1 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
2 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
3 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
5 o Directory authority changes:
6 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9 o Minor features (geoip):
10 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
13 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
14 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
15 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
16 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
17 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
18 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
20 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
21 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
22 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
24 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
25 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
26 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
27 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
28 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
30 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
31 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
32 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
34 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
35 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
36 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
37 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
38 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
39 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
42 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
43 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
44 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
46 o Directory authority changes:
47 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
50 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
51 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
52 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
53 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
54 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
56 o Minor features (continuous integration):
57 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
58 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
59 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
61 o Minor features (geoip):
62 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
63 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
65 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
66 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
67 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
68 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
69 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
70 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
72 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
73 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
74 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
75 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
76 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
77 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
78 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
79 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
81 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
82 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
83 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
84 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
87 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
88 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
89 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
90 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
91 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
93 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
94 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
95 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
97 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
98 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
99 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
101 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
102 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
103 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
104 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
108 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
109 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
110 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
112 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
113 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
114 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
115 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
116 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
117 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
119 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
120 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
122 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
123 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
124 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
125 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
126 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
128 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
129 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
130 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
131 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
132 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
134 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
135 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
136 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
137 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
139 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
140 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
141 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
142 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
144 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
145 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
146 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
148 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
149 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
150 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
153 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
154 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
157 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
158 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
159 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
160 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
161 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
162 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
164 o Minor features (geoip):
165 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
166 database. Closes ticket 26104.
168 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
169 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
170 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
173 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
174 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
175 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
176 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
177 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
179 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
180 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
181 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
182 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
183 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
186 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
187 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
188 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
190 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
191 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
192 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
193 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
194 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
195 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
196 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
198 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
199 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort tuned off.
200 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
202 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
203 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
204 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
207 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
208 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
209 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
210 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
211 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
212 other small features and bugfixes.
214 o New system requirements:
215 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
216 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
217 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
218 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
220 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
221 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
222 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
223 To disable the module, the configure option
224 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
225 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
227 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
228 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
229 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
230 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
231 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
232 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
233 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
234 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
235 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
236 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
237 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket
239 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
240 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
241 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
242 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
243 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
244 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
245 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
246 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
247 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
248 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
249 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
250 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
251 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
252 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
253 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
254 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
255 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
256 Tor's uptime (26009).
258 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
259 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
260 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
261 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
262 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
264 o Major bugfixes (crash):
265 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
266 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
267 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
269 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
270 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
271 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
272 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
274 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
275 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
276 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
278 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
279 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
280 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
281 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
282 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
283 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
284 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
285 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
286 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
287 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
288 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
289 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
290 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
291 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
293 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
294 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
295 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
298 o Minor features (accounting):
299 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
300 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
301 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
302 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
304 o Minor features (code quality):
305 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
306 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
309 o Minor features (compatibility):
310 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
311 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
312 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
313 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
316 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
317 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
318 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
319 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
320 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
321 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
323 o Minor features (configuration):
324 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
325 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
326 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
327 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
328 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
330 o Minor features (continuous integration):
331 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
332 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
333 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
334 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
335 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
337 o Minor features (control port):
338 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
339 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
340 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
341 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
342 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
343 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
344 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
345 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
346 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
347 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
349 o Minor features (directory authority):
350 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
351 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
354 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
355 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
356 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
357 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
359 o Minor features (entry guards):
360 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
361 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
363 o Minor features (geoip):
364 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
365 database. Closes ticket 26104.
367 o Minor features (performance):
368 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
369 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
370 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
371 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
373 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
374 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
376 o Minor features (testing):
377 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
378 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
380 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
381 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
382 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
383 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
384 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
385 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
387 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
388 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
389 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
390 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
391 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
393 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
394 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
395 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
396 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
397 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
398 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
400 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
401 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
402 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
403 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
405 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
406 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
407 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
408 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
409 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
412 o Minor bugfixes (client):
413 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
414 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
417 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
418 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
419 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
420 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
421 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
423 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
424 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
425 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
426 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
427 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
429 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
430 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
431 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
432 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
433 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
435 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
436 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
437 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
438 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
439 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
441 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
442 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
443 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
444 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
445 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
446 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
449 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
450 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
451 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
452 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
453 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
456 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
457 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
458 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
459 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
460 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
461 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
462 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
464 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
465 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
466 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
468 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
469 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
470 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
471 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
472 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
473 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
474 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
476 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
477 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
478 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
479 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
480 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
481 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
483 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
484 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
485 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
488 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
489 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
490 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
491 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
493 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
494 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
495 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
496 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
497 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
498 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
499 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
501 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
502 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort tuned off.
503 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
505 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
506 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
507 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
508 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
510 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
511 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
512 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
513 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
514 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
515 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
516 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
517 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
519 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
520 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
521 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
522 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
523 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
524 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
525 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
527 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
528 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
529 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
530 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
531 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
533 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
534 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
535 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
538 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
539 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
540 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
541 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
542 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
543 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
545 o Code simplification and refactoring:
546 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
547 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
548 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
549 - We remove the PortForwsrding and PortForwardingHelper options,
550 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
551 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
552 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
554 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
555 confusing we renamed some functions and
556 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
557 router_should_check_reachability() and
558 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
559 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
560 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
561 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
562 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
564 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
565 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
567 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
568 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
569 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
570 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
571 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
572 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
573 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
574 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
575 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
576 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
577 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
578 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
579 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
580 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
581 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
582 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
583 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
585 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
586 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
587 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
588 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
589 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
590 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
591 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
592 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
593 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
594 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
595 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
596 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
597 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
598 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
600 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
601 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
602 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
603 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
604 before. Closes ticket 26016.
605 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
606 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
607 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
608 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
610 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
611 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
612 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
613 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
615 o Deprecated features:
616 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
617 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
618 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
619 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
620 key if the want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
621 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
624 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
625 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
628 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
629 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
630 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
631 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
632 24378 and proposal 290.
633 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
634 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
635 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
636 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
637 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
638 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
639 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
640 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
641 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
642 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
643 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
644 their local router. Closes 25409.
645 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
646 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
647 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
648 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
649 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
650 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
651 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
652 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
653 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
657 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
658 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
659 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
661 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
662 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
663 be nearly identical to this one.
665 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
666 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
667 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
668 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
669 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
670 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
672 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
673 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
674 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
675 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
676 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
677 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
678 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
680 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
681 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
682 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
684 o Minor features (config options):
685 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
686 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
687 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
690 o Minor features (geoip):
691 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
692 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
694 o Minor bugfixes (client):
695 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
696 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
697 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
698 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
699 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
701 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
702 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
703 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
704 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
706 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
707 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
708 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
709 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
710 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
711 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
712 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
714 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
715 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
716 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
717 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
718 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
719 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
720 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
722 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
723 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
724 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
725 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
726 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
728 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
729 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
730 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
732 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
733 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
734 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
736 o Code simplification and refactoring:
737 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
738 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
740 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
741 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
742 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
746 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
747 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
748 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
749 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
751 o New system requirements:
752 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
753 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
755 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
756 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
757 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
758 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
759 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
761 o Minor features (geoip):
762 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
763 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
765 o Minor features (log messages):
766 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
767 information about memory usage from the different compression
768 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
770 o Minor features (sandbox):
771 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
772 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
773 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
775 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
776 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
777 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
778 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
780 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
781 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
782 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
784 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
785 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
786 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
787 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
789 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
790 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
791 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
792 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
794 o Major bugfixes (networking):
795 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
796 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
797 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
799 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
800 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
801 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
803 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
804 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
805 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
806 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
807 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
808 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
810 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
811 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
812 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
813 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
815 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
816 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
817 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
818 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
820 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
821 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
822 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
823 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
826 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
827 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
828 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
829 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
830 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
832 o Code simplification and refactoring:
833 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
834 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
838 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
840 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
841 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
844 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
845 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
848 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
849 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
851 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
852 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
854 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
857 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
858 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
859 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
861 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
862 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
863 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
864 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
867 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
868 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
869 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
870 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
873 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
874 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
875 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
876 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
877 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
878 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
879 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
880 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
881 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
882 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
883 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
884 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
885 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
887 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
888 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
889 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
891 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
892 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
893 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
894 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
895 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
896 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
897 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
899 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
900 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
901 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
903 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
904 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
905 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
906 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
907 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
908 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
909 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
911 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
912 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
913 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
914 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
916 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
917 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
918 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
919 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
921 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
922 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
923 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
924 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
925 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
928 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
929 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
930 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
931 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
932 information. Closes ticket 24801.
933 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
934 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
935 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
936 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
938 o Minor features (geoip):
939 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
942 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
943 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
944 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
945 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
946 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
948 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
949 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
950 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
951 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
952 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
954 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
955 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
956 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
957 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
958 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
961 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
962 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
963 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
964 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
965 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
966 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
967 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
968 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
969 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
970 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
971 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
974 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
975 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
976 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
978 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
979 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
980 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
983 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
984 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
985 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
986 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
987 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
988 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
989 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
991 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
992 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
993 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
994 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
995 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
996 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
997 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
998 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
999 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
1002 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
1003 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
1004 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
1005 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
1006 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
1007 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1009 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
1010 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
1011 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
1012 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1014 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
1015 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
1016 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
1017 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
1018 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
1021 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
1022 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
1023 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
1024 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
1025 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
1026 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1028 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
1029 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
1030 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
1031 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
1032 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
1033 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
1034 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
1035 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
1036 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
1037 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1038 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
1039 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
1041 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
1042 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
1043 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
1044 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1046 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
1047 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
1048 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
1049 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1051 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
1052 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
1053 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
1054 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
1057 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
1058 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
1059 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
1060 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
1061 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
1063 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
1064 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
1066 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
1067 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1069 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
1070 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
1071 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
1074 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
1075 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
1078 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
1079 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
1081 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
1082 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
1084 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
1087 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
1088 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
1089 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
1091 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
1092 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
1093 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
1094 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
1097 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
1098 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
1099 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
1100 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
1101 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
1102 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
1103 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
1104 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
1105 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
1106 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
1107 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
1108 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
1109 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
1111 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
1112 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
1113 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
1114 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
1115 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
1116 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
1117 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
1118 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
1119 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
1121 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
1122 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
1123 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
1124 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
1125 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
1126 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
1127 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
1129 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
1130 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
1131 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
1132 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
1134 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
1135 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
1136 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
1137 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
1138 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
1139 Closes ticket 24978.
1141 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
1142 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
1143 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
1144 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
1146 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
1147 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
1148 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
1149 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
1150 information. Closes ticket 24801.
1151 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
1152 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
1153 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
1154 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
1156 o Minor features (geoip):
1157 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1160 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1161 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
1162 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
1164 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
1165 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
1166 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
1167 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
1168 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
1170 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
1171 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
1172 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
1173 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
1174 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
1176 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
1177 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
1178 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
1179 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
1180 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
1183 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1184 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
1185 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
1187 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1188 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
1189 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
1192 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
1193 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
1194 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
1195 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
1196 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
1197 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
1198 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
1200 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
1201 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
1202 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
1203 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
1204 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
1207 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
1208 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
1209 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
1210 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
1211 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
1212 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1214 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
1215 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
1216 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
1217 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1219 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
1220 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
1221 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
1222 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
1223 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
1224 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
1225 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
1226 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
1227 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
1228 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1229 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
1230 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
1232 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
1233 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
1234 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
1235 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
1238 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1239 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
1240 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
1241 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
1242 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
1244 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
1245 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
1247 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
1248 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1251 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
1252 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
1253 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
1256 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
1257 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
1259 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
1260 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
1261 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
1262 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
1263 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
1264 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
1267 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
1268 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
1270 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
1273 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
1274 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
1275 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
1276 the DoS mitigations.)
1278 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
1279 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
1280 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
1281 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
1284 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
1285 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
1286 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
1287 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1289 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
1290 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
1291 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
1292 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
1293 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
1294 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
1295 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
1296 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
1297 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
1298 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
1299 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
1300 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
1301 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
1303 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
1304 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
1305 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
1306 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
1307 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
1308 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
1309 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
1310 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
1311 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
1312 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
1313 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1315 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
1316 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
1317 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1319 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
1320 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
1321 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
1322 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
1323 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
1324 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
1325 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1327 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
1328 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
1329 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
1330 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1332 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
1333 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
1334 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
1335 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
1337 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
1338 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
1339 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
1340 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
1341 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
1342 Closes ticket 24978.
1344 o Minor features (geoip):
1345 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1348 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
1349 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
1350 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
1353 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
1354 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
1355 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
1356 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
1357 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
1359 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
1360 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
1361 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
1362 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
1363 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
1364 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
1365 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
1367 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
1368 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
1369 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
1370 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
1371 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
1373 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
1374 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
1375 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
1376 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1378 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
1379 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
1380 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
1381 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
1382 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1384 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
1385 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
1386 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
1387 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1389 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
1390 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
1391 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
1392 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1394 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
1395 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
1396 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
1397 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1399 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
1400 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
1402 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
1403 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1405 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
1406 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
1407 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
1409 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
1410 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
1411 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
1412 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
1413 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1415 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
1416 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
1417 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
1419 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
1420 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
1421 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
1425 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
1426 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
1427 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
1428 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
1430 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
1431 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
1432 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
1433 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
1434 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
1435 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1437 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
1440 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
1441 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
1442 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
1443 the DoS mitigations.)
1445 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
1446 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
1447 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
1448 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
1451 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
1452 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
1453 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
1454 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
1455 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
1456 Closes ticket 24978.
1458 o Minor features (logging):
1459 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
1460 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
1462 o Minor features (testing):
1463 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
1466 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
1467 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
1468 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
1469 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
1470 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
1471 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
1472 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
1474 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
1475 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
1476 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
1477 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1478 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
1479 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
1482 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
1483 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
1484 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
1485 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
1487 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
1488 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
1489 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
1490 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
1491 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
1494 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
1495 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
1497 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
1498 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1500 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
1501 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
1502 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1503 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
1505 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1506 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
1507 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
1510 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
1511 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
1512 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
1513 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
1514 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
1515 it to older supported release series.
1517 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
1518 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
1519 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
1520 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
1521 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
1522 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
1523 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
1524 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
1525 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
1526 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
1527 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
1528 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
1529 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
1531 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
1532 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
1533 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
1534 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
1535 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
1536 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
1537 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
1538 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1540 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
1541 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
1542 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1544 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
1545 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
1546 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
1547 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1549 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
1550 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
1551 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
1552 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
1554 o Minor features (directory authority):
1555 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
1556 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
1558 o Minor features (geoip):
1559 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1562 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
1563 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
1564 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
1567 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
1568 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
1569 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
1570 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
1571 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
1573 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
1574 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
1575 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
1576 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
1577 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
1579 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
1580 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
1581 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
1582 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
1584 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
1585 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
1586 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
1587 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
1588 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
1590 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
1591 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
1592 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
1593 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1595 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1596 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
1597 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
1598 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1599 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
1600 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
1601 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
1603 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1604 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
1605 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
1606 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
1607 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1608 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
1609 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
1610 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
1612 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
1613 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
1614 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
1615 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
1616 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
1617 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
1618 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1620 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
1621 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
1622 would call the Rust implementation of
1623 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
1624 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
1625 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
1626 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
1627 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1629 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
1630 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
1631 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
1634 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
1635 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
1636 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
1637 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
1638 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
1639 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
1641 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
1642 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
1643 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
1644 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
1645 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1647 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1648 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
1650 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
1651 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
1652 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
1655 o Documentation (man page):
1656 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
1657 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
1661 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
1662 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
1663 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
1664 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
1665 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
1666 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
1669 o Major features (embedding):
1670 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
1671 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
1672 Closes ticket 23684.
1673 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
1674 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
1675 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
1676 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
1677 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
1678 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
1680 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
1681 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
1682 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
1683 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
1684 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
1685 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
1686 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
1687 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
1688 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
1689 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
1690 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
1693 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
1694 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
1695 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
1696 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
1697 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
1698 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
1699 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
1701 o Major features (onion services):
1702 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
1703 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
1704 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
1705 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
1706 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
1709 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
1710 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
1711 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
1712 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
1713 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
1714 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
1715 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
1716 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
1718 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
1719 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
1720 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
1721 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
1722 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
1724 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
1725 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
1726 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
1727 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
1728 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
1729 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
1730 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1732 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
1733 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
1734 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
1735 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
1736 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
1737 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
1738 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
1739 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
1740 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
1741 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
1742 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1744 o Major bugfixes (relays):
1745 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
1746 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
1747 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
1748 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
1749 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
1750 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1752 o Minor feature (IPv6):
1753 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
1754 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
1755 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
1756 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
1757 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
1758 Implements ticket 23827.
1760 o Minor features (cleanup):
1761 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
1762 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
1764 o Minor features (defensive programming):
1765 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
1766 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
1767 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
1768 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
1769 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
1770 once. Part of ticket 24337.
1771 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
1772 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
1773 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
1775 o Minor features (embedding):
1776 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
1777 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
1778 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
1779 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
1780 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
1781 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
1782 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
1783 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
1784 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
1785 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
1786 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
1787 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
1788 Closes ticket 23848.
1789 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
1790 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
1791 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
1793 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
1794 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
1795 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
1796 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
1797 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
1798 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
1799 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
1800 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
1803 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
1804 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
1805 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
1806 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
1807 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
1808 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
1809 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
1811 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
1812 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
1813 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
1814 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
1815 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
1816 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
1817 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
1818 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
1819 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
1820 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
1821 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
1822 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
1824 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
1825 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
1826 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
1828 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
1829 Implements ticket 24791.
1831 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
1832 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
1833 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
1834 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
1835 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
1836 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
1838 o Minor features (heartbeat):
1839 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
1840 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
1843 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
1844 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
1845 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
1846 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
1847 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
1849 o Minor features (log messages):
1850 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
1851 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
1852 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
1853 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
1855 o Minor features (logging, android):
1856 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
1859 o Minor features (performance):
1860 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
1861 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
1862 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
1863 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
1865 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
1866 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
1867 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
1868 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
1869 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
1870 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
1871 Implements ticket 24374.
1873 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
1874 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
1875 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
1876 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
1877 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
1879 o Minor features (performance, windows):
1880 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
1881 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
1882 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
1885 o Major features (relay):
1886 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
1887 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
1888 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
1889 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
1890 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
1892 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
1893 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
1894 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
1895 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
1896 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
1897 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
1898 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
1899 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
1900 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
1902 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
1903 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
1904 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
1905 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
1907 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
1908 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
1909 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
1910 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
1911 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
1912 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
1913 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1914 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
1915 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
1916 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
1917 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
1918 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
1921 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
1922 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
1923 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
1924 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
1927 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
1928 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
1929 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
1932 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
1933 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
1934 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
1936 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
1937 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1938 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
1939 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
1940 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
1942 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
1943 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
1944 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
1945 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1947 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
1948 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
1949 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
1950 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
1951 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
1952 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
1954 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1955 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
1956 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
1957 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
1959 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
1960 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
1961 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
1962 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
1963 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1964 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
1967 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
1968 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
1969 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
1970 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1972 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
1973 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
1974 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
1975 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1977 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
1978 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
1979 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
1980 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
1981 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
1982 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1983 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
1984 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
1985 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
1986 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
1987 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
1988 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1990 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1991 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
1992 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1993 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
1994 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
1996 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1997 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
1999 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
2000 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
2001 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
2002 "aruna1234" and teor.
2003 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
2004 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
2005 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
2006 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
2008 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
2009 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
2010 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
2011 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
2012 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
2013 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
2014 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
2015 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
2016 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
2017 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
2019 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
2020 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
2023 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
2024 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
2026 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
2027 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
2028 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
2029 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
2030 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
2031 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
2034 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
2035 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
2036 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
2037 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
2038 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
2040 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
2041 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
2042 adding very little except for unit test.
2044 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
2045 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
2046 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
2047 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
2049 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
2050 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
2051 const. Implements ticket 24489.
2054 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
2055 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
2057 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
2058 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
2059 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
2060 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
2061 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
2062 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
2064 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
2065 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
2066 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
2067 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
2068 with the 0.2.9 series.
2070 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
2071 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2073 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
2074 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
2075 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
2076 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
2077 information. Closes ticket 24801.
2078 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
2079 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
2080 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
2081 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
2083 o Minor features (geoip):
2084 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2087 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
2088 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
2089 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
2090 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
2091 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
2094 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2095 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
2096 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2098 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
2099 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
2100 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
2101 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
2105 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
2106 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
2107 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
2108 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
2109 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
2110 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
2111 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
2113 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
2114 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
2115 will be nearly identical to this.
2117 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
2118 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
2119 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
2120 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
2121 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
2122 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
2123 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2125 o Minor features (geoip):
2126 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
2129 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
2130 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
2131 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
2132 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2134 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
2135 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
2136 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
2137 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
2138 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
2141 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
2142 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
2143 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
2144 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
2145 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
2146 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2149 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
2150 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
2151 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
2153 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
2154 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
2155 be nearly identical to this.
2157 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
2158 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
2159 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
2160 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
2161 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
2162 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
2163 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
2165 o Minor features (logging):
2166 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
2169 o Minor features (portability):
2170 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
2171 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
2174 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
2175 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
2176 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
2177 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
2178 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2179 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
2180 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
2181 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
2182 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2183 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
2184 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
2185 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
2186 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2188 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2189 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
2190 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
2192 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
2193 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
2194 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
2195 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
2196 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
2197 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
2198 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
2201 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
2202 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
2203 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
2204 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
2205 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
2206 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
2207 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2209 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
2210 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
2211 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
2212 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
2213 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
2214 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
2215 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
2216 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2217 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
2218 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
2219 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2222 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
2223 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
2224 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
2225 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
2228 o Major bugfixes (security):
2229 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
2230 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
2231 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
2232 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
2233 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
2234 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
2235 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
2236 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
2237 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
2238 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
2240 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
2241 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
2242 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
2243 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
2244 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
2245 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
2246 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
2249 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
2250 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
2251 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
2252 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
2253 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
2255 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
2256 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
2257 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
2258 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
2259 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2260 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
2261 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
2262 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
2263 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
2265 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
2266 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
2267 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
2268 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
2270 o Minor features (directory authority):
2271 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
2274 o Minor bugfixes (client):
2275 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
2276 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
2277 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2280 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
2281 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
2282 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
2283 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
2285 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
2286 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
2287 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
2288 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
2289 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
2290 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
2291 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
2292 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
2293 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
2294 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
2295 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
2297 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
2298 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
2299 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
2300 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
2301 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
2302 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
2303 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
2306 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
2307 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
2308 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
2309 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
2310 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
2312 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
2313 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
2314 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
2315 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
2316 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2317 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
2318 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
2319 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
2320 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
2322 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
2323 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
2324 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
2325 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
2326 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
2327 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
2330 o Minor features (bridge):
2331 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
2332 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
2333 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
2334 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
2337 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
2338 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
2341 o Minor features (geoip):
2342 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
2345 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
2346 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
2347 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
2348 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
2349 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2351 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
2352 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
2353 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2355 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
2356 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
2357 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
2358 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
2359 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
2360 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2362 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
2363 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
2364 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
2367 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
2368 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
2369 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
2370 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
2371 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2374 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
2375 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
2376 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
2377 to another of the releases coming out today.
2379 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
2380 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
2381 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
2383 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
2384 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
2385 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
2386 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
2387 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
2388 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
2389 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
2390 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
2391 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
2392 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
2393 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
2395 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
2396 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
2397 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
2398 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
2399 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
2400 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
2401 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
2404 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
2405 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
2406 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
2407 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
2408 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
2410 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
2411 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
2412 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
2413 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
2414 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2415 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
2416 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
2417 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
2418 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
2420 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
2421 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
2422 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
2423 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
2424 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
2425 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
2428 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
2429 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
2430 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
2431 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
2432 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
2433 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
2435 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
2436 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
2437 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
2438 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
2439 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
2442 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
2443 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
2446 o Minor features (geoip):
2447 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
2450 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
2451 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
2452 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
2453 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
2454 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2456 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
2457 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
2458 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2460 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
2461 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
2462 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
2463 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
2464 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
2465 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2467 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
2468 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
2469 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
2470 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
2471 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2473 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
2474 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
2475 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
2478 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
2479 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
2480 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
2481 to another of the releases coming out today.
2483 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
2484 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
2485 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
2486 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
2487 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
2488 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
2491 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
2492 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
2493 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
2494 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
2495 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
2496 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
2497 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
2498 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
2499 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
2500 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
2501 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
2503 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
2504 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
2505 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
2506 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
2507 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
2508 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
2509 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
2512 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
2513 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
2514 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
2515 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
2516 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
2518 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
2519 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
2520 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
2521 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
2522 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2523 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
2525 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
2526 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
2527 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
2528 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
2529 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
2532 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
2533 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
2536 o Minor features (geoip):
2537 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
2540 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
2541 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
2542 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
2543 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
2544 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
2545 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
2547 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
2548 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
2549 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
2550 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
2551 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2553 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
2554 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
2555 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2557 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
2558 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
2559 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
2560 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
2561 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
2562 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2564 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
2565 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
2566 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
2567 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
2568 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2570 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
2571 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
2572 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
2575 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
2576 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
2577 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
2578 to another of the releases coming out today.
2580 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
2581 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
2582 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
2584 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
2585 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
2586 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
2587 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
2588 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
2589 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
2590 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
2591 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
2592 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
2593 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
2594 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
2595 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
2596 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
2597 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
2598 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
2601 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
2602 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
2603 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
2604 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
2605 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
2607 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
2608 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
2609 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
2610 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
2611 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
2614 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
2615 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
2616 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
2617 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
2618 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
2621 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
2622 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
2625 o Minor features (geoip):
2626 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
2629 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
2630 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
2631 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
2634 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
2635 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
2636 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
2637 to another of the releases coming out today.
2639 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
2640 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
2641 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
2643 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
2644 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
2645 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
2646 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
2647 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
2648 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
2649 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
2650 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
2651 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
2652 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
2653 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
2654 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
2655 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
2656 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
2657 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
2660 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
2661 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
2662 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
2663 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
2664 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2665 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
2667 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
2668 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
2669 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
2670 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
2671 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
2674 o Minor features (geoip):
2675 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
2679 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
2680 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
2681 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
2682 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
2683 since the 0.3.0.x series.
2685 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
2686 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
2689 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
2690 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
2691 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
2692 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
2693 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
2694 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
2695 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
2696 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
2697 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
2698 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
2699 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
2702 o Minor features (directory authority):
2703 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
2704 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
2705 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
2706 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
2708 o Minor features (geoip):
2709 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
2712 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2713 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
2714 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
2716 o Minor features (logging):
2717 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
2718 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
2720 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
2721 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
2723 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2724 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
2725 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
2726 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
2727 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
2728 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
2729 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
2730 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
2732 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2733 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
2734 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
2737 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
2738 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
2739 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
2740 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
2742 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
2743 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
2744 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2745 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
2746 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
2747 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
2748 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
2749 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
2750 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
2753 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2754 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
2755 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2756 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
2757 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
2758 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
2759 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
2761 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
2762 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
2763 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
2764 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
2765 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
2766 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2768 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2769 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
2770 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
2771 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
2772 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2773 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
2774 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
2776 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
2777 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
2778 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2780 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
2781 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
2782 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
2783 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
2784 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
2785 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
2786 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
2787 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
2790 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
2791 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
2792 section. Closes ticket 24254.
2795 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
2796 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
2797 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
2798 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
2801 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
2802 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
2803 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
2804 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
2805 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
2806 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
2809 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
2810 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
2811 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
2812 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
2813 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2815 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
2816 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
2817 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
2818 Closes ticket 23753.
2820 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
2821 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
2822 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
2823 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
2824 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
2826 o Minor features (testing):
2827 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
2828 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
2830 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
2831 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
2832 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
2833 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
2834 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2836 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
2837 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
2838 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
2839 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
2840 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
2843 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
2844 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
2845 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
2846 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
2847 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2849 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
2850 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
2851 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
2852 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2854 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
2855 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
2856 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
2858 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
2859 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2860 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
2862 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2863 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
2864 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
2865 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2866 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
2867 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2869 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
2870 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
2871 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
2872 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
2873 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
2874 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
2875 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
2876 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
2877 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
2878 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2879 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
2880 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
2882 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
2883 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
2884 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
2885 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
2886 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2888 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2889 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
2890 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
2891 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
2892 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
2893 Closes ticket 24109.
2896 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
2897 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
2898 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
2899 directory authority, Bastet.
2901 o Directory authority changes:
2902 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
2903 Closes ticket 23910.
2904 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
2905 Closes ticket 23592.
2907 o Minor features (bridge):
2908 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
2909 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
2910 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
2911 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
2912 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
2913 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
2914 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
2916 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
2917 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
2918 Resolves ticket 23670.
2920 o Minor features (geoip):
2921 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
2924 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
2925 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
2926 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
2927 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2929 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
2930 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
2931 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2933 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
2934 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
2935 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
2936 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
2937 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
2938 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2940 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
2941 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
2942 only fetch the service descriptor once.
2943 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
2944 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
2945 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2947 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
2948 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
2949 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
2950 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
2952 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
2953 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
2954 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2956 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
2957 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
2958 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
2959 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
2960 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
2962 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
2963 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
2964 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
2966 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2967 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
2968 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
2971 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2972 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
2973 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
2974 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
2975 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2976 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
2977 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
2978 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
2980 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
2981 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
2982 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
2983 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
2984 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
2987 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
2988 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
2989 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
2990 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
2991 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
2995 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
2996 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
2997 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
2999 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
3000 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
3001 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
3003 o Directory authority changes:
3004 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
3005 Closes ticket 23910.
3006 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
3007 Closes ticket 23592.
3009 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
3010 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
3011 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
3012 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
3013 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
3015 o Minor features (geoip):
3016 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3019 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
3020 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
3021 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
3022 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
3023 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
3024 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
3025 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
3026 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
3027 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
3029 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
3030 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
3031 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
3032 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
3033 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
3034 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
3035 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
3036 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
3037 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
3040 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
3041 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
3042 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
3043 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
3045 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
3046 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
3047 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
3049 o Directory authority changes:
3050 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
3051 Closes ticket 23910.
3052 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
3053 Closes ticket 23592.
3055 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3056 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
3057 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
3058 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3060 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3061 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
3062 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
3063 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
3064 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
3066 o Minor features (geoip):
3067 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3071 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
3072 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
3073 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
3074 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
3076 o Directory authority changes:
3077 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
3078 Closes ticket 23910.
3079 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
3080 Closes ticket 23592.
3082 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3083 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
3084 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
3085 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3087 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3088 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
3089 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
3090 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
3091 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
3093 o Minor features (geoip):
3094 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3097 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
3098 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
3099 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
3100 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
3101 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
3102 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
3103 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
3104 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
3107 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
3108 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
3109 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3111 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
3112 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
3113 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
3114 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
3115 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
3116 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
3117 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
3120 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
3121 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
3122 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
3123 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
3125 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
3126 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
3127 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
3129 o Directory authority changes:
3130 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
3131 Closes ticket 23910.
3132 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
3133 Closes ticket 23592.
3135 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3136 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
3137 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
3138 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3140 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3141 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
3142 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
3143 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
3144 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
3146 o Minor features (geoip):
3147 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3150 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
3151 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
3152 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
3153 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
3154 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
3155 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
3156 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
3157 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
3160 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3161 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
3162 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
3163 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3165 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
3166 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
3167 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3169 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
3170 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
3171 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
3172 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
3173 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
3174 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
3175 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
3178 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
3179 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
3180 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
3181 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
3182 a new directory authority, Bastet.
3184 o Directory authority changes:
3185 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
3186 Closes ticket 23910.
3187 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
3188 Closes ticket 23592.
3190 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3191 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
3192 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
3193 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3195 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3196 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
3197 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
3198 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
3199 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
3201 o Minor features (geoip):
3202 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3205 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3206 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
3207 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
3208 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
3210 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3211 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
3212 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
3215 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
3216 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
3217 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
3219 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3220 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
3221 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
3222 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3224 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
3225 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
3226 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3228 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3229 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
3230 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
3234 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
3235 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
3236 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
3237 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
3238 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
3239 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
3241 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
3242 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
3243 include better testing and logging.
3245 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
3248 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
3249 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
3250 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
3251 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3253 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
3254 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
3255 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
3256 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
3257 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
3258 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
3259 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3261 o Minor features (build, compilation):
3262 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
3263 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
3264 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
3265 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
3266 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
3267 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
3268 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
3269 Closes ticket 23643.
3271 o Minor features (directory authorities):
3272 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
3273 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
3274 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
3275 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
3277 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
3278 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
3279 the circuit identifier(s).
3280 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
3281 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
3283 o Minor features (logging):
3284 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
3285 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
3286 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
3287 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
3288 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
3290 o Minor features (relay):
3291 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
3292 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
3293 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
3294 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
3296 o Minor features (robustness):
3297 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
3298 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
3300 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
3301 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
3302 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
3303 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
3304 related to ticket 23080.
3306 o Minor features (testing):
3307 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
3308 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
3311 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
3312 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
3313 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
3315 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
3316 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
3319 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
3320 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
3321 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
3322 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
3323 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
3324 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
3325 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
3326 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
3327 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3329 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
3330 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
3331 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
3334 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
3335 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
3336 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
3337 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3339 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
3340 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
3341 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
3342 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
3343 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3344 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
3345 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
3346 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
3349 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
3350 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
3351 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
3352 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3354 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
3355 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
3356 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
3357 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
3358 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
3359 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3361 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
3362 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
3363 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
3364 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3365 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
3366 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
3367 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3368 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
3369 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3370 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
3371 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
3373 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
3374 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
3375 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
3376 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3377 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
3378 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3380 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3381 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
3382 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
3384 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
3385 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
3387 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
3388 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
3389 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3391 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3392 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
3393 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
3396 o Deprecated features:
3397 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
3398 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
3399 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
3402 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
3403 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3404 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
3405 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
3406 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
3407 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
3408 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
3409 Closes ticket 18736.
3412 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
3413 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
3414 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
3415 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
3416 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
3417 features and bugfixes here.
3419 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
3421 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
3422 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
3423 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
3424 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
3425 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
3426 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
3427 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
3428 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
3429 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
3430 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
3431 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
3432 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
3434 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
3435 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
3436 more information, see the design paper at
3437 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
3438 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
3439 Closes ticket 12541.
3441 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
3442 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
3443 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
3444 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
3445 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
3446 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
3449 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
3450 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
3452 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
3455 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
3458 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
3460 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
3462 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
3464 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
3465 they are 56 characters long, as in
3466 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
3468 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
3469 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
3470 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
3471 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
3472 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
3475 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
3476 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
3477 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
3478 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
3479 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
3480 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
3483 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
3484 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
3485 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
3486 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
3488 o Minor features (bug detection):
3489 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
3490 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
3491 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
3493 o Minor features (client):
3494 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
3495 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
3496 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
3497 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
3498 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
3499 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
3500 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
3501 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
3502 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
3503 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
3505 o Minor features (command line):
3506 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
3507 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
3508 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
3510 o Minor features (control port):
3511 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
3512 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
3513 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
3515 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
3516 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
3518 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
3519 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
3520 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
3521 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
3522 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
3523 Closes ticket 23237.
3524 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
3525 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
3527 o Minor features (development support):
3528 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
3529 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
3530 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
3531 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
3532 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
3533 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
3535 o Minor features (ed25519):
3536 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
3537 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
3538 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
3540 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
3541 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
3542 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
3544 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
3545 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
3546 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
3547 another program, regardless of the settings of
3548 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
3549 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
3550 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
3552 o Minor features (logging):
3553 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
3554 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
3555 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
3557 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
3558 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
3560 o Minor features (portability):
3561 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
3562 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
3563 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
3564 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
3566 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
3567 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
3568 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
3569 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
3570 results. Closes ticket 22731.
3572 o Minor features (startup, safety):
3573 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
3574 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
3577 o Minor features (static analysis):
3578 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
3579 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
3582 o Minor features (testing):
3583 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
3584 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
3585 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
3586 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
3587 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
3589 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
3590 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
3591 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
3592 Coverity as CID 1415728.
3594 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
3595 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
3596 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
3597 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
3598 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
3599 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
3600 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
3601 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3603 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
3604 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
3605 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
3606 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
3607 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3608 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
3609 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
3610 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
3612 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3613 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
3614 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3616 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
3617 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
3618 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
3619 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
3621 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
3622 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
3623 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
3624 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
3625 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
3626 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
3628 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
3629 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
3632 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
3633 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
3634 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
3635 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3637 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
3638 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
3639 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
3640 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
3641 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
3642 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
3643 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
3646 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
3647 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
3648 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
3649 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3651 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
3652 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
3653 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
3655 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3656 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
3657 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
3658 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
3659 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
3660 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
3662 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
3663 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
3664 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
3666 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
3667 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
3668 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
3670 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
3671 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
3672 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
3673 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
3675 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
3676 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
3677 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3679 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
3680 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
3681 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
3682 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
3683 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
3684 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
3685 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
3686 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3688 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
3689 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
3690 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
3691 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
3692 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
3693 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
3694 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3696 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
3697 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
3698 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
3699 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3701 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3702 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
3703 function from the general code to handle channel state
3704 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
3705 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
3706 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
3707 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
3708 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
3709 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
3710 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
3711 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
3713 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
3714 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
3716 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
3717 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
3718 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
3719 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
3720 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
3721 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
3722 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
3723 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
3724 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
3725 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
3726 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
3727 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
3729 o Deprecated features:
3730 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
3731 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
3732 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
3736 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
3737 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
3738 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
3739 Closes ticket 15645.
3740 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
3741 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
3742 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
3743 file. Closes ticket 21148.
3746 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
3747 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
3748 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
3749 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
3750 Closes ticket 21031.
3751 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
3752 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
3755 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
3756 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
3759 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
3760 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
3761 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
3762 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
3764 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
3765 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
3766 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
3767 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
3769 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
3770 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
3771 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
3772 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
3773 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
3776 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3779 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
3780 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
3781 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
3784 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
3785 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
3786 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
3787 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
3788 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
3789 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
3790 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
3791 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
3792 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
3794 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
3795 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
3796 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
3797 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
3798 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
3799 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
3800 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
3801 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
3802 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
3805 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
3806 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
3809 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
3810 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
3811 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
3812 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
3814 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
3815 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
3816 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
3817 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
3818 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
3819 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
3820 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
3822 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
3823 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
3824 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
3825 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
3827 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
3828 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
3829 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3831 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
3832 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
3833 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3834 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
3836 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
3837 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
3838 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
3839 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
3840 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
3842 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
3843 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
3844 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
3845 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
3847 o Minor features (geoip):
3848 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3851 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
3852 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
3853 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
3854 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
3856 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
3857 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
3858 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3859 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
3860 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3861 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
3862 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
3863 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3865 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
3866 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
3867 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3869 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
3870 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
3871 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
3874 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
3875 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
3876 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
3877 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
3878 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3880 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
3881 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
3882 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
3883 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
3884 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
3885 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3887 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
3888 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
3889 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
3890 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
3891 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
3892 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
3893 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
3894 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
3895 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
3897 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
3898 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
3899 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
3900 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3902 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
3903 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
3904 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3906 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
3907 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
3908 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
3909 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
3910 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3912 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
3913 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
3914 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
3917 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
3918 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
3919 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
3920 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
3921 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
3923 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
3924 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
3925 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
3926 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
3927 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
3928 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
3929 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
3930 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
3931 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
3934 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
3935 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
3938 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
3939 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
3940 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
3941 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
3943 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
3944 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
3945 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
3946 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
3949 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3952 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
3953 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
3954 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3956 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
3957 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
3958 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
3959 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
3960 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3962 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
3963 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
3964 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
3965 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3967 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
3968 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
3969 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
3971 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
3972 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
3973 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
3974 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
3977 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
3978 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
3980 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
3981 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
3982 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
3983 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
3984 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
3985 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
3986 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
3988 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
3989 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
3990 disabled. For more information, see
3991 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
3993 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
3994 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
3995 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
3996 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
3997 with the 0.2.9 series.
3999 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
4000 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
4002 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
4003 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
4004 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
4005 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
4006 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
4008 o Minor features (defensive programming):
4009 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
4010 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
4011 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
4014 o Minor features (diagnostic):
4015 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
4016 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
4017 attempt for bug 23105.
4019 o Minor features (geoip):
4020 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4023 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4024 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
4025 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
4027 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4028 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
4029 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
4030 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
4031 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4033 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4034 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
4035 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
4036 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4038 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
4039 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
4040 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
4044 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
4045 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
4046 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
4047 Windows directory caches.
4049 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
4050 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
4051 will be nearly identical to it.
4053 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
4054 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
4055 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
4056 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
4057 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
4058 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4060 o Minor features (directory authority):
4061 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
4062 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
4063 Closes ticket 22348.
4065 o Minor features (geoip):
4066 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4069 o Minor features (testing):
4070 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
4073 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
4074 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
4075 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4077 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
4078 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
4079 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
4080 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
4081 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
4082 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
4083 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
4084 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
4085 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
4086 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4088 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
4089 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
4090 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
4092 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
4093 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
4094 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
4095 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
4097 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4098 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
4099 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
4100 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
4101 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4103 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
4104 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
4105 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
4106 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
4107 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
4108 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
4110 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
4111 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
4112 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
4113 with the clang static analyzer.
4115 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4116 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
4117 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
4118 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
4119 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
4122 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
4123 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
4124 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
4125 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
4126 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
4127 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4128 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
4131 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
4132 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
4133 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
4134 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
4136 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4137 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
4138 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
4139 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
4140 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
4141 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
4142 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
4143 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
4144 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
4146 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
4147 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
4148 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4149 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
4151 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4152 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
4153 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
4154 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
4155 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
4157 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4158 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4161 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
4162 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
4163 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
4164 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
4166 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4167 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
4168 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4169 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
4170 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4171 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
4172 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
4173 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
4176 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
4177 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
4178 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
4181 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4182 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
4183 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
4184 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
4185 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
4186 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4188 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
4189 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
4190 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
4191 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4193 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4194 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
4195 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4197 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
4198 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
4199 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4202 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
4203 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
4204 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
4205 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
4206 next version will be a release candidate.
4208 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
4209 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
4210 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
4211 one of those versions should upgrade.
4213 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
4214 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
4215 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
4216 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
4217 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
4218 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
4219 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
4220 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
4221 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
4223 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
4224 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
4225 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
4226 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
4227 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
4229 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
4230 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
4231 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
4232 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
4233 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
4234 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4236 o Minor features (bridge authority):
4237 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
4238 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
4240 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
4241 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
4242 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
4243 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
4244 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
4247 o Minor features (geoip):
4248 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4251 o Minor features (relay, performance):
4252 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
4253 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
4254 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
4255 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
4256 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
4259 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
4260 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
4261 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
4262 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
4263 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
4265 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
4266 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
4267 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
4268 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
4269 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4271 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
4272 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
4273 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4274 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
4275 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4276 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
4277 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
4278 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4279 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
4280 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
4281 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
4284 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
4285 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
4286 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
4287 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
4288 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
4289 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4291 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
4292 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
4293 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
4294 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
4295 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
4296 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
4297 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
4298 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
4301 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
4302 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
4303 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
4306 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
4307 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
4308 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
4309 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4311 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4312 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
4313 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4315 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
4316 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
4317 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
4318 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
4320 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
4321 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
4322 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
4323 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
4324 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4325 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
4326 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4329 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
4330 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
4331 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
4332 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
4333 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
4336 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
4337 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
4341 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
4342 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
4343 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
4344 close ticket 22623.)
4346 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
4347 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
4348 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
4349 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
4350 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
4351 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
4353 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
4354 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
4355 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
4356 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4358 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
4359 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
4360 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
4361 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
4362 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4364 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
4365 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
4366 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
4367 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4369 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
4370 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
4371 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
4372 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
4374 o Minor features (geoip):
4375 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4378 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
4379 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
4380 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
4382 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
4383 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4384 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
4385 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
4386 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
4387 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
4389 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
4390 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
4392 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
4393 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
4394 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
4395 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
4396 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
4398 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
4399 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
4400 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
4401 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
4402 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
4403 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
4404 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
4405 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
4406 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
4407 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
4408 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
4409 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
4411 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4412 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
4413 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
4414 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
4415 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4416 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
4417 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
4418 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
4419 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4421 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4422 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
4423 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
4424 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
4425 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
4426 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
4427 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
4428 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
4429 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
4430 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
4431 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4432 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
4433 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
4434 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
4435 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
4436 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4438 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
4439 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
4440 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
4441 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
4442 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
4443 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
4444 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
4448 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
4450 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
4451 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
4453 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
4454 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
4455 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
4459 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
4460 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
4461 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
4462 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
4463 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
4466 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
4469 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
4470 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
4471 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
4472 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
4473 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
4474 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
4476 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
4477 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
4478 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
4479 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
4481 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
4482 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
4483 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
4484 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4486 o Minor features (geoip):
4487 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4490 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
4491 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
4492 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
4493 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
4494 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
4496 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
4497 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
4498 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
4499 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
4500 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4502 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
4503 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
4504 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
4505 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
4506 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
4507 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
4508 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
4509 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
4510 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
4513 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
4514 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
4515 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
4516 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
4517 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
4519 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
4520 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
4521 bugfixes described below.
4523 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
4524 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
4525 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
4526 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4527 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
4528 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
4529 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
4532 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
4533 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
4534 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
4535 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
4536 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
4537 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
4538 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
4541 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
4542 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
4543 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
4544 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
4545 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
4546 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
4547 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
4548 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4549 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
4550 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
4551 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
4552 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
4553 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
4556 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
4557 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
4558 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4560 o Minor features (code style):
4561 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
4562 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
4563 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
4565 o Minor features (diagnostic):
4566 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
4567 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
4568 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
4569 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
4571 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
4572 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
4573 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
4575 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
4576 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
4577 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4579 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
4580 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
4581 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
4582 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
4583 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
4584 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
4585 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4587 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
4588 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
4589 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
4590 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
4591 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4593 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
4594 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
4595 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
4599 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
4602 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
4603 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
4604 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
4605 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
4606 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
4608 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
4609 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
4610 bugfixes described below.
4612 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
4613 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
4614 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
4615 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
4616 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4617 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
4618 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
4619 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
4622 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
4623 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
4624 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
4625 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
4626 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
4627 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
4628 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
4631 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
4632 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
4633 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
4634 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
4635 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
4636 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
4637 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
4638 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4639 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
4640 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
4641 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
4642 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
4643 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
4646 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
4647 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
4648 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
4651 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
4652 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
4653 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
4654 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
4655 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
4657 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
4658 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
4659 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4661 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
4662 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
4663 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
4665 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
4666 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
4667 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
4668 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
4669 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
4670 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
4671 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4673 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
4675 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
4676 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
4677 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4680 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
4681 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
4682 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
4683 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
4684 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
4685 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
4687 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
4688 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
4689 bugfixes described below.
4691 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
4692 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
4693 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
4694 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
4695 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
4698 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
4699 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
4700 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
4701 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
4702 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
4703 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
4704 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
4707 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
4708 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
4709 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
4710 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
4711 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
4713 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
4714 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
4715 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
4716 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
4717 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
4718 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
4719 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
4721 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
4722 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
4723 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
4724 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
4725 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
4727 o Minor features (geoip):
4728 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4731 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
4732 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
4733 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
4734 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4736 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
4737 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
4738 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
4740 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
4741 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
4742 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
4743 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
4744 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
4747 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
4748 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
4749 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
4750 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
4751 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4753 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
4754 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
4755 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
4756 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
4757 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
4758 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
4760 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
4761 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
4762 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
4763 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
4766 o Minor features (geoip):
4767 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4770 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
4771 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
4772 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
4773 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
4774 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
4776 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
4777 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
4778 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
4780 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
4781 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
4782 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
4783 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
4784 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
4785 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
4787 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
4788 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
4789 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
4790 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
4793 o Minor features (geoip):
4794 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4797 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
4798 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
4799 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
4802 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
4803 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
4804 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
4805 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
4806 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
4807 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
4809 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
4810 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
4811 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
4812 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
4815 o Minor features (geoip):
4816 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4819 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
4820 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
4821 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
4823 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
4824 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
4825 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
4826 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
4827 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
4828 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
4830 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
4831 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
4832 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
4833 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
4836 o Minor features (geoip):
4837 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4840 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
4841 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
4842 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
4844 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
4845 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
4846 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
4847 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
4848 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
4849 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
4851 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
4852 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
4853 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
4854 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
4857 o Minor features (geoip):
4858 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4861 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
4862 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
4863 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
4866 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
4867 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
4868 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
4869 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
4871 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
4872 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
4873 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
4874 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
4875 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4877 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4878 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
4879 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
4882 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
4883 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
4884 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
4885 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4888 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
4889 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
4890 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
4891 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
4892 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
4895 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
4896 security, correctness, and performance.
4898 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
4900 o Major features (directory protocol):
4901 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
4902 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
4903 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
4904 now request these documents when available. When both client and
4905 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
4906 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
4907 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
4908 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
4909 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
4910 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
4911 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
4912 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
4913 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
4914 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
4915 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
4916 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
4917 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
4919 o Major features (experimental):
4920 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
4921 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
4922 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
4923 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
4924 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
4925 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
4926 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
4928 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
4929 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
4930 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
4931 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
4932 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
4933 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
4936 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
4937 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
4938 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
4939 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
4940 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
4941 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
4942 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
4943 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
4944 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
4945 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
4948 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
4949 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
4950 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
4951 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
4952 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
4953 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
4954 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
4955 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
4956 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
4957 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
4958 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
4959 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
4960 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
4961 Otherwise it is at info.
4963 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
4964 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
4965 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
4966 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
4968 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
4969 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
4970 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4971 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
4973 o Minor features (security, windows):
4974 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
4975 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
4976 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
4977 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
4978 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
4980 o Minor features (config options):
4981 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
4982 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
4983 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
4984 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
4985 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
4986 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
4987 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
4988 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
4990 o Minor features (controller):
4991 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
4992 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
4994 o Minor features (defaults):
4995 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
4996 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
4997 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
4998 can. Closes ticket 21407.
4999 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
5000 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
5001 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
5002 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
5003 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
5004 Closes ticket 21641.
5006 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
5007 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
5008 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
5009 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
5010 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
5011 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
5012 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
5014 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
5015 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
5016 introduction points than specified in
5017 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
5018 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
5019 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
5020 21594; closes ticket 21622.
5021 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
5022 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
5023 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
5024 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
5026 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5027 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
5028 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
5029 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
5030 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
5031 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
5032 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
5033 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
5034 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
5035 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
5037 o Minor features (logging):
5038 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
5039 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
5040 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
5041 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
5044 o Minor features (performance):
5045 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
5046 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
5048 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
5049 speed some controller functions.
5051 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
5052 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
5053 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
5054 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
5056 o Minor features (safety):
5057 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
5058 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
5059 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
5062 o Minor features (testing):
5063 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
5064 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
5065 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
5066 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
5067 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
5068 on. Closes ticket 21439.
5069 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
5070 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
5071 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
5072 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
5073 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
5074 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
5075 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
5076 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
5077 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
5078 21507. Partially implements 21470.
5080 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
5081 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
5082 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
5083 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
5085 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
5086 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
5087 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
5088 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
5091 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5092 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
5093 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5095 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
5096 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
5097 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
5098 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
5099 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
5100 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
5101 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
5102 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
5103 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
5104 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
5105 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
5106 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
5107 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
5108 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
5110 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5111 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
5112 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5113 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
5114 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
5115 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
5116 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
5117 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5119 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
5120 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
5121 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
5122 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5123 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
5124 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
5125 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
5127 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
5128 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
5129 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
5130 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
5131 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
5133 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
5134 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
5135 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
5136 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
5137 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
5138 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5139 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
5140 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5141 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
5142 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
5143 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5145 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
5146 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
5147 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
5148 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5149 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
5150 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
5151 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5153 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
5154 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
5155 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
5157 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
5158 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
5159 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
5160 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
5161 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
5163 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5164 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
5165 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
5166 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5167 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
5168 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5169 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
5170 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
5171 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
5172 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
5174 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
5175 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
5176 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
5177 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
5178 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
5180 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
5181 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
5182 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5184 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5185 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
5186 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
5187 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
5188 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
5189 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
5190 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
5191 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
5192 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
5193 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
5194 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
5195 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
5197 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
5198 Resolves ticket 22213.
5199 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
5200 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
5201 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
5202 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
5203 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
5204 types. Closes ticket 21651.
5205 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
5206 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
5209 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
5210 Closes ticket 21873.
5211 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
5212 Closes ticket 21151.
5213 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
5214 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
5216 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
5217 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5218 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
5219 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
5221 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
5222 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
5223 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
5224 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
5225 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
5226 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
5227 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
5228 default behavior is now unavailable.
5229 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
5230 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
5231 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
5232 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
5233 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
5234 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
5235 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
5237 o Removed features (tools):
5238 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
5239 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
5240 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
5241 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
5242 required. Closes ticket 21842.
5245 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
5246 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
5247 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
5248 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
5249 clients are not affected.
5251 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
5252 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
5253 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
5254 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
5255 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
5256 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5259 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5262 o Minor features (future-proofing):
5263 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
5264 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
5265 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
5266 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
5267 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
5268 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
5270 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5271 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
5272 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
5273 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
5274 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
5278 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
5279 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
5281 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
5282 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
5283 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
5284 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
5285 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
5286 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
5289 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
5290 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
5292 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
5293 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
5294 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
5295 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
5296 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
5298 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
5299 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
5301 o Minor features (geoip):
5302 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5305 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
5306 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
5307 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
5308 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5310 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
5311 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
5312 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
5313 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5316 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
5317 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
5318 0.3.0 release series.
5320 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
5321 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
5322 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
5325 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
5326 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
5327 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
5328 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
5330 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
5331 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
5332 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
5333 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5334 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
5336 o Minor features (geoip):
5337 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5340 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
5341 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
5342 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
5343 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
5346 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
5347 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
5348 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
5349 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
5350 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
5351 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
5352 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
5353 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
5355 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
5356 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
5357 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
5359 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5360 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
5361 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
5364 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
5365 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
5366 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
5367 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
5368 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5371 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
5372 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
5373 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
5377 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
5378 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
5379 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
5380 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
5381 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
5384 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
5385 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
5386 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
5388 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
5389 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
5390 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
5391 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
5392 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
5393 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
5394 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
5396 o Minor features (geoip):
5397 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5401 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
5402 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
5403 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
5404 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
5407 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
5408 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
5409 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
5411 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
5412 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
5414 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
5415 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
5416 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
5418 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
5419 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
5420 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
5423 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
5424 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
5425 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
5426 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
5427 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
5428 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
5429 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
5430 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
5431 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
5433 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
5434 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
5435 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
5436 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
5437 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5438 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
5439 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
5440 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
5441 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
5442 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
5443 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
5444 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
5445 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
5447 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
5448 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
5449 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
5450 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
5451 Reported by Guido Vranken.
5453 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
5454 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
5455 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
5457 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
5458 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
5459 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
5460 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
5461 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
5462 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
5463 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
5466 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
5467 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
5468 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
5469 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
5470 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
5471 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
5472 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
5474 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
5475 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
5476 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
5477 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
5480 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
5481 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
5482 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
5483 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
5485 o Minor features (geoip):
5486 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5490 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
5491 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
5492 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
5493 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
5496 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
5497 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
5498 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
5500 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
5501 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
5503 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
5504 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
5505 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
5507 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
5508 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
5509 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
5512 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
5513 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
5514 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
5515 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
5516 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
5517 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
5518 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
5519 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
5520 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
5522 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
5523 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
5524 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
5525 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
5526 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
5527 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
5528 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
5529 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
5530 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
5532 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
5533 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
5534 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
5535 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
5536 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5538 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
5539 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
5540 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
5541 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
5542 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
5545 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
5546 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
5547 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
5548 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
5549 Reported by Guido Vranken.
5551 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
5552 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
5553 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
5555 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
5556 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
5557 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
5558 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
5559 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
5560 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
5563 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
5564 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
5565 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
5566 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
5567 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
5568 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
5569 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
5572 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
5573 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
5574 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
5575 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
5576 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
5577 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
5578 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
5580 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
5581 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
5582 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
5583 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
5586 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
5587 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
5588 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
5589 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
5591 o Minor features (geoip):
5592 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5595 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
5596 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
5597 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
5600 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
5601 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
5602 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
5603 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
5606 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
5607 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
5608 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
5610 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
5611 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
5613 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
5614 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
5615 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
5617 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
5618 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
5619 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
5622 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
5623 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
5624 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
5625 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
5626 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
5627 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
5628 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
5629 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
5630 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
5632 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
5633 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
5634 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
5635 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
5636 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
5637 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
5638 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
5639 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
5640 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
5642 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
5643 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
5644 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
5645 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
5646 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5648 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
5649 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
5650 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
5651 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
5652 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
5655 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
5656 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
5657 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
5658 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
5659 Reported by Guido Vranken.
5661 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
5662 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
5663 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
5665 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
5666 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
5667 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
5668 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
5669 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
5670 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
5673 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
5674 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
5675 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
5676 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
5677 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
5678 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
5679 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
5682 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
5683 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
5684 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
5685 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
5686 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
5687 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
5688 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
5690 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
5691 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
5692 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
5693 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
5696 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
5697 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
5698 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
5699 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
5701 o Minor features (geoip):
5702 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5705 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
5706 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
5707 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
5709 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
5710 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
5711 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
5712 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
5713 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
5714 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
5716 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
5717 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
5718 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
5722 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
5723 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
5724 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
5725 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
5728 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
5729 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
5730 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
5732 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
5733 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
5735 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
5736 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
5737 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
5739 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
5740 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
5741 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
5744 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
5745 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
5746 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
5747 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
5748 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
5749 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
5750 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
5751 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
5752 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
5754 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
5755 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
5756 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
5757 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
5758 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
5759 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
5760 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
5761 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
5762 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
5764 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
5765 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
5766 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
5767 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
5768 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
5771 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
5772 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
5773 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
5774 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
5775 Reported by Guido Vranken.
5777 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
5778 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
5779 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
5781 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
5782 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
5783 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
5784 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
5785 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
5786 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
5789 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
5790 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
5791 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
5792 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
5793 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
5794 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
5795 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
5798 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
5799 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
5800 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
5801 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
5802 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
5803 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
5804 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
5806 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
5807 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
5808 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
5809 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
5812 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
5813 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
5814 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
5815 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
5817 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
5818 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
5819 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
5820 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
5822 o Minor features (geoip):
5823 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5826 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
5827 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
5828 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
5830 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
5831 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
5832 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
5836 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
5837 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
5838 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
5839 keep them from coming back.
5841 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
5842 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
5843 will be nearly identical to it.
5845 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
5846 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
5847 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
5848 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
5849 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
5850 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5852 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
5853 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
5854 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5856 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
5857 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
5858 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
5859 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
5860 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
5861 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
5862 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
5863 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
5864 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
5865 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
5866 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
5867 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
5868 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
5869 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
5870 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
5872 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
5873 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
5874 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
5876 o Minor features (directory authorities):
5877 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
5878 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
5880 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
5881 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
5882 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
5883 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
5884 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
5885 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
5886 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
5888 o Minor features (geoip):
5889 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5892 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
5893 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
5894 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
5897 o Minor features (testing):
5898 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
5899 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
5900 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
5902 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
5903 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
5904 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
5906 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
5907 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
5908 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
5909 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
5910 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
5911 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5913 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
5914 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
5915 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
5916 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
5917 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
5918 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
5919 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
5922 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
5923 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
5924 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
5925 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5926 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
5927 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
5928 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5930 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
5931 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
5932 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
5933 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
5934 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
5935 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5937 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5938 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
5939 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
5941 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
5942 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
5943 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
5944 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
5945 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5948 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
5951 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
5952 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
5953 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
5954 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
5956 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
5957 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
5958 least January of 2020.
5960 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
5961 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
5962 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
5963 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
5966 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
5967 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
5968 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
5969 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
5970 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
5971 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
5972 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5974 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
5975 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
5976 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
5977 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
5978 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
5979 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
5980 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
5982 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
5983 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
5984 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
5986 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
5987 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
5988 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
5990 o Minor features (geoip):
5991 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5994 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
5995 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
5996 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
5998 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
5999 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
6001 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
6002 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
6003 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
6005 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
6006 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
6007 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
6008 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6009 Patch by "junglefowl".
6012 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
6013 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
6014 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
6015 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
6016 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
6017 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
6019 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
6020 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
6021 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
6024 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
6025 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
6026 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
6027 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
6029 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
6030 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
6031 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
6032 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
6033 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6035 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
6036 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
6037 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
6038 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
6039 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6041 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
6042 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
6043 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
6044 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
6045 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
6046 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
6047 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6049 o Minor feature (client):
6050 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
6051 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
6053 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
6054 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
6055 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
6056 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
6058 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
6059 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
6060 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
6061 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
6062 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
6064 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
6065 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
6066 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
6067 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
6068 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
6069 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
6070 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
6071 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
6072 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
6073 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
6075 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
6076 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
6077 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
6079 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
6080 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
6082 o Minor features (relay):
6083 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
6084 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
6085 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
6086 Written by Michael Sonntag.
6088 o Minor bugfix (logging):
6089 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
6090 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
6091 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
6092 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
6095 o Minor bugfixes (client):
6096 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
6097 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
6098 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6100 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
6101 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
6102 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
6104 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
6105 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6106 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
6107 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
6108 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6109 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
6110 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
6112 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
6113 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
6114 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
6115 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
6116 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
6117 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
6118 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
6121 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
6122 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
6123 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6125 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
6126 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
6127 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
6128 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
6129 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6130 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
6131 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
6132 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
6134 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
6135 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
6136 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6138 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6139 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
6140 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
6141 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
6143 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
6144 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
6145 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
6146 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6148 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
6149 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
6150 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
6151 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6152 Patch by "junglefowl".
6154 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
6155 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
6156 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
6160 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
6161 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
6162 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
6163 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
6164 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
6165 version should upgrade.
6167 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
6168 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
6169 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
6170 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
6171 the set of fallback directories, and more.
6173 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
6174 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
6175 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
6176 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
6177 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
6178 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
6181 o Major features (security):
6182 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
6183 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
6184 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
6185 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
6186 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
6187 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
6189 o Major features (directory authority, security):
6190 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
6191 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
6192 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
6194 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
6195 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
6196 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
6197 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
6198 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
6201 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
6202 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
6203 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
6204 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
6205 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
6206 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
6207 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
6208 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
6209 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
6210 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
6211 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6213 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
6214 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
6215 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6217 o Minor features (controller):
6218 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
6219 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
6221 o Minor features (entry guards):
6222 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
6223 break regression tests.
6224 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
6225 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
6227 o Minor features (fallback directories):
6228 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
6230 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
6231 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
6232 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
6233 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
6234 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
6235 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
6236 Closes ticket 20539.
6237 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
6239 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
6240 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
6241 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
6242 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
6243 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
6245 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
6246 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
6247 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
6248 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
6249 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
6250 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
6251 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
6252 Closes ticket 20822.
6253 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
6254 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
6256 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
6257 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6260 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
6261 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
6262 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
6263 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
6265 o Minor features (linting):
6266 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
6267 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
6269 o Minor features (logging):
6270 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
6271 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
6273 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
6274 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
6275 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
6276 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
6277 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
6278 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
6280 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
6281 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
6282 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
6283 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
6285 o Minor bugfixes (build):
6286 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
6287 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
6290 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
6291 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
6292 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
6293 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6295 o Minor bugfixes (config):
6296 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
6297 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
6298 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
6299 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6301 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
6302 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
6303 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
6306 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
6307 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
6308 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
6309 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
6310 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6312 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
6313 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
6314 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
6316 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
6317 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
6318 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6319 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
6320 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
6321 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
6322 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
6323 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
6324 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
6326 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
6327 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
6328 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
6329 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6331 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6332 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
6333 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
6334 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6335 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
6336 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6338 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
6339 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
6340 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6341 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
6342 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
6343 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
6344 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
6345 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
6347 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
6348 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
6349 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6351 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
6352 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
6353 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
6354 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
6356 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
6357 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6359 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6360 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
6361 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
6362 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
6363 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
6365 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6366 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
6367 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6369 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
6370 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
6371 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
6372 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
6373 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
6375 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6376 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
6377 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
6379 o Documentation (formatting):
6380 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
6381 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
6383 o Documentation (man page):
6384 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
6385 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
6388 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
6389 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
6390 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
6391 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
6392 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
6393 version should upgrade.
6395 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
6396 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
6398 o Major bugfixes (security):
6399 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
6400 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
6401 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
6402 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
6403 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
6404 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6406 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
6407 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
6408 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
6409 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
6410 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
6411 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
6412 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
6413 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
6414 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
6415 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
6416 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6418 o Minor features (geoip):
6419 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6422 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6423 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
6424 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
6425 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
6427 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
6428 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6431 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
6432 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
6433 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
6434 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
6435 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
6436 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
6437 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
6438 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
6440 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
6442 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
6443 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
6444 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
6445 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
6446 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
6449 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
6450 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
6451 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
6452 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
6453 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
6454 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
6455 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
6456 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
6459 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
6460 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
6461 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
6462 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
6463 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
6465 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
6466 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
6467 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
6468 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
6469 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
6470 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
6471 15056; part of proposal 220.
6472 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
6473 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
6474 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
6475 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
6476 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
6478 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
6479 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
6480 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
6481 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
6482 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
6484 o Minor features (controller):
6485 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
6486 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
6489 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
6490 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
6491 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
6494 o Minor features (directory authority):
6495 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
6496 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
6497 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
6498 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
6499 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
6501 o Minor features (directory cache):
6502 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
6503 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
6506 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
6507 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
6508 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
6509 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
6511 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
6512 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
6513 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
6514 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
6516 o Minor features (infrastructure):
6517 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
6518 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
6520 o Minor bugfixes (client):
6521 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
6522 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
6523 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
6525 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
6526 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
6527 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
6528 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
6529 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
6530 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
6532 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
6533 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
6534 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
6535 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
6536 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
6538 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
6539 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
6540 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
6541 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
6542 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
6544 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
6545 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
6546 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
6547 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
6548 on all recent tor versions.
6549 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
6550 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
6551 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
6552 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
6554 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
6555 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
6556 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6558 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
6559 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
6560 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
6561 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
6564 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
6565 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
6566 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
6569 o Minor bugfixes (util):
6570 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
6571 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
6572 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
6573 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
6575 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
6576 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
6577 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
6578 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
6580 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6581 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
6582 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
6583 Closes ticket 19858.
6584 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
6585 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
6586 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
6587 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
6588 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
6589 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
6590 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
6591 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
6592 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
6593 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
6594 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
6595 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
6596 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
6597 redundant with the similar structures used in the
6598 channel abstraction.
6599 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
6600 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
6601 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
6602 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
6603 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
6604 replaced with code automatically generated by the
6608 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
6609 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6610 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
6611 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
6613 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
6614 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
6616 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
6617 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
6618 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
6619 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
6620 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
6624 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
6625 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
6626 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
6628 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
6629 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
6630 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
6633 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
6634 from "overcaffeinated".
6635 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
6636 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
6637 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
6638 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
6639 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
6643 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
6644 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
6645 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
6646 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
6647 become available for their systems.
6649 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
6652 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
6653 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
6655 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
6656 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
6657 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
6658 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
6659 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
6660 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
6661 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
6662 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
6663 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
6665 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
6666 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
6667 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
6668 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
6669 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
6671 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
6672 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
6676 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
6677 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
6679 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
6680 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
6681 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
6682 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
6683 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
6684 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
6685 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
6686 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
6688 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
6690 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
6691 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
6692 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
6693 become available for their systems.
6695 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
6696 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
6698 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
6699 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
6700 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
6701 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
6702 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
6703 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
6704 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
6705 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
6706 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
6708 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
6709 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
6710 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
6711 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
6712 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
6715 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
6716 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
6717 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
6720 o Minor features (geoip):
6721 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
6724 o Minor bugfix (build):
6725 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
6726 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
6727 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6729 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
6730 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
6731 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
6732 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
6734 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
6735 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
6736 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
6738 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6739 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
6740 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
6743 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
6744 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
6745 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6746 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
6747 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
6748 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
6750 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6751 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
6752 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
6753 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
6755 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6756 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
6757 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
6759 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
6760 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
6761 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
6762 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
6763 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
6764 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
6765 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6766 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
6767 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
6768 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
6771 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
6772 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
6773 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
6774 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
6777 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6778 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
6779 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
6780 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
6781 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
6782 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
6785 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
6786 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
6787 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
6790 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
6791 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
6792 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
6793 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
6795 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
6796 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
6797 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
6798 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
6801 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
6802 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
6803 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
6804 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
6807 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
6808 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
6809 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
6812 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
6813 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
6814 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
6816 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
6817 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
6818 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
6820 o Minor features (geoip):
6821 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
6824 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
6825 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
6826 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
6827 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
6828 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
6830 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
6831 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
6832 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
6833 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
6834 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
6835 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6837 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
6838 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
6839 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6841 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
6842 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
6843 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
6844 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
6845 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
6846 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
6848 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6849 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
6850 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
6852 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
6853 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
6855 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
6856 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
6857 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
6858 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
6859 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
6860 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
6862 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
6863 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
6864 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
6868 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
6869 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
6872 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
6873 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
6874 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
6875 everyone to test this release.
6877 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
6878 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
6879 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
6880 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
6883 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
6884 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
6885 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
6886 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
6889 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
6890 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
6891 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
6892 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
6893 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6894 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
6895 download, stop waiting for certificates.
6896 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
6897 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
6898 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
6900 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
6901 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
6902 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
6903 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6904 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
6905 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6906 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
6907 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
6908 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6909 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
6910 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
6911 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
6913 o Minor features (geoip):
6914 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
6917 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
6918 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
6919 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
6920 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
6921 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
6922 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6924 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
6925 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
6926 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
6927 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6928 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
6929 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6931 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
6932 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
6933 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
6934 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
6937 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6938 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
6939 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
6940 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
6941 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
6942 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6943 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
6944 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
6946 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
6947 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
6948 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6950 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6951 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
6952 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
6953 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
6954 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6955 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
6956 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
6957 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6959 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
6960 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
6961 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
6964 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6965 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
6966 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6969 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
6970 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6971 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
6972 tickets 19287 and 19290.
6975 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
6976 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
6977 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
6978 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
6979 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
6982 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
6983 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
6984 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
6985 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
6986 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
6987 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
6988 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
6989 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
6990 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
6992 o Minor features (geoip):
6993 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
6997 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
6998 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
6999 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
7000 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
7001 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
7004 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
7005 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
7006 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
7007 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
7008 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
7009 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
7010 be a release candidate.
7012 o Major features (security fixes):
7013 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
7014 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
7015 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
7016 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
7017 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
7018 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
7019 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
7020 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
7022 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
7023 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
7024 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
7025 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
7026 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
7027 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
7028 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
7029 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
7030 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
7031 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
7032 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
7033 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
7034 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
7035 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
7038 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
7039 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
7040 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
7042 o Minor features (client, directory):
7043 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
7044 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
7045 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
7048 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
7049 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
7052 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
7053 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
7054 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
7057 o Minor features (geoip):
7058 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
7061 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
7062 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
7063 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
7064 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
7065 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
7067 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
7068 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
7069 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
7070 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
7073 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
7074 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
7075 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
7076 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
7077 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
7079 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
7080 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
7081 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
7084 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
7085 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
7086 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
7087 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
7089 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
7090 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
7091 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
7092 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
7094 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
7095 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
7096 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
7097 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
7100 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
7101 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
7102 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
7106 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
7107 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
7109 o Required libraries:
7110 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
7111 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
7112 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
7115 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
7116 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
7117 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
7118 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
7119 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
7120 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
7121 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
7122 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
7124 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
7125 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
7126 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
7127 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
7128 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
7129 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7131 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
7132 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
7133 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
7134 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
7135 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
7138 o Major features (circuit building, security):
7139 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
7140 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
7141 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
7143 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
7144 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
7146 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
7147 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
7148 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
7149 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
7150 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
7151 connections to their introduction and renzedvous points. One-hop
7152 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
7153 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
7154 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
7155 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
7156 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
7158 o Major features (resource management):
7159 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
7160 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
7161 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
7162 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
7163 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
7164 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
7166 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
7167 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
7168 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
7169 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
7171 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
7172 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
7173 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
7174 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7176 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
7177 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
7178 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
7179 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
7180 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
7181 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
7183 o Minor features (security, TLS):
7184 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
7185 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
7186 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
7187 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
7189 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
7190 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
7191 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
7192 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
7194 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
7195 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
7198 o Minor feature (port flags):
7199 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
7200 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
7201 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
7202 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
7203 18693; patch by "teor".
7205 o Minor features (directory authority):
7206 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
7207 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
7208 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
7210 o Minor features (testing):
7211 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
7212 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
7213 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
7214 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
7216 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
7217 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
7218 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
7219 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
7220 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
7221 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
7222 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
7223 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
7224 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
7226 o Minor features (Tor2web):
7227 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
7228 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
7229 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
7231 o Minor features (unit tests):
7232 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
7233 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
7234 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
7235 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
7236 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
7237 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
7238 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
7239 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
7241 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
7242 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
7243 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
7244 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
7245 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
7246 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
7247 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
7248 assertion as a test failure.
7250 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
7251 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
7252 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
7253 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
7254 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
7255 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
7257 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
7258 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
7259 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
7260 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
7261 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
7262 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
7263 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
7264 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
7265 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
7266 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
7267 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7268 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
7269 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
7270 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
7271 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
7272 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7274 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
7275 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
7276 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
7277 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
7278 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7279 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
7280 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
7283 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7284 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
7285 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
7286 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
7287 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
7288 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
7289 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
7292 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
7293 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
7294 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
7295 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
7297 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
7298 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
7299 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
7301 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7302 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
7303 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
7304 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
7305 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
7306 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7308 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7309 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
7310 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
7311 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
7313 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
7314 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
7315 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
7317 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
7318 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
7319 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
7320 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
7321 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
7322 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
7324 o Minor bugfixes (options):
7325 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
7326 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
7328 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
7329 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
7330 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
7333 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
7334 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
7335 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
7336 19678. Patch by teor.
7338 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
7339 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
7340 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
7341 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
7342 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
7343 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
7345 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
7346 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
7350 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
7351 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
7352 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
7353 who select public relays as their bridges.
7355 o Major bugfixes (crash):
7356 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
7357 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
7358 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
7359 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
7360 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7362 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
7363 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
7364 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
7365 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
7366 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
7369 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
7370 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
7371 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
7372 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
7374 o Minor features (geoip):
7375 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
7379 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
7380 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
7381 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
7382 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
7383 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
7384 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
7386 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
7387 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7388 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
7390 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
7391 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
7392 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
7393 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
7394 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
7395 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7397 o Major features (user interface):
7398 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
7399 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
7400 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
7402 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
7403 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
7404 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
7405 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
7407 o Minor features (config):
7408 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
7409 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
7411 o Minor features (geoip):
7412 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
7415 o Minor features (user interface):
7416 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
7417 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
7420 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
7421 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
7422 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
7424 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7425 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
7426 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
7428 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
7429 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
7430 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
7431 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7433 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
7434 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
7435 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
7438 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
7439 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
7440 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
7441 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
7443 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7444 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
7445 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
7447 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
7448 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
7449 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7451 o Deprecated features:
7452 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
7453 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
7454 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
7455 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
7456 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
7457 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
7458 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
7459 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
7460 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
7461 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
7462 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
7463 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
7464 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
7465 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
7466 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
7467 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
7468 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
7469 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
7470 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
7471 and TransListenAddress.
7474 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
7475 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
7478 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
7479 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
7482 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
7483 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
7484 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
7485 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
7486 encouraged to upgrade.
7488 o Directory authority changes:
7489 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7490 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
7492 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
7493 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
7494 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
7495 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
7496 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
7497 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7499 o Minor features (geoip):
7500 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
7503 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7504 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
7505 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
7508 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
7509 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
7510 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
7511 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
7514 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
7515 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
7516 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
7517 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
7518 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
7519 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
7520 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
7521 security, correctness, and performance.
7523 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
7525 o New system requirements:
7526 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
7527 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
7528 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
7529 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
7530 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
7531 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
7532 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
7533 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
7535 o Major features (build, hardening):
7536 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
7537 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
7538 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
7539 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
7540 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
7541 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
7542 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
7543 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
7544 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
7546 o Major features (compilation):
7547 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
7548 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
7549 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
7550 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
7552 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
7553 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
7554 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
7556 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
7557 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
7558 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
7559 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
7560 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
7561 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
7562 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
7563 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
7565 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
7566 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
7567 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
7568 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
7569 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
7570 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
7571 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
7573 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
7574 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
7575 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
7576 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
7577 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
7578 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
7579 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
7581 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
7582 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
7583 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
7584 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
7585 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
7587 o Minor features (build, hardening):
7588 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
7589 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
7590 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
7591 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
7592 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
7593 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
7594 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
7595 Closes ticket 18895.
7597 o Minor features (code safety):
7598 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
7599 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
7602 o Minor features (controller):
7603 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
7604 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
7605 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
7606 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
7607 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
7608 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
7609 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
7610 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
7612 o Minor features (directory authority):
7613 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
7614 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
7615 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
7616 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
7617 Implements ticket 18624.
7618 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
7619 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
7620 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
7623 o Minor features (hidden service):
7624 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
7625 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
7626 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
7629 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
7630 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
7631 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
7632 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
7633 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
7634 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
7635 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
7636 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
7637 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
7638 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
7639 Closes ticket 18365.
7641 o Minor features (logging):
7642 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
7643 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
7644 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
7645 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
7646 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
7647 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
7648 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
7649 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
7650 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
7651 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
7653 o Minor features (performance):
7654 - Changer the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
7655 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
7656 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
7657 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
7658 from. Changing this default When fetching a consensus for the
7659 first time, use optimistic data. This saves a round-trip during
7660 startup. Closes ticket 18815.
7662 o Minor features (relay, usability):
7663 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
7664 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
7665 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
7666 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
7669 o Minor features (testing):
7670 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
7671 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7672 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
7673 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
7674 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
7675 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
7676 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
7677 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
7680 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
7681 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
7682 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
7683 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
7684 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7686 o Minor bugfixes (build):
7687 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
7688 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
7689 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
7690 patch from "cypherpunks".
7692 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
7693 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
7694 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7696 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7697 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
7698 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
7699 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7701 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
7702 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
7703 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
7704 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7705 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
7706 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
7707 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
7708 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
7710 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7711 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
7712 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
7713 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
7714 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
7715 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
7716 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
7718 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
7719 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
7720 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
7723 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
7724 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
7725 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
7727 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
7728 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
7729 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
7732 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
7733 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
7734 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
7735 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
7738 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7739 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
7740 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
7742 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7743 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
7744 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
7747 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7748 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
7749 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
7750 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
7751 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
7752 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
7753 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
7754 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
7755 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
7758 o Minor bugfixes (time):
7759 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
7760 bugfix on all released tor versions.
7761 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
7762 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
7763 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
7764 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7766 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
7767 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
7768 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
7769 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
7770 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
7772 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
7773 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7775 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7776 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
7778 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
7779 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
7780 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
7781 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
7784 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
7785 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
7788 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
7789 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
7790 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
7791 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
7792 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
7793 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
7794 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
7797 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
7798 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
7799 command-line options to enable them.
7800 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
7801 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
7804 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
7806 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
7808 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
7809 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
7810 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
7811 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
7812 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
7813 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
7815 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
7817 o Minor features (geoip):
7818 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
7821 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7822 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
7823 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7825 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
7826 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
7827 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
7828 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
7830 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7831 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
7832 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
7833 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
7834 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
7835 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
7836 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
7837 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7840 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
7841 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
7842 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
7843 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
7844 against previous versions.
7846 o Directory authority changes:
7847 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
7849 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
7850 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
7851 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
7852 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
7854 o Minor features (build):
7855 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
7856 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
7857 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
7858 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
7859 Patch from intrigeri.
7861 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
7862 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
7863 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
7866 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
7867 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
7868 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
7869 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
7870 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
7873 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7874 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
7875 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
7876 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
7877 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
7878 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
7879 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
7881 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
7882 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
7883 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
7884 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
7886 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
7887 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
7888 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
7889 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
7890 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
7891 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7893 o Fallback directory list:
7894 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
7895 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
7896 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
7897 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
7898 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
7899 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
7900 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
7901 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
7902 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
7905 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
7906 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
7907 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
7908 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
7911 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
7912 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
7913 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
7914 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7916 o Minor features (build):
7917 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
7918 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
7920 o Minor features (geoip):
7921 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
7924 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7925 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
7926 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7928 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
7929 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
7930 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
7931 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
7935 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
7936 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
7937 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
7938 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
7939 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
7942 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
7943 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
7944 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
7945 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
7946 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7948 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
7949 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
7950 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
7951 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
7952 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
7953 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
7955 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
7956 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
7957 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
7958 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7960 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
7961 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
7962 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
7963 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
7964 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
7965 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
7966 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
7968 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
7969 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
7971 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
7972 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
7973 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
7975 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
7976 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
7977 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
7978 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
7979 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
7980 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7983 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
7984 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
7985 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
7988 o Major bugfixes (key management):
7989 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
7990 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
7991 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
7992 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
7993 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
7994 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
7997 o Major bugfixes (testing):
7998 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
7999 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
8000 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
8001 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8003 o Minor features (clients):
8004 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
8005 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
8006 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
8008 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
8009 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
8010 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
8011 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
8012 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
8013 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
8014 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
8015 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
8016 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
8017 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
8019 o Minor features (geoip):
8020 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8023 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
8024 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
8025 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
8028 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
8029 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
8030 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
8032 o Minor bugfixes (build):
8033 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
8034 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
8036 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
8037 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
8039 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
8040 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
8043 o Minor bugfixes (client):
8044 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
8045 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
8046 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
8047 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8048 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
8049 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
8050 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
8052 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
8053 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
8054 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
8055 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
8056 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
8058 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
8059 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
8060 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
8061 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8062 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
8063 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
8066 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
8067 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
8068 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
8069 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
8070 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
8071 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8073 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8074 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
8075 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
8076 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8077 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
8078 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8079 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
8080 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8082 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8083 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
8084 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
8085 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
8087 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
8088 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
8089 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
8090 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
8091 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
8092 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
8095 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
8096 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
8097 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
8099 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
8100 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
8101 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
8103 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
8104 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
8105 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
8107 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8108 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
8109 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
8110 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
8111 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
8112 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
8113 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8115 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
8116 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
8117 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
8118 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
8121 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
8122 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
8123 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
8124 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
8127 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
8128 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
8129 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
8130 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
8131 directory support should also be much improved.
8133 o New system requirements:
8134 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
8135 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
8136 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
8137 longer runs with, these versions.
8138 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
8139 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
8140 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
8142 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
8143 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
8144 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
8145 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
8146 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
8148 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
8149 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
8150 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
8151 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
8152 Reported by Guido Vranken.
8154 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
8155 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
8156 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
8157 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
8158 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
8160 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
8161 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
8162 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
8163 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8165 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
8166 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
8167 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8168 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
8169 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8171 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
8172 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
8173 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
8174 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
8175 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
8176 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8179 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
8180 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
8181 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
8183 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
8184 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
8185 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
8186 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
8189 o Major bugfixes (voting):
8190 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
8191 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
8192 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
8193 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
8195 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
8196 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
8197 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
8198 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8199 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
8200 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
8201 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
8202 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
8203 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
8204 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8206 o Minor features (security, win32):
8207 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
8208 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
8211 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
8212 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
8213 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
8214 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
8216 o Minor features (build):
8217 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
8218 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
8221 o Minor features (code hardening):
8222 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
8223 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
8224 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
8227 o Minor features (crypto):
8228 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
8229 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
8232 o Minor features (geoip):
8233 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8236 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
8237 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
8238 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
8239 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
8240 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
8242 o Minor features (IPv6):
8243 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
8244 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
8245 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
8246 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
8247 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
8248 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
8249 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
8251 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8252 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
8253 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
8254 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
8257 o Minor features (robustness):
8258 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
8259 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
8260 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
8262 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
8263 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
8264 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
8265 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
8266 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
8267 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
8268 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
8271 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
8272 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
8273 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
8274 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
8275 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
8277 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
8278 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
8279 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
8280 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
8282 o Minor bugfixes (build):
8283 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
8284 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
8286 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
8287 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
8288 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
8289 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
8290 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
8291 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
8293 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
8294 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
8295 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
8296 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
8297 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8299 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
8300 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
8301 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
8302 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
8305 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
8306 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
8307 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
8309 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
8310 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
8311 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
8312 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
8314 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8315 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
8316 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
8317 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
8318 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
8319 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
8321 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
8322 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
8323 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
8324 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
8326 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
8327 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
8328 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
8329 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
8330 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
8332 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
8333 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
8334 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
8335 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
8336 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
8337 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
8338 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
8339 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
8340 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
8343 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
8344 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
8345 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
8346 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8348 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
8349 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
8350 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
8352 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8353 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
8354 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
8355 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8356 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
8357 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
8358 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8359 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
8360 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8362 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8363 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
8364 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
8365 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
8366 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
8367 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
8368 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
8369 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
8370 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
8371 Christian, patch by teor.
8373 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
8374 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
8375 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
8376 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
8378 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
8379 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
8380 patch by "cypherpunks".
8381 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
8383 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
8384 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8386 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
8387 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
8388 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
8389 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
8391 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
8392 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
8393 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
8396 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8397 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
8398 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
8399 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
8400 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
8401 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8403 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
8404 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
8405 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
8406 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
8408 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
8409 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
8410 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
8411 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
8413 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8414 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
8415 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
8416 17744. Patch from zerosion.
8417 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
8418 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
8419 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
8420 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
8421 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
8424 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
8425 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
8426 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
8429 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
8430 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
8431 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
8434 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
8436 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
8437 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
8440 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
8441 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
8442 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
8443 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
8444 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
8446 o Major features (security, Linux):
8447 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
8448 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
8449 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
8450 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
8451 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
8453 o Major features (directory system):
8454 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
8455 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
8456 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
8457 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
8458 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
8459 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
8460 "mikeperry" and "teor".
8461 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
8462 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
8463 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
8464 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
8465 15775. Patch by "teor".
8466 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
8467 "gsathya", and "karsten".
8468 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
8469 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
8470 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
8471 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
8472 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
8475 o Major key updates:
8476 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
8477 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
8480 o Minor features (security, clock):
8481 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
8482 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
8483 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
8484 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
8486 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
8487 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
8488 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
8489 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
8490 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
8491 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
8493 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
8494 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
8495 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
8496 Implements ticket 17026.
8497 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
8498 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
8499 Implements feature 17986.
8500 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
8501 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
8502 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
8503 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
8504 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
8505 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
8508 o Minor features (security, RNG):
8509 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
8510 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
8511 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
8512 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
8513 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
8514 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
8515 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
8516 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
8517 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
8518 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
8521 o Minor features (accounting):
8522 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
8523 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
8524 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
8525 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
8527 o Minor features (build):
8528 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
8529 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
8530 patch from "cypherpunks."
8531 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
8532 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
8533 17549, 17921, and 17984.
8535 o Minor features (controller):
8536 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
8537 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
8538 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
8539 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
8540 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
8541 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
8542 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
8543 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
8546 o Minor features (crypto):
8547 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
8549 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
8550 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
8551 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
8552 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
8553 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
8554 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
8555 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
8556 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
8558 o Minor features (directory downloads):
8559 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
8560 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
8561 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
8562 17864; patch by "teor".
8563 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
8564 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
8565 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
8567 o Minor features (geoip):
8568 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8571 o Minor features (IPv6):
8572 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
8573 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
8574 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
8575 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
8576 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
8577 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
8578 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
8579 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
8580 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
8581 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
8582 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
8584 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
8585 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
8586 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
8587 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
8589 o Minor features (logging):
8590 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
8591 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
8592 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
8593 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
8596 o Minor features (portability):
8597 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
8598 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
8600 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
8601 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
8602 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
8603 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
8604 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
8606 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
8607 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
8608 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
8609 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
8610 Resolves ticket 17951.
8612 o Minor features (replay cache):
8613 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
8614 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
8616 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
8617 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
8618 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
8619 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
8620 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
8621 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
8622 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
8623 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
8624 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
8625 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
8626 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
8627 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
8628 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
8629 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
8631 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
8632 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
8633 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
8636 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
8637 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
8638 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
8639 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
8640 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
8641 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
8643 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
8646 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8647 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
8648 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
8649 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8650 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
8651 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
8652 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8653 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
8655 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
8656 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
8657 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
8658 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
8659 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
8660 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
8661 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
8662 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
8664 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
8665 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
8667 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
8668 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
8669 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
8671 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
8672 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
8673 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
8674 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
8676 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
8677 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
8678 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8680 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8681 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
8682 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
8684 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8685 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
8686 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
8687 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
8688 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
8690 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
8691 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
8693 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8694 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
8695 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
8698 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
8699 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
8700 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
8701 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
8702 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
8703 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
8705 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
8706 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
8707 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
8708 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
8709 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
8711 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
8712 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
8713 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
8716 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
8717 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
8718 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
8719 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
8720 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
8721 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
8722 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
8723 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
8726 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8727 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
8728 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
8729 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
8730 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
8731 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8732 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
8733 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
8734 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
8735 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
8737 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
8738 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
8740 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8741 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
8742 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
8743 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
8744 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
8745 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
8746 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
8747 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
8748 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
8749 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
8751 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
8752 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
8753 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
8754 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
8756 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
8757 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
8758 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
8759 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
8760 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
8762 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
8763 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
8766 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
8767 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
8768 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
8769 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
8770 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
8771 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
8772 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
8776 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
8777 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
8778 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
8779 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
8780 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
8783 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
8784 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
8785 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
8786 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
8787 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
8788 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
8789 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
8790 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
8791 portion of ticket 16831.
8792 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
8793 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
8794 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
8796 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
8797 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
8800 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
8801 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
8802 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
8804 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
8805 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
8806 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
8807 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
8808 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
8809 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
8812 o Minor features (geoip):
8813 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
8816 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8817 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
8818 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
8819 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
8820 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
8821 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
8823 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8824 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
8825 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
8826 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
8827 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
8828 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
8829 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
8830 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8831 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
8832 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8835 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
8836 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
8837 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
8838 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
8839 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
8840 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
8841 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
8842 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
8843 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
8844 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
8845 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
8846 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
8847 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
8848 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
8849 that would make him proud.
8851 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
8853 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
8854 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
8855 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
8856 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
8857 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
8858 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
8859 of Tor invoke which others.
8861 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
8864 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
8865 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
8866 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
8867 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
8868 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
8869 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
8870 release will the the official stable release.
8872 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
8873 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
8874 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
8875 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
8876 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
8879 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
8880 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
8881 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
8883 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
8884 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
8885 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
8886 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
8887 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
8888 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
8889 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
8891 o Minor features (geoIP):
8892 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
8895 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8896 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
8897 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
8898 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
8899 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8900 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
8901 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
8903 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8904 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
8905 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
8908 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
8909 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
8910 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
8911 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
8913 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8914 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
8915 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
8916 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
8917 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
8918 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
8919 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
8920 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
8921 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
8922 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
8923 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
8927 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
8928 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
8932 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
8933 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
8934 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
8935 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
8936 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
8938 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
8939 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
8940 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
8941 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
8943 o Major features (security, hidden services):
8944 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
8945 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
8946 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
8947 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
8948 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
8949 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
8950 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
8952 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
8953 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
8954 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
8955 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
8956 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
8957 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
8960 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
8961 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
8962 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
8963 available. Implements ticket 16535.
8964 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
8965 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
8968 o Major features (performance testing):
8969 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
8970 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
8971 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
8973 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
8974 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
8975 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
8976 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
8978 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
8979 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
8980 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
8981 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
8982 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
8983 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
8985 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
8986 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
8988 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
8989 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
8990 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
8991 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
8992 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
8994 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
8995 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
8996 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
8997 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
8998 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
8999 own. Implements feature 15482.
9000 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
9001 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
9003 o Minor features (compilation):
9004 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
9005 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
9006 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
9007 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
9008 which started requiring ECC.
9010 o Minor features (geoip):
9011 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
9014 o Minor features (hidden services):
9015 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
9016 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
9017 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
9018 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
9019 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
9020 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
9021 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
9022 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
9024 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
9025 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
9026 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
9029 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
9030 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
9031 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
9032 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
9034 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
9035 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
9036 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
9037 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
9038 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
9040 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
9041 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
9042 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
9043 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
9044 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9045 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
9046 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
9047 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
9048 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
9049 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
9050 Related to ticket 16069.
9051 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
9052 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
9053 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
9054 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
9055 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
9056 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9058 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
9059 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
9060 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9061 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
9062 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
9064 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
9065 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
9066 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9068 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
9069 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
9070 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
9071 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9073 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9074 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
9075 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
9076 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
9077 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
9079 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9080 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
9081 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
9082 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
9083 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
9084 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
9085 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
9086 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
9087 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
9088 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
9089 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
9092 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
9093 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
9094 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9096 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9097 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
9098 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9099 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
9100 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9102 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
9103 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
9104 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
9105 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
9107 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9108 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
9109 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
9111 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
9112 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9113 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
9114 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
9115 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
9116 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9117 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
9118 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9120 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9121 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
9122 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
9123 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
9124 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
9126 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
9127 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
9130 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9131 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
9132 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
9133 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
9134 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
9135 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
9136 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
9137 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
9138 function. Closes ticket 16763.
9139 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
9140 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
9141 suite of other microdesc functions.
9142 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
9143 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
9144 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
9145 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
9146 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
9147 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
9148 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
9149 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
9150 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
9151 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
9153 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
9154 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
9156 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
9159 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
9160 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
9161 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
9162 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
9166 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
9167 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
9168 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
9169 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
9170 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
9171 Closes ticket 13338.
9172 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
9173 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
9174 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
9175 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
9176 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
9177 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
9180 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
9181 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
9182 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
9183 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
9184 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
9185 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
9186 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
9188 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
9189 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
9190 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
9191 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
9192 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
9193 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
9194 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
9195 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
9196 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
9197 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
9198 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
9199 network before we begin.
9200 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
9201 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
9202 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
9203 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
9204 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
9205 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
9206 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
9207 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
9210 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
9211 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
9212 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
9213 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
9214 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
9215 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
9217 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
9218 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
9219 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
9221 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
9222 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
9223 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
9224 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
9225 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
9226 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
9227 Implements part of ticket 12498.
9228 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
9229 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
9230 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
9231 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
9232 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
9233 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
9234 part of ticket 12498.
9235 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
9236 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
9237 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
9238 key). Closes ticket 13642.
9240 o Major features (Hidden services):
9241 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
9242 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
9243 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
9244 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
9245 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
9247 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
9248 introduction points, which used to change the number of
9249 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
9250 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
9252 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
9253 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
9254 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
9255 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
9256 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
9257 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
9259 o Major features (performance):
9260 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
9261 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
9262 Implements ticket 16467.
9263 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
9264 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
9265 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
9266 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
9268 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
9269 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
9270 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
9271 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
9272 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
9273 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
9275 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
9276 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
9277 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
9278 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
9279 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
9280 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
9281 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
9282 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
9285 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
9286 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
9287 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
9288 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
9289 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
9290 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
9291 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
9294 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
9295 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
9296 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
9297 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
9298 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
9299 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
9301 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
9302 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
9303 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
9304 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
9305 by "cypherpunks_backup".
9306 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
9307 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
9308 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
9311 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
9312 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
9313 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
9314 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
9315 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
9316 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
9317 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
9319 o Minor features (client):
9320 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
9321 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
9322 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
9324 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
9325 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
9326 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
9327 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9328 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
9329 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
9330 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
9333 o Minor features (control protocol):
9334 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
9335 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
9337 o Minor features (directory authorities):
9338 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
9339 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
9340 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
9341 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
9342 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
9344 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
9345 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
9346 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
9348 o Minor features (hidden services):
9349 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
9350 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
9351 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
9352 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
9355 o Minor features (portability):
9356 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
9357 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
9358 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
9360 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
9361 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
9362 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
9363 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
9365 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9366 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
9367 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
9368 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9370 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
9371 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
9372 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
9373 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
9374 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
9375 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
9377 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
9378 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
9379 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
9380 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9381 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
9382 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
9383 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9385 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9386 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
9387 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9389 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
9390 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
9391 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
9392 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
9394 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
9395 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
9396 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
9397 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
9399 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
9400 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
9403 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9404 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
9405 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
9408 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
9409 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
9410 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9411 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
9412 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
9413 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
9415 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
9416 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
9417 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9419 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
9420 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
9421 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
9423 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
9424 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
9425 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9426 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
9427 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9428 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
9429 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
9430 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
9431 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9433 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9434 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
9435 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
9436 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
9437 haven't supported that in ages.
9438 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
9439 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
9440 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
9441 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
9444 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
9445 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
9446 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
9447 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
9448 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
9449 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
9452 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
9453 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
9454 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
9455 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
9456 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
9457 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
9458 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
9459 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
9460 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
9461 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
9462 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
9463 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
9464 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
9465 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
9466 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
9467 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
9468 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
9471 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
9472 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
9473 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
9474 Closes ticket 15817.
9475 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
9476 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
9478 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
9479 default as a part of "make check".
9480 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
9481 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
9482 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
9483 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
9487 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
9488 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
9489 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
9490 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
9491 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
9492 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
9494 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
9495 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
9496 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
9497 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
9498 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
9499 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
9500 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
9501 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
9504 o Major bugfixes (stability):
9505 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
9506 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
9507 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
9508 by "cypherpunks_backup".
9509 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
9510 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
9511 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
9514 o Minor features (geoip):
9515 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
9516 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
9518 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
9519 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
9520 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
9521 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
9522 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
9523 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
9525 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9526 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
9527 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
9528 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
9531 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
9532 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
9533 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
9534 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
9535 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
9537 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
9538 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
9539 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
9540 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
9541 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
9544 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
9545 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
9546 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
9547 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
9548 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
9549 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
9550 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
9552 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9553 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
9554 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
9555 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
9557 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9558 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
9559 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
9560 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
9561 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
9562 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
9565 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
9566 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
9567 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
9570 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
9571 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
9572 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
9573 authorities should upgrade.
9575 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
9576 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
9577 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
9578 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
9581 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
9582 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
9583 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
9586 o Minor features (geoip):
9587 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
9588 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
9592 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
9593 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
9594 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
9595 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
9596 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
9597 the hidden services subsystem.
9599 o New system requirements:
9600 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
9601 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
9604 o Major features (controller):
9605 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
9606 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
9608 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
9609 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
9610 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
9611 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
9612 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
9613 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
9614 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
9616 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
9617 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
9618 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
9619 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
9622 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
9623 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
9624 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
9625 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
9626 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
9628 o Minor features (command-line interface):
9629 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
9630 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9631 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
9632 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
9634 o Minor features (controller):
9635 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
9636 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
9637 present. Implements ticket 14840.
9638 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
9639 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
9640 Closes ticket 14845.
9641 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
9642 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
9643 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
9645 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
9646 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
9647 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
9648 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
9650 o Minor features (geoip):
9651 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
9652 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
9655 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
9656 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
9657 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
9658 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
9659 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
9660 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
9661 Closes ticket 15745.
9663 o Minor features (logging):
9664 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
9665 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
9668 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
9669 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
9670 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
9671 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
9673 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
9674 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
9675 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
9676 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
9677 Resolves ticket 15435.
9679 o Minor features (testing):
9680 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
9681 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
9682 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
9683 files. Closes ticket 15180.
9684 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
9685 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
9686 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
9687 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
9688 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
9689 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
9690 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
9691 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
9692 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
9693 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
9694 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
9695 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
9697 o Minor bugfixes (build):
9698 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
9699 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
9702 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
9703 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
9704 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
9706 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
9709 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
9710 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
9711 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
9712 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
9713 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
9714 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
9715 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
9716 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
9718 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9719 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
9720 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
9722 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
9723 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
9724 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
9727 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
9728 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
9729 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
9731 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
9732 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9734 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
9735 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
9736 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
9737 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
9740 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
9741 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
9742 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
9743 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
9744 recent enough Clang.
9746 o Minor bugfixes (network):
9747 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
9748 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
9749 unsuitable for public communications.
9751 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
9752 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
9753 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
9754 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
9755 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
9756 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
9758 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
9759 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
9760 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
9761 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
9762 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
9763 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
9764 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
9765 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
9767 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9768 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
9769 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
9771 - Set the severity correctly when testing
9772 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
9773 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
9774 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
9775 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
9777 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9778 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
9779 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
9781 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
9782 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
9783 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
9784 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
9785 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
9788 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
9789 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
9791 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
9792 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9793 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
9794 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
9795 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
9798 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
9799 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
9800 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
9801 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
9802 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
9803 Closes ticket 14922.
9806 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
9807 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
9808 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
9809 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
9810 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
9811 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
9812 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
9813 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
9814 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
9815 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
9816 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
9819 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
9820 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
9821 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
9822 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
9823 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
9825 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
9826 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
9828 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
9829 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
9830 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
9831 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
9832 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
9833 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
9834 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
9836 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
9837 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
9838 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
9839 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
9840 Resolves ticket 15515.
9843 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
9844 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
9845 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
9846 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
9847 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
9849 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
9850 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
9852 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
9853 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
9854 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
9855 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
9856 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
9857 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
9858 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
9860 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
9861 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
9862 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
9863 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
9864 Resolves ticket 15515.
9867 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
9868 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
9869 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
9870 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
9871 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
9873 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
9874 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
9876 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
9877 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
9878 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
9879 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
9880 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
9881 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
9882 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
9884 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
9885 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
9886 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
9887 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
9888 Resolves ticket 15515.
9889 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
9890 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
9891 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
9895 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
9896 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
9898 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
9899 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
9900 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
9901 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
9902 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
9903 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
9904 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
9905 bugs should be addressed.
9907 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9908 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
9909 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
9910 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
9912 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
9913 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
9914 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
9916 o Major bugfixes (client):
9917 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
9918 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
9921 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
9922 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
9923 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
9924 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
9925 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
9926 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9928 o Major bugfixes (portability):
9929 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
9930 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
9933 o Minor features (heartbeat):
9934 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
9935 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
9936 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
9937 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
9939 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9940 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
9941 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
9944 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
9945 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
9947 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
9948 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
9949 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
9951 o Directory authority changes:
9952 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
9953 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
9954 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
9955 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
9956 closes ticket 14487.
9958 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
9959 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
9960 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
9963 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
9964 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
9965 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
9966 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
9967 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
9968 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
9969 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
9970 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9972 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
9973 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
9974 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
9975 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
9977 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9978 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
9979 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
9980 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
9982 o Minor features (controller):
9983 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
9984 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
9985 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
9987 o Minor features (geoip):
9988 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
9989 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
9992 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
9993 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
9994 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
9995 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
9996 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
9997 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9999 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10000 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
10001 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
10002 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
10004 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
10005 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
10006 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
10007 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
10008 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
10009 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
10010 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
10011 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10013 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
10014 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
10015 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
10017 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
10018 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
10019 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
10020 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
10021 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
10025 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
10026 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
10027 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
10030 o Directory authority changes:
10031 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
10032 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
10033 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
10034 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
10035 closes ticket 14487.
10037 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
10038 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
10039 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
10040 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
10042 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
10043 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
10044 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
10045 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
10046 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
10047 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
10048 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
10049 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10051 o Minor features (geoip):
10052 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
10053 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
10056 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
10057 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
10058 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
10059 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
10060 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
10062 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
10063 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
10064 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
10067 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
10068 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
10069 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
10070 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
10071 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
10072 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
10073 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
10074 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10076 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
10077 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
10078 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
10081 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10082 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
10083 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
10085 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
10086 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10087 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
10088 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
10089 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
10091 o Minor features (controller):
10092 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
10093 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
10094 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
10096 o Minor features (geoip):
10097 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
10098 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
10101 o Minor features (logs):
10102 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
10105 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
10106 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
10107 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
10108 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10109 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
10110 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
10111 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
10112 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
10113 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
10115 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10116 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
10118 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
10121 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10122 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
10123 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
10125 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
10126 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
10127 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
10128 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
10129 from "cypherpunks".
10130 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
10131 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
10134 o Directory authority IP change:
10135 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
10136 closes ticket 14487.
10139 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
10140 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
10141 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
10145 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
10146 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
10147 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
10148 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
10149 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
10150 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
10152 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
10153 the next version will be a release candidate.
10155 o Deprecated versions:
10156 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
10157 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
10159 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
10160 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
10161 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
10162 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
10163 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
10164 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
10166 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
10167 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
10168 Implements ticket 11485.
10170 o Major features (changed defaults):
10171 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
10172 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
10173 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
10174 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
10175 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
10176 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
10178 o Major features (directory system):
10179 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
10180 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
10181 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
10182 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
10183 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
10184 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
10185 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
10186 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
10187 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
10188 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
10189 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
10190 227. Closes ticket 10395.
10192 o Major features (guards):
10193 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
10194 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
10195 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
10196 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
10197 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
10199 o Major features (performance):
10200 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
10201 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
10202 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
10203 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
10204 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
10205 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
10206 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
10207 Implements ticket 9682.
10209 o Major features (relay):
10210 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
10211 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
10212 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
10214 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
10215 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
10216 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
10217 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
10219 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
10220 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
10221 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
10222 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
10223 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
10224 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
10225 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
10227 o Minor features (build):
10228 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
10229 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
10230 Resolves ticket 13037.
10232 o Minor features (controller):
10233 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
10234 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
10236 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
10237 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
10238 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
10239 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
10240 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
10241 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
10243 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
10244 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
10245 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
10246 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
10247 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
10248 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
10249 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
10250 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
10251 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
10252 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
10254 o Minor features (geoip):
10255 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
10256 GeoLite2 Country database.
10258 o Minor features (guard nodes):
10259 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
10260 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
10261 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
10263 o Minor features (hidden service):
10264 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
10265 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
10266 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
10267 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
10268 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
10269 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
10270 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
10271 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
10273 o Minor features (interface):
10274 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
10275 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
10276 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
10278 o Minor features (logging):
10279 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
10280 Resolves ticket 6852.
10281 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
10282 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
10283 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
10285 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
10286 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
10288 o Minor features (stability):
10289 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
10290 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
10293 o Minor features (systemd):
10294 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
10295 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
10297 o Minor features (testing networks):
10298 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
10299 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
10300 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
10301 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
10302 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
10303 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
10305 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
10306 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
10307 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
10308 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
10309 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
10311 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
10312 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
10313 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
10314 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
10315 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
10317 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
10318 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
10319 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
10320 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
10321 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
10322 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
10323 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
10324 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10326 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
10327 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
10328 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
10329 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10330 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
10331 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10332 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
10333 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
10335 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
10336 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
10337 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
10340 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
10341 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
10342 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
10343 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
10344 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
10346 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
10347 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
10348 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
10349 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
10350 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10352 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10353 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
10354 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
10355 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
10356 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
10357 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
10358 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
10359 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
10360 Addresses ticket 14188.
10361 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
10362 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
10363 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
10364 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
10365 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
10366 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
10367 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
10368 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
10369 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10371 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10372 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
10373 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
10374 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
10375 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
10376 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
10377 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
10378 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10380 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
10381 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
10382 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
10383 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
10384 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
10385 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
10386 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
10387 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10388 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
10389 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10390 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
10391 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
10392 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10394 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
10395 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
10396 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
10397 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
10398 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
10399 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
10400 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
10401 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
10402 state, and key files.
10403 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
10404 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
10407 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10408 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
10409 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
10410 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
10411 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10412 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
10413 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
10414 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10415 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
10416 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
10417 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10419 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10420 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
10421 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10422 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
10424 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
10425 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10427 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
10428 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
10429 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
10430 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
10431 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
10432 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
10434 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
10435 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
10436 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
10437 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10438 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
10439 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
10440 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10441 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
10442 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
10443 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10445 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10446 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
10447 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
10449 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
10450 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
10452 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
10453 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
10454 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
10455 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
10456 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10458 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
10459 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
10460 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
10461 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
10464 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
10465 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
10466 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
10469 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
10470 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
10471 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
10473 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
10474 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
10475 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
10476 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
10477 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
10478 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
10479 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
10481 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
10482 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
10485 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
10486 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
10487 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
10489 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
10490 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
10491 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
10494 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10495 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
10496 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
10497 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
10498 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
10499 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
10500 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
10501 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
10502 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
10504 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
10505 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
10507 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
10511 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
10512 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
10513 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
10514 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
10515 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
10516 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
10518 o Downgraded warnings:
10519 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
10520 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
10522 o Removed features:
10523 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
10524 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
10525 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
10526 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
10527 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
10531 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
10532 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10533 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
10534 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
10535 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
10536 (existing behavior).
10537 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
10538 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
10539 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
10540 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
10541 Closes ticket 14107.
10542 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
10543 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
10544 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
10545 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
10547 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
10548 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
10549 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10552 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
10553 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
10554 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
10555 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
10556 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
10557 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
10559 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
10560 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
10561 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
10562 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
10564 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
10565 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
10566 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
10567 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
10568 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
10569 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
10571 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
10572 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
10573 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
10574 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
10575 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
10576 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
10577 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
10580 o Major features (hidden services):
10581 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
10582 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
10583 Closes ticket 13667.
10584 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
10585 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
10586 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
10587 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
10588 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
10589 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
10590 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
10591 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
10592 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
10593 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
10594 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
10596 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
10597 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
10598 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
10599 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
10600 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
10601 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
10604 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
10605 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
10606 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
10607 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
10608 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
10609 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
10611 o Directory authority changes:
10612 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
10613 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
10614 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
10616 o Major removed features:
10617 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
10618 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
10619 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
10620 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
10622 o Minor features (client):
10623 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
10624 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
10625 Resolves ticket 13315.
10627 o Minor features (controller):
10628 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
10629 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
10632 o Minor features (geoip):
10633 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
10636 o Minor features (hidden services):
10637 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
10638 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
10639 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
10640 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
10641 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
10642 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
10644 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
10645 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
10646 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
10648 o Minor features (systemd):
10649 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
10650 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
10651 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
10652 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
10654 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
10655 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
10656 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
10657 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
10658 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
10661 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
10662 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
10663 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
10664 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
10665 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
10667 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
10668 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
10669 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
10672 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
10673 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
10674 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
10675 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
10676 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
10678 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
10679 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
10680 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10682 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10683 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
10684 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
10685 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
10686 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
10688 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
10689 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
10692 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10693 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
10694 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
10695 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
10696 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
10697 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
10698 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
10699 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
10700 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10701 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
10702 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
10703 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
10704 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
10705 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
10708 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10709 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
10710 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
10711 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
10712 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
10713 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
10715 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10716 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
10717 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
10718 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
10720 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
10721 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10723 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
10724 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
10725 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
10726 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
10729 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
10730 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
10731 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
10732 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
10733 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
10734 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
10736 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
10737 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
10738 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
10739 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
10740 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10741 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
10742 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
10743 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
10744 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
10745 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
10746 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
10747 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
10748 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
10749 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
10750 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
10751 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
10752 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
10753 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
10754 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
10755 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10756 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
10757 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
10758 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
10759 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
10760 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
10761 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
10762 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
10763 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10764 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
10765 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
10766 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
10767 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
10769 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
10770 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
10771 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
10772 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
10773 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10775 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10776 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
10777 with a function instead.
10778 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
10779 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
10780 Closes ticket 13172.
10781 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
10782 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
10783 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
10784 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
10785 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
10786 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
10787 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
10788 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
10789 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
10790 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
10791 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
10792 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
10796 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
10797 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
10798 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
10799 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
10800 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
10801 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
10802 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
10803 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
10804 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
10805 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
10806 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
10807 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
10810 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
10811 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
10812 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
10813 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
10814 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
10815 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
10817 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
10821 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
10822 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
10823 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
10824 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
10825 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
10826 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
10827 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
10828 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
10829 of introducing infinite download loops.
10831 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
10832 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
10833 with 0.2.5.x for now.
10835 o New compiler and system requirements:
10836 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
10837 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
10838 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
10839 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
10841 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
10842 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
10843 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
10844 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
10845 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
10846 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
10847 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
10848 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
10849 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
10851 o Removed platform support:
10852 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
10853 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
10854 Closes ticket 11446.
10856 o Major features (bridges):
10857 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
10858 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
10859 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
10862 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
10863 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
10864 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
10865 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
10868 o Major features (directory system):
10869 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
10870 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
10871 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
10872 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
10874 o Major features (sample torrc):
10875 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
10876 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
10877 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
10878 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
10879 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
10880 generally useful "sample torrc".
10882 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
10883 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
10884 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10886 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
10887 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
10888 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
10889 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
10890 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
10892 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
10893 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
10894 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
10895 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
10897 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
10898 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
10899 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
10900 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
10901 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
10902 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
10905 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
10906 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
10907 document. Implements feature 10427.
10909 o Minor features (client):
10910 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
10911 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
10912 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
10913 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
10915 o Minor features (directory authorities):
10916 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
10917 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
10918 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
10919 argument more than once.
10920 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
10921 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
10922 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
10923 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
10924 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
10925 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
10927 o Minor features (logging):
10928 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
10929 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
10930 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
10931 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
10932 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
10933 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
10934 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
10935 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
10936 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
10938 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
10939 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
10940 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
10941 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
10943 o Minor features (relay):
10944 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
10945 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
10946 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
10948 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
10949 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
10950 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
10951 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
10953 o Minor features (testing networks):
10954 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
10955 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
10956 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
10957 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
10958 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
10961 o Minor features (validation):
10962 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
10963 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
10964 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
10965 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
10966 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
10967 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
10968 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
10969 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
10971 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
10972 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
10973 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
10974 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
10976 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
10977 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
10978 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
10979 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
10981 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
10982 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
10983 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
10985 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
10986 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
10987 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
10989 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
10990 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10991 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
10992 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
10993 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
10994 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
10995 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
10997 o Minor bugfixes (client):
10998 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
10999 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
11000 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
11001 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
11002 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
11003 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
11004 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
11005 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
11007 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
11008 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
11009 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
11010 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
11011 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
11013 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
11014 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
11015 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
11017 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11018 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
11019 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
11020 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
11021 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
11023 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
11024 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
11025 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
11026 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11027 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
11028 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
11029 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11030 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
11031 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
11032 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
11033 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
11036 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
11037 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
11038 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
11039 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
11040 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11042 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11043 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
11044 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
11045 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
11046 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
11049 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
11050 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
11051 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11052 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
11053 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
11054 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
11056 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11057 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
11058 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
11059 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
11061 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
11062 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
11063 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
11064 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
11066 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
11067 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
11068 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
11069 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
11072 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
11073 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
11074 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
11077 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
11078 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11079 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
11080 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
11081 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
11084 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11085 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
11086 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
11088 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
11089 Resolves ticket 12205.
11090 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
11091 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
11092 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
11093 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
11095 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
11096 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
11097 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
11099 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
11100 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
11102 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
11103 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
11104 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
11105 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
11106 or_options_t structure.
11109 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
11110 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
11111 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
11112 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
11115 o Removed features:
11116 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
11117 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
11118 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
11119 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
11120 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
11121 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
11122 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
11123 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
11124 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
11126 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
11127 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
11129 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
11130 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
11131 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
11132 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
11133 anymore, and ignore it.
11136 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
11137 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
11138 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
11139 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
11140 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
11141 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
11142 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
11143 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
11144 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
11145 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
11146 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
11147 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
11149 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
11150 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
11151 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
11153 o Distribution (systemd):
11154 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
11155 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
11156 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
11157 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
11158 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
11160 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
11161 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
11163 o Removed features (directory authorities):
11164 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
11165 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
11166 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
11167 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
11168 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
11169 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
11170 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
11171 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
11172 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
11174 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
11175 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
11176 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
11177 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
11180 o Testing (test-network.sh):
11181 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
11182 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
11184 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
11186 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
11187 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
11188 Partially implements ticket 13161.
11191 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
11192 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
11194 It adds several new security features, including improved
11195 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
11196 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
11197 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
11198 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
11199 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
11200 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
11201 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
11202 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
11203 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
11204 and features mentioned below.
11206 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
11207 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
11209 o Deprecated versions:
11210 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
11211 attention for some while.
11214 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
11215 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
11216 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
11217 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
11218 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
11219 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
11221 o Major security fixes:
11222 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
11223 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
11224 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
11226 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
11227 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
11228 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
11229 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
11232 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
11233 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
11234 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
11235 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
11237 o Compilation fixes:
11238 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
11239 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
11240 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
11242 o Downgraded warnings:
11243 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
11244 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
11247 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
11248 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
11249 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
11250 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
11251 (which does affect Tor).
11253 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
11254 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
11255 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
11256 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
11258 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
11259 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
11260 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
11261 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
11264 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
11265 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
11266 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
11267 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
11268 the directory authorities.
11271 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
11272 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
11273 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
11274 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
11275 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
11276 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
11277 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
11278 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
11279 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
11280 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
11281 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
11282 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
11284 o Directory authority changes:
11285 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
11288 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
11289 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
11290 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
11291 the directory authorities.
11294 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
11295 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
11296 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
11297 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
11298 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
11299 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
11300 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
11301 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
11302 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
11303 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
11304 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
11305 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
11307 o Directory authority changes:
11308 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
11310 o Minor features (geoip):
11311 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
11315 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
11316 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
11317 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
11318 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
11319 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
11321 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
11322 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
11323 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
11324 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
11325 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
11326 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
11327 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11328 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
11329 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
11330 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
11331 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
11332 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
11333 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
11334 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11335 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
11336 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
11338 o Major bugfixes (relay):
11339 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
11340 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11341 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
11342 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
11343 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
11344 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
11345 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11347 o Minor features (bridge):
11348 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
11349 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
11351 o Minor features (geoip):
11352 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
11355 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11356 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
11357 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
11358 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
11359 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
11360 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
11361 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
11362 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
11363 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
11364 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
11365 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
11366 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
11367 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
11368 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
11369 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
11371 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
11372 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
11373 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
11374 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
11375 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
11377 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11378 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
11379 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11380 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
11381 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
11384 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11385 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
11386 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
11387 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
11388 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
11389 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
11390 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
11391 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
11392 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
11393 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
11394 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
11397 o Distribution (systemd):
11398 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
11399 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
11400 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
11401 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
11402 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
11403 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
11404 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
11405 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
11406 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
11410 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
11411 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
11413 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
11417 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
11418 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
11419 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
11420 us closer to a release candidate.
11422 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
11423 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
11424 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
11425 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
11426 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
11428 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
11429 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
11430 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
11431 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
11432 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
11433 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
11434 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
11435 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
11436 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
11440 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
11441 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
11442 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
11443 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
11444 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
11445 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
11446 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
11447 to build circuits".
11450 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
11451 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
11452 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
11453 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
11454 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
11455 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
11456 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
11457 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
11459 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
11461 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
11462 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
11463 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
11464 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
11465 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
11466 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
11467 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
11468 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
11469 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
11470 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11473 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
11474 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
11475 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
11476 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
11478 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
11479 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
11480 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
11483 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
11484 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
11485 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
11486 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
11489 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
11490 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
11491 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
11492 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
11493 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
11494 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
11495 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
11496 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
11497 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
11498 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
11501 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
11502 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
11503 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
11504 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
11505 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
11506 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
11507 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
11508 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
11512 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
11513 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
11514 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
11515 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
11516 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
11517 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
11518 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
11519 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
11520 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11521 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
11522 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
11523 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
11524 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
11527 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
11531 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
11532 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
11533 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
11534 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
11535 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
11536 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
11539 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
11540 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
11541 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
11542 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
11543 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
11544 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
11545 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
11546 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
11547 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
11548 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
11549 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
11550 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
11551 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11553 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
11554 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
11555 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
11556 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
11559 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
11560 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
11561 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
11563 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
11564 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
11565 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
11566 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
11567 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
11568 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
11569 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
11570 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
11571 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
11572 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
11573 router's identity is not forgeable.
11575 o Major bugfixes (relay):
11576 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
11577 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
11578 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
11579 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11580 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
11581 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
11582 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
11583 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
11584 bugfix on every version of Tor.
11586 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
11587 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
11588 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
11589 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
11592 o Minor features (diagnostic):
11593 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
11594 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
11595 help diagnose bug 7164.
11596 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
11597 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
11598 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
11599 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
11600 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
11602 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
11603 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
11604 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
11605 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
11606 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
11607 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
11608 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
11610 o Minor features (security, memory management):
11611 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
11612 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
11613 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
11614 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
11615 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
11616 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
11618 o Minor features (security):
11619 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
11620 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
11621 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
11622 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
11624 o Minor features (build):
11625 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
11626 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
11627 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
11629 o Minor features (other):
11630 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
11633 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
11634 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
11635 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
11636 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
11637 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
11639 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
11640 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
11641 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
11642 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
11643 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
11644 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
11645 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
11646 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
11647 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
11648 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
11649 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
11650 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
11652 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11653 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
11654 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
11655 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
11656 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
11657 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
11658 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
11659 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
11660 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
11661 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
11662 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
11663 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
11664 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
11665 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
11666 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
11667 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
11668 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
11669 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
11672 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
11673 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
11674 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
11675 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
11676 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
11677 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
11678 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
11680 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
11681 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
11682 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11683 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
11684 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11685 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
11686 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11687 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
11688 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
11690 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
11691 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
11693 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
11694 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
11696 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
11697 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
11698 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11699 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
11700 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
11701 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11702 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
11703 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
11704 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
11706 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
11707 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
11708 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
11709 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
11710 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
11711 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11712 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
11713 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
11714 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11715 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
11716 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
11717 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11718 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
11719 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
11720 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
11721 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
11722 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
11723 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11725 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
11726 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
11727 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
11728 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
11729 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
11730 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11731 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
11732 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
11733 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
11736 o Minor bugfixes (client):
11737 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
11738 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
11739 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
11740 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
11742 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11743 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
11744 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
11745 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
11747 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
11748 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
11749 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
11750 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11751 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
11752 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
11753 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
11754 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
11756 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
11757 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
11758 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
11759 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
11762 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
11763 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
11764 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
11765 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
11766 versions. Found by "skruffy".
11767 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
11768 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
11769 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
11772 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
11773 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
11774 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
11775 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
11778 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
11779 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
11780 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
11781 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
11783 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
11784 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
11785 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
11787 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
11788 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
11789 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11791 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11792 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
11793 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
11794 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
11795 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
11799 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
11800 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
11801 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
11802 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
11805 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
11806 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
11807 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
11808 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
11810 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
11811 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
11813 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
11814 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
11815 caches don't get confused.
11818 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
11819 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
11820 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
11821 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
11822 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
11825 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
11826 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
11827 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
11828 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
11829 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
11830 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
11834 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
11835 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
11836 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
11837 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
11838 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
11839 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
11840 of RAM, and several others.
11842 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
11843 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
11844 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
11845 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
11846 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
11848 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
11849 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
11850 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
11851 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
11854 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
11855 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
11856 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
11857 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
11858 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
11859 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
11860 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11861 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
11862 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
11863 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
11864 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
11865 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
11866 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
11867 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
11868 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
11869 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
11870 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
11871 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
11872 Resolves ticket 11438.
11874 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
11875 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
11876 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
11877 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
11878 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
11879 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
11881 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
11882 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
11883 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
11885 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
11886 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
11887 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11889 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
11890 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
11891 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
11892 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11894 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
11895 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
11896 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
11898 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11899 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
11900 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
11903 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
11904 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
11905 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
11906 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
11909 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
11910 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
11911 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
11912 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
11914 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
11915 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
11916 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
11917 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
11919 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
11920 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
11921 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
11925 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
11926 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
11927 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
11928 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
11929 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
11930 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
11931 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
11932 the Linux sandbox code.
11934 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
11935 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
11936 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
11938 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
11939 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
11941 o Major features (security):
11942 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
11943 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
11944 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
11945 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
11946 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
11947 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
11948 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
11949 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
11951 o Major features (relay performance):
11952 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
11953 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
11954 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
11955 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
11956 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
11957 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
11958 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
11959 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
11960 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
11961 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
11963 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
11964 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
11965 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
11966 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
11967 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
11968 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
11969 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
11971 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
11972 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
11974 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
11975 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
11976 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
11977 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
11978 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
11979 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
11980 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11981 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
11982 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
11983 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
11984 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
11985 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
11986 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
11987 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
11988 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
11989 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
11990 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
11991 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
11992 Resolves ticket 11438.
11994 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
11995 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
11996 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
11997 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11999 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
12000 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
12001 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
12002 10267; patch from "yurivict".
12003 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
12004 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
12005 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
12006 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
12007 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
12008 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
12010 o Minor features (security):
12011 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
12012 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
12013 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
12014 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
12017 o Minor features (log verbosity):
12018 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
12019 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
12020 Resolves ticket 5286.
12021 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
12022 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
12023 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
12024 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
12025 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
12026 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
12027 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
12028 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
12029 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
12031 o Minor features (relay):
12032 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
12033 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
12034 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
12036 o Minor features (controller):
12037 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
12038 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
12040 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
12041 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
12042 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
12044 o Minor features (bridge client):
12045 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
12046 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
12047 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
12049 o Minor features (diagnostic):
12050 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
12051 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
12052 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
12053 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
12054 still referenced by a live node_t object.
12056 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
12057 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
12058 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
12059 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
12061 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
12062 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
12063 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
12064 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
12067 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
12068 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
12069 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12071 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
12072 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
12073 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
12074 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12075 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
12076 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
12077 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
12079 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
12080 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
12081 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
12082 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12083 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
12084 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
12085 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
12086 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
12087 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
12088 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
12089 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12090 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
12091 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
12094 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
12095 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
12096 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
12097 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
12098 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
12100 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
12101 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
12102 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
12105 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12106 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
12107 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
12109 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
12110 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
12111 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
12113 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
12114 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
12115 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
12116 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
12118 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
12119 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
12120 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
12121 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
12122 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
12124 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
12125 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
12126 early. Fixes bug 10081.
12128 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
12129 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
12130 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
12131 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
12132 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12133 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
12134 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
12135 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
12137 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
12138 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
12139 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
12140 should never have affected anyone in practice.
12142 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
12143 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
12144 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12146 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
12147 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
12148 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
12149 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
12150 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
12151 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
12152 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
12153 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
12154 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
12155 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
12156 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
12157 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
12158 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
12159 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
12161 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
12162 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
12163 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
12164 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
12165 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
12166 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
12167 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
12168 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
12172 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
12173 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
12174 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
12175 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12176 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
12177 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12178 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
12179 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
12181 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
12183 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12184 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
12185 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
12186 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
12187 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
12190 o Deprecated versions:
12191 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
12192 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
12193 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
12194 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
12197 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
12198 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
12199 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
12200 Patch from Dana Koch.
12203 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
12204 Resolves ticket 11070.
12207 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
12208 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
12209 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
12210 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
12211 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
12214 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
12215 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
12217 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
12218 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
12219 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
12220 streams attached to each circuit.
12222 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
12223 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
12224 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
12225 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
12226 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
12227 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
12228 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
12229 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
12230 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
12231 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
12232 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
12233 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
12234 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
12236 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
12237 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
12238 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
12240 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
12241 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
12242 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
12243 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
12244 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
12245 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
12246 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
12247 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
12248 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
12250 o Minor features (other):
12251 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
12252 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
12253 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
12254 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
12255 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
12256 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
12257 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
12258 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
12259 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
12262 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
12263 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
12264 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
12265 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
12266 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
12267 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
12268 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
12269 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
12271 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12272 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
12273 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
12274 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
12275 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12276 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
12277 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
12278 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
12280 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
12281 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
12282 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
12283 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
12284 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
12285 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
12286 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
12287 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
12288 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
12289 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
12290 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
12291 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12293 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
12294 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
12295 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
12296 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
12297 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
12298 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
12299 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
12300 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
12301 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
12302 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
12303 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
12304 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
12305 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
12306 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
12308 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
12309 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
12311 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
12312 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
12313 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
12314 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
12315 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
12316 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
12317 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12318 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
12319 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
12320 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
12321 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
12322 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12323 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
12324 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
12326 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
12327 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
12328 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
12329 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
12332 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
12333 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
12334 the rest of bug 10841.
12337 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
12338 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
12339 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
12340 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
12341 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
12342 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
12343 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
12344 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
12345 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
12346 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
12347 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
12348 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
12349 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
12350 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
12351 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12353 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12354 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
12355 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
12357 o Test infrastructure:
12358 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
12359 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
12360 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
12361 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
12364 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
12365 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
12366 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
12367 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
12369 o Major features (client security):
12370 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
12371 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
12372 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
12373 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
12374 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
12375 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
12378 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
12379 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
12380 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
12381 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12383 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12384 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
12385 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
12386 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
12387 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
12390 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
12391 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
12393 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
12394 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
12395 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
12396 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
12397 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
12398 GeoLite2 Country database.
12401 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
12402 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
12403 bugfix on every released Tor.
12404 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
12405 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
12406 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
12407 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12408 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
12409 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
12410 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
12411 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
12412 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
12413 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12414 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
12415 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
12416 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12417 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
12418 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
12420 o Documentation fixes:
12421 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
12422 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
12425 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
12426 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
12427 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
12428 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
12429 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
12430 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
12431 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
12432 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
12434 o Major features (client security):
12435 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
12436 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
12437 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
12438 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
12439 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
12440 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
12441 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
12442 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
12443 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
12444 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
12445 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
12446 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
12448 o Major features (bridges):
12449 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
12450 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
12451 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
12452 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
12453 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
12454 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
12455 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
12456 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
12459 o Major features (other):
12460 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
12461 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
12462 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
12463 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
12464 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
12465 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
12466 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
12467 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
12468 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
12469 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
12470 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
12471 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
12474 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
12475 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
12476 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12477 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
12478 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
12479 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
12480 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12482 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
12483 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
12484 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
12485 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
12486 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
12487 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
12488 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
12489 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
12490 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
12492 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
12493 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12494 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
12495 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
12496 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
12497 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
12499 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
12500 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
12501 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
12502 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
12503 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
12504 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
12507 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
12508 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
12509 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
12510 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
12511 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
12512 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
12513 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
12515 o Minor features (security):
12516 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
12517 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
12520 o Minor features (config options and command line):
12521 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
12522 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
12523 Implements ticket 10060.
12524 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
12525 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
12526 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
12528 o Minor features (controller):
12529 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
12530 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
12531 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
12532 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
12533 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
12536 o Minor features (build):
12537 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
12538 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
12539 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
12540 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
12541 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
12542 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
12543 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
12545 o Minor features (testing):
12546 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
12547 the unit test scripts.
12548 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
12549 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
12550 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
12551 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
12553 o Minor features (log messages):
12554 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
12555 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
12556 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
12557 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
12558 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
12559 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
12560 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
12561 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
12562 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
12563 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
12565 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
12566 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
12567 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
12568 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
12569 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
12570 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
12571 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
12572 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
12573 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
12574 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
12576 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
12577 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
12578 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
12579 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
12582 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
12583 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
12584 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
12585 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
12586 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12588 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
12589 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
12590 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
12591 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
12592 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
12593 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
12594 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
12596 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
12597 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
12598 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
12599 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
12600 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
12601 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
12602 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12603 Reported by "mr-4".
12604 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
12605 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
12606 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
12607 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
12609 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
12610 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
12611 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
12612 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
12613 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
12614 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
12615 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
12616 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
12617 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
12618 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
12619 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12621 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12622 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
12623 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
12624 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
12625 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
12626 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
12627 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
12628 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
12629 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
12630 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
12632 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
12633 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
12634 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
12635 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
12638 o Minor bugfixes (build):
12639 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
12640 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
12641 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
12642 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
12643 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
12645 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
12646 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12648 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12649 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
12650 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
12651 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12653 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
12654 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
12655 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
12656 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
12657 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
12658 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
12659 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
12660 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
12661 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
12662 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
12663 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
12664 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
12665 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
12666 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
12668 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
12669 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
12670 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
12671 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
12672 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
12673 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
12675 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
12676 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
12677 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12678 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
12679 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
12680 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
12681 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
12682 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
12683 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
12684 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12685 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
12686 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
12688 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
12689 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
12690 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
12691 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
12692 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
12693 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
12694 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
12695 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
12696 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
12697 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
12698 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
12699 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
12700 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
12701 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
12702 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
12703 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
12706 o Removed code and features:
12707 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
12708 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
12709 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
12710 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
12711 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
12712 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
12714 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
12715 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
12716 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
12717 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
12718 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
12719 part of a fix for bug 10841.
12721 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12722 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
12723 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
12724 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
12725 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
12726 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
12727 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
12728 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
12729 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
12730 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
12731 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
12734 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
12735 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
12736 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
12737 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
12738 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
12740 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
12741 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
12742 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
12743 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
12744 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
12745 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
12746 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
12749 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
12750 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
12751 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
12754 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
12755 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
12756 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
12757 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
12758 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
12759 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
12760 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
12762 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
12763 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
12766 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
12767 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
12768 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
12769 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
12770 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
12771 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
12772 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
12773 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
12775 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
12776 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12777 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
12778 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
12779 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
12780 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
12783 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
12784 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
12785 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
12786 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
12787 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
12790 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
12791 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
12792 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
12793 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
12794 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
12795 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
12796 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
12797 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
12799 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
12800 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
12801 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
12802 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
12803 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
12804 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
12805 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
12806 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
12807 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
12808 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
12809 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
12810 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
12811 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
12812 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
12813 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
12814 security, and privacy fixes.
12817 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
12818 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
12819 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
12820 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
12823 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
12824 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
12825 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
12826 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
12827 them to solve bug 6033.)
12830 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
12831 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
12832 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
12833 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
12834 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
12835 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
12836 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
12837 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
12839 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
12840 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
12841 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
12842 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
12844 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
12845 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
12846 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12847 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
12848 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
12849 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
12850 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
12851 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
12852 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
12853 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12854 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
12855 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
12857 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
12858 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
12859 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
12860 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
12861 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
12862 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
12863 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
12864 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
12865 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
12866 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
12867 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
12868 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
12869 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
12870 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
12871 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
12872 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
12875 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
12876 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
12877 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
12878 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
12879 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
12880 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
12881 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
12882 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
12883 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
12884 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
12885 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
12886 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
12887 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
12888 Implements part of proposal 222.
12890 o Minor features (other):
12891 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
12892 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
12893 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
12894 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
12895 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
12896 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
12897 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
12898 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
12899 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
12901 o Documentation fixes:
12902 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
12903 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
12904 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
12905 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
12906 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
12907 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
12910 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
12911 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
12912 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
12913 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
12914 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
12915 release of the new branch.
12917 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
12918 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
12919 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
12921 o Major features (security):
12922 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
12923 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
12924 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
12925 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
12926 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
12927 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
12928 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
12929 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
12930 Google Summer of Code.
12931 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
12932 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
12933 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
12934 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
12935 them to solve bug 6033.)
12937 o Major features (other):
12938 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
12939 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
12940 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
12941 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
12942 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
12944 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
12945 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
12946 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
12947 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
12948 Implements ticket 8530.
12949 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
12950 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
12953 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
12954 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
12955 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
12956 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
12957 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
12958 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12959 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
12960 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
12961 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
12962 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
12963 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
12964 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
12965 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
12968 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
12969 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
12970 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
12971 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
12972 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
12973 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
12974 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
12975 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
12976 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
12977 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
12981 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
12982 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
12983 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
12984 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
12985 invoking the other functions it calls.
12986 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
12987 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
12988 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
12989 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
12991 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
12992 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
12993 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
12994 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
12995 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
12996 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
12997 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
12998 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
12999 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
13000 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
13001 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
13002 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
13003 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
13004 Implements part of proposal 222.
13006 o Minor features (config options):
13007 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
13008 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
13009 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
13010 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
13011 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
13012 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
13013 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
13014 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
13015 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
13016 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
13017 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
13018 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
13019 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
13020 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
13021 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
13022 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
13023 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
13026 o Minor features (build):
13027 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
13028 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
13029 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
13030 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
13031 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
13034 o Minor features (other):
13035 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
13036 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
13037 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
13038 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
13039 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
13040 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
13041 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
13042 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
13043 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
13044 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
13045 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
13046 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
13047 Closes ticket 8109.
13048 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
13051 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
13052 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
13053 bugfix on every released Tor.
13054 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
13055 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
13056 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
13057 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
13058 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
13059 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
13061 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
13062 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
13063 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
13064 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13065 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
13066 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
13067 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
13068 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
13070 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
13071 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
13072 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
13073 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
13074 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
13076 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
13077 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13079 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
13080 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
13081 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
13083 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
13084 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
13085 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
13086 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
13087 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13089 o Minor code improvements:
13090 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
13091 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
13093 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
13094 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
13095 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
13096 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
13097 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
13099 o Removed features:
13100 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
13101 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
13102 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
13103 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
13105 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13106 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
13107 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
13108 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
13109 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
13110 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
13111 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
13112 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
13113 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
13114 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
13115 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
13116 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
13117 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
13118 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
13119 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
13120 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
13123 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
13124 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
13125 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
13126 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
13127 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
13128 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
13129 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
13132 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
13133 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
13134 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
13135 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
13136 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
13137 Implements ticket 9574.
13140 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
13141 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
13142 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
13143 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
13144 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
13145 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
13146 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
13147 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
13148 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
13149 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
13150 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
13151 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
13155 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
13156 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
13157 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
13158 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
13160 o Minor fixes (config options):
13161 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
13162 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
13163 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
13164 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
13165 message is logged at notice, not at info.
13166 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
13167 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
13168 or we just won't work.)
13171 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
13172 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
13173 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
13174 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
13177 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
13178 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
13179 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
13182 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
13183 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
13184 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13185 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
13186 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
13187 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
13188 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
13190 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
13191 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13192 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
13193 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
13196 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
13197 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
13198 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
13199 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
13200 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
13201 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
13202 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
13203 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
13204 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
13205 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
13206 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13207 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
13208 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
13211 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
13214 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
13215 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
13216 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
13217 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
13220 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
13221 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
13222 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
13225 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
13226 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
13227 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
13230 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
13231 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
13232 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
13235 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
13236 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
13237 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
13238 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
13239 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
13240 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
13242 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
13243 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
13244 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
13245 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
13246 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
13247 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
13249 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
13250 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
13251 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
13254 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
13255 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
13256 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
13257 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
13258 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
13260 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
13261 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
13262 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
13263 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
13264 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
13265 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
13266 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
13268 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
13269 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
13270 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
13272 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
13273 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
13277 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
13278 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
13279 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
13281 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
13282 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
13283 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
13284 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
13285 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
13286 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
13288 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
13289 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
13290 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
13291 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
13292 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
13293 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
13294 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
13297 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
13298 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
13299 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
13300 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
13301 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
13302 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
13303 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
13304 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
13305 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
13306 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
13307 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
13308 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13309 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
13310 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
13312 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
13313 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
13314 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
13315 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
13318 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
13319 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
13320 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
13321 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
13322 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
13323 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
13325 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
13326 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
13330 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
13331 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
13332 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
13333 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
13334 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
13335 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
13336 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
13338 o Removed documentation:
13339 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
13340 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
13342 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13343 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
13344 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
13345 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
13348 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
13349 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
13350 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
13351 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
13352 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
13353 variety of other issues.
13356 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
13357 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
13358 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
13359 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
13360 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
13361 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
13362 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
13363 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
13365 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
13366 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
13367 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
13369 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
13370 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
13371 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
13372 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
13373 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
13374 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
13375 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
13377 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
13378 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
13379 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
13380 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
13381 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
13382 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
13383 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
13384 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
13385 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
13386 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
13387 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
13388 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
13389 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
13390 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
13391 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
13392 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
13393 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
13394 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
13395 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
13396 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
13397 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
13399 o Major bugfixes (other):
13400 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
13401 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
13402 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
13403 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13406 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
13407 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
13408 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
13409 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
13411 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
13412 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
13414 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
13416 o Minor features (build):
13417 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
13418 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
13420 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
13421 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
13423 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
13424 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
13425 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
13428 o Minor bugfixes (build):
13429 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
13430 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
13431 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13432 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
13433 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
13434 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
13435 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
13436 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
13437 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13438 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
13439 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
13440 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
13441 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
13444 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
13445 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
13446 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
13447 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
13448 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
13449 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
13450 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
13451 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
13452 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
13453 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
13454 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
13455 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
13456 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
13457 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13458 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13460 o Minor bugfixes (other):
13461 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
13462 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13463 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
13464 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
13465 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
13466 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
13467 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13468 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
13469 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
13470 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
13471 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
13472 Should help resolve bug 8235.
13473 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
13474 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
13475 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
13476 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
13478 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
13479 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
13480 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
13481 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
13482 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
13483 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
13484 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
13485 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
13488 o Minor bugfixes (config):
13489 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
13490 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
13492 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
13493 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
13494 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
13495 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
13496 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
13497 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
13498 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13499 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
13500 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
13501 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
13502 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
13503 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
13504 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
13505 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
13506 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
13509 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
13510 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
13511 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
13512 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
13513 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
13514 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
13515 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
13516 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
13518 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
13519 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
13520 or at least make it more diagnosable.
13521 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
13522 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
13523 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
13524 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13526 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
13527 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
13528 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
13529 the relaxed timeout log message.
13530 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
13531 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
13532 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
13534 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
13535 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
13536 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13537 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
13538 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
13539 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
13540 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
13543 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
13544 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
13545 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
13546 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
13547 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
13548 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
13549 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
13550 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
13551 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
13552 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
13553 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
13554 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
13555 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13556 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
13557 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
13558 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
13559 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
13561 o Documentation fixes:
13562 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
13563 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
13564 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
13565 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
13566 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
13567 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
13568 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
13569 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
13572 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
13573 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
13577 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
13578 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
13579 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
13580 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
13582 o Major features (directory authorities):
13583 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
13584 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
13585 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
13586 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
13587 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
13588 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
13589 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
13590 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
13591 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
13592 Implements ticket 8151.
13594 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
13595 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
13596 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
13597 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
13598 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
13600 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
13601 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
13602 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
13603 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
13604 whether authentication information is present, causing all
13605 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
13606 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
13608 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
13609 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
13610 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
13611 bugs 1913 and 1992.
13612 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
13613 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
13614 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
13615 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
13616 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
13617 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
13618 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
13619 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
13620 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
13621 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
13622 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
13623 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
13624 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
13625 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
13626 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
13627 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
13628 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
13629 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
13632 o Minor features (portability):
13633 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
13634 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13635 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
13636 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
13637 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
13638 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
13639 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
13640 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
13642 o Minor features (other):
13643 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
13644 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
13645 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
13646 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
13647 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
13648 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
13649 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
13650 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
13652 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
13654 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
13655 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
13656 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
13657 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
13658 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
13659 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
13660 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
13661 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
13662 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
13663 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
13665 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
13666 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
13667 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
13668 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
13670 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
13671 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
13672 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
13673 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
13674 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
13675 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
13676 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
13678 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
13679 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
13680 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
13681 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
13682 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
13684 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
13685 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
13686 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
13687 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
13689 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
13690 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
13691 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
13694 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
13695 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
13696 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
13697 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
13699 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
13700 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
13701 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
13702 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13704 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
13705 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
13706 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
13707 this is CID 718634.
13708 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
13709 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
13710 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
13711 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
13713 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
13714 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
13715 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
13716 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
13717 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
13718 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
13719 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
13721 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13722 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
13726 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
13727 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
13728 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
13729 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
13730 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
13733 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
13734 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
13735 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
13736 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
13738 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
13739 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
13740 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
13744 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
13745 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
13746 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
13747 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
13748 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
13749 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
13750 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
13751 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
13752 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
13753 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
13754 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
13755 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
13756 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
13759 o Major features (relay):
13760 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
13761 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
13762 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
13763 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
13764 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
13765 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
13766 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
13768 o Major features (portability):
13769 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
13770 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
13771 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
13772 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
13773 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13776 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
13777 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
13778 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
13779 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
13780 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
13781 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
13783 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
13784 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
13785 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
13786 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
13787 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
13788 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
13789 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
13790 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
13792 o Minor features (path selection):
13793 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
13794 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
13795 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
13796 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
13797 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
13798 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
13799 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
13800 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
13801 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
13802 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
13803 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
13804 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
13805 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
13806 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
13807 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
13808 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
13809 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
13810 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
13811 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
13813 o Minor features (log messages):
13814 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
13815 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
13816 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
13817 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
13820 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
13821 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
13822 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
13823 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
13824 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
13825 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
13826 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
13827 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
13828 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
13829 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13830 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
13831 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13833 o Build improvements:
13834 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
13835 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
13836 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
13837 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
13838 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
13839 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
13840 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
13841 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
13842 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
13843 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
13844 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
13845 than to perform erroneously.
13847 o Removed features:
13848 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
13849 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
13850 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
13852 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
13853 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
13854 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
13857 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13858 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
13860 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
13861 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
13865 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
13866 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
13867 work more robustly.
13870 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
13871 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
13872 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
13876 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
13877 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
13878 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
13879 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
13882 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
13883 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
13884 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
13885 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
13886 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
13887 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
13888 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
13889 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
13890 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
13891 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
13892 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
13893 closes ticket 7199.
13895 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
13896 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
13897 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
13898 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
13899 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
13900 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
13901 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
13902 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
13903 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
13904 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
13905 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
13907 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
13908 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
13909 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
13911 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
13912 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
13913 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
13915 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
13917 o Major features (better link encryption):
13918 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
13919 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
13920 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
13921 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
13922 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
13923 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
13926 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
13927 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
13928 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
13929 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
13930 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
13931 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
13932 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
13934 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
13935 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
13936 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
13937 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
13939 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
13942 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
13943 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
13944 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13947 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
13948 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
13949 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
13950 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
13951 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
13952 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
13953 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
13954 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
13955 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
13957 o Minor features (testing):
13958 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
13959 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
13960 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
13962 o Minor features (path bias detection):
13963 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
13964 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
13965 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
13966 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
13967 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
13968 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
13969 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
13970 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
13971 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
13972 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
13973 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
13974 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
13975 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
13976 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
13977 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
13978 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
13979 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
13980 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
13981 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
13982 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
13983 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
13984 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
13985 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
13986 detection capability loss.
13988 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
13989 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
13990 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
13991 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
13992 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13993 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
13994 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
13995 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
13998 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13999 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
14000 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
14001 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
14002 and the different handshakes it supports.
14003 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
14004 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
14005 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
14006 any encoding is overkill.
14009 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
14010 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
14011 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
14012 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
14013 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
14014 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
14015 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
14016 and fixes a variety of other issues.
14018 o Major features (client resilience):
14019 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
14020 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
14021 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
14022 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
14023 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
14024 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
14025 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
14026 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
14027 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
14028 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
14029 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
14030 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
14031 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
14032 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
14033 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
14035 o Major features (IPv6):
14036 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
14037 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
14038 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
14039 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
14040 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
14041 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
14042 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
14043 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
14045 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
14046 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
14048 o Major features (geoip database):
14049 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
14050 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
14051 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
14052 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
14053 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
14054 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
14055 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
14056 Country database, as modified above.
14058 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
14059 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
14060 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
14061 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
14062 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
14063 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
14064 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
14065 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
14066 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
14067 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
14068 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
14069 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
14070 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
14071 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
14072 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
14073 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
14074 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
14077 o Major bugfixes (other):
14078 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
14079 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
14080 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
14081 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
14082 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
14083 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
14084 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
14085 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
14087 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
14088 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14091 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
14092 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
14093 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
14094 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
14095 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
14096 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
14097 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
14098 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
14100 o Minor features (IPv6):
14101 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
14102 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
14103 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
14104 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
14105 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
14106 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
14107 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
14108 connect to the wrong addresses.
14109 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
14110 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
14111 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
14112 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
14116 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
14117 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
14118 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
14119 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
14120 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
14121 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
14122 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
14124 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
14125 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
14126 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
14129 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
14130 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
14132 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14133 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
14134 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
14135 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
14136 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
14139 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
14140 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
14141 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
14142 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
14143 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
14144 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
14145 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
14146 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
14148 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
14149 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
14150 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
14151 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
14152 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
14153 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
14154 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
14155 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
14156 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
14157 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
14158 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
14161 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
14162 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
14163 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
14164 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
14165 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
14166 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
14167 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
14168 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
14169 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
14170 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
14173 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
14174 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
14178 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
14179 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
14180 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
14181 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
14184 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
14185 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
14187 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
14188 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
14189 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
14190 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
14191 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
14192 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
14193 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
14194 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
14195 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
14196 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
14199 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
14201 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
14202 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
14203 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
14204 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
14205 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
14208 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
14209 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
14210 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
14211 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
14212 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
14214 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
14215 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
14216 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
14217 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
14218 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
14219 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
14220 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
14222 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
14223 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14224 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
14225 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
14226 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
14227 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14228 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
14229 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14231 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14232 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
14233 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
14234 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
14235 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
14236 present the same extensions.)
14239 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
14240 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
14241 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
14242 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
14243 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
14245 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
14246 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
14247 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
14248 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
14250 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
14251 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
14252 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
14253 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14255 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
14256 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
14257 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
14258 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
14259 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
14260 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
14261 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
14262 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
14263 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14265 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
14266 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
14267 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
14268 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
14269 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14272 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
14273 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
14274 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
14276 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14277 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
14279 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
14280 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
14284 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
14285 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
14286 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
14287 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
14290 o Major bugfixes (security):
14291 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
14292 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
14293 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
14295 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
14296 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
14297 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
14298 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14301 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
14302 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
14303 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
14304 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
14305 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
14306 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
14307 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
14308 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14311 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
14312 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
14313 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
14314 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14317 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
14318 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
14319 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
14320 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
14321 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
14322 scheduling algorithms.
14324 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
14325 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
14326 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
14328 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
14329 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
14330 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
14331 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
14332 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
14333 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
14334 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
14335 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
14336 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
14337 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
14338 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
14340 o Internal abstraction features:
14341 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
14342 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
14343 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
14344 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
14345 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
14346 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
14347 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
14348 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
14349 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
14350 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
14351 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
14352 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
14353 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
14354 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
14355 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
14356 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
14357 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
14359 o Required libraries:
14360 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
14361 strongly recommended.
14364 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
14365 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
14366 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
14367 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
14368 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
14369 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
14370 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
14371 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
14372 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
14374 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
14375 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
14376 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
14377 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
14378 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
14379 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
14380 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
14381 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
14382 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
14383 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
14384 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
14385 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
14386 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
14387 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
14388 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
14391 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
14392 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
14393 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
14394 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
14395 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
14396 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
14397 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
14398 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
14399 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
14400 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
14401 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
14402 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
14403 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
14404 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
14405 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
14406 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
14407 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
14408 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
14409 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
14411 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
14412 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
14413 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
14414 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
14415 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
14416 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
14417 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
14420 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
14421 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
14422 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
14423 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
14425 o New directory authorities:
14426 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
14427 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
14429 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
14430 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
14431 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
14432 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
14433 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
14434 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
14435 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
14436 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
14437 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
14438 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
14439 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
14442 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
14443 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
14444 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
14446 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
14447 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
14448 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
14449 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
14450 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
14451 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
14452 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
14453 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
14454 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
14456 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
14457 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
14458 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
14459 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
14460 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
14461 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
14462 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
14463 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
14464 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
14465 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
14466 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
14467 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
14468 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
14469 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
14470 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
14471 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
14472 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
14473 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
14475 o Documentation fixes:
14476 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
14479 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
14480 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
14481 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
14482 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
14485 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
14486 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
14487 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
14490 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
14491 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
14492 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
14493 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
14494 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
14495 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
14496 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
14497 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
14499 o Security features:
14500 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
14501 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
14502 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
14503 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
14504 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
14505 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
14506 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
14507 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
14508 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
14512 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
14513 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
14514 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
14517 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
14518 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
14519 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
14520 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
14521 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14522 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
14523 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
14524 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
14525 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
14526 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
14527 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
14528 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
14529 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
14530 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
14532 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
14533 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
14534 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
14535 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
14536 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
14538 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
14539 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
14540 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
14541 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14542 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
14543 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
14544 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14545 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
14546 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
14547 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
14548 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
14549 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
14550 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
14551 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
14552 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
14553 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
14554 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
14555 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
14556 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
14557 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
14559 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14560 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
14561 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
14562 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
14563 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
14564 testable, and a little less fragile too.
14565 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
14566 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
14568 o Documentation fixes:
14569 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
14570 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
14574 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
14575 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
14579 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
14580 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
14581 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
14584 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
14585 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
14589 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
14590 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
14594 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
14595 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
14596 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
14597 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
14598 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
14599 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
14600 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
14604 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
14605 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
14606 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
14607 log messages less noisy.
14610 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
14611 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
14615 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
14616 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
14617 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
14618 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
14619 last time we raised it).
14622 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
14623 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
14625 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
14626 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
14627 part of ticket 6736.
14628 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
14629 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
14630 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
14634 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
14635 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
14636 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
14637 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
14638 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
14640 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
14641 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14642 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
14643 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
14644 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
14645 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
14646 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
14647 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
14648 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
14649 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
14650 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
14651 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
14653 o Removed features:
14654 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
14655 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
14656 bunch of compatibility code.
14658 o Code refactoring:
14659 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
14660 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
14661 the ORPort and the DirPort.
14664 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
14665 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
14666 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
14667 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
14669 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
14670 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
14671 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
14673 o Major features (bridges):
14674 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
14675 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
14676 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
14679 o Major features (IPv6):
14680 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
14681 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
14682 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
14683 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
14684 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
14685 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
14686 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
14687 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
14688 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
14690 o Major features (build):
14691 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
14692 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
14693 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
14694 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
14695 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
14696 fixes by Jim Meyering.
14697 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
14698 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
14699 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
14701 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
14702 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
14703 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
14704 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
14705 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
14706 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
14707 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
14708 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
14709 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
14710 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
14711 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
14713 o Minor features (streamlining);
14714 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
14715 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
14717 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
14718 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
14719 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
14720 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
14721 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
14722 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14724 o Minor features (controller):
14725 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
14727 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
14728 Implements ticket 4971.
14730 o Minor features (IPv6):
14731 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
14732 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
14733 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
14734 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
14735 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
14737 o Minor features (log messages):
14738 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
14739 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
14740 Resolves ticket 6758.
14741 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
14742 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
14743 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
14744 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14745 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
14746 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
14747 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
14749 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
14750 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
14751 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
14752 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
14753 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
14756 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
14757 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
14758 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
14759 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
14760 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
14762 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
14763 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
14764 Implements ticket 5529.
14765 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
14766 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
14767 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
14768 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
14769 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
14770 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
14771 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
14772 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
14773 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
14774 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
14776 o New requirements:
14777 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
14778 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
14779 from a source distribution.)
14782 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
14783 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
14784 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
14785 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
14786 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
14787 and cleans up other smaller issues.
14789 o Major bugfixes (security):
14790 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
14791 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
14792 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
14793 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
14794 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
14795 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
14796 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
14797 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
14798 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
14799 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
14800 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
14801 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14802 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
14803 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
14804 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
14805 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
14809 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
14810 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
14811 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
14812 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14813 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
14814 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
14815 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
14816 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
14817 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
14818 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
14821 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
14822 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
14823 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
14824 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
14825 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
14826 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
14827 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
14828 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
14829 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
14830 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
14831 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
14833 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
14834 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
14835 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
14837 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
14838 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
14839 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
14840 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
14841 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
14842 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
14843 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
14844 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
14845 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
14846 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
14847 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
14848 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
14849 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
14850 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
14853 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
14854 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
14855 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
14856 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
14857 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
14858 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
14859 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
14860 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
14861 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
14862 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
14863 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
14864 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
14865 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
14866 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
14867 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
14870 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
14871 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
14872 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
14873 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
14874 Resolves ticket 6732.
14877 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
14878 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
14879 attack that could in theory leak path information.
14882 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
14883 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
14884 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14885 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
14886 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
14887 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
14888 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
14889 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
14890 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
14891 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
14892 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
14893 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
14894 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
14895 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
14898 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
14899 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
14900 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
14901 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
14904 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
14905 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
14906 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14907 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
14908 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
14909 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14910 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
14911 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
14912 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
14913 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
14914 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
14915 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
14916 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
14917 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
14918 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
14919 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
14920 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
14923 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
14924 a little more useful.
14925 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
14926 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
14927 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
14928 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
14929 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
14930 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
14931 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
14934 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
14935 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14936 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
14937 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
14938 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
14939 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
14943 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
14944 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
14945 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
14946 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
14947 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
14950 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
14951 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
14952 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
14955 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
14957 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
14959 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14960 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
14961 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
14962 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
14963 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
14966 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
14967 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
14968 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
14969 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
14970 since the beginning of Tor.
14973 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
14974 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
14975 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
14976 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
14977 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
14978 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
14979 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
14980 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
14981 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
14982 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
14985 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
14986 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
14989 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
14990 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
14991 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
14992 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
14995 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
14996 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
14997 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
14998 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
14999 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
15000 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
15002 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
15003 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
15004 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
15005 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
15006 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
15007 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
15008 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15009 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
15010 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
15011 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
15012 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
15013 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
15014 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
15015 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
15016 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
15017 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
15018 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15019 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
15020 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
15022 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
15023 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
15024 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
15026 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
15027 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15028 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
15029 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
15031 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
15032 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
15033 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
15034 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
15035 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
15036 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
15037 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15038 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
15039 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
15040 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
15041 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
15042 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
15043 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
15044 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
15045 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
15046 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
15049 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
15050 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
15051 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
15052 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
15053 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
15056 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
15057 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
15058 options. Closes bug 4748.
15061 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
15062 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
15063 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
15064 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
15065 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
15069 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
15070 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
15072 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
15073 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
15074 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
15075 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
15076 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
15077 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
15078 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
15079 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
15080 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
15083 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
15084 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
15085 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
15086 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
15087 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
15088 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
15089 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
15090 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
15093 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
15094 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
15095 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
15096 case for flushing marked connections.
15097 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
15098 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
15099 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
15100 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
15101 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
15102 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
15103 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
15104 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
15105 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
15106 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
15107 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
15108 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
15109 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
15110 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
15111 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
15112 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
15113 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
15114 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
15115 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
15116 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
15117 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
15118 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
15119 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
15120 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
15121 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
15123 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
15124 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15125 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
15129 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
15130 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
15131 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
15132 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
15133 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
15134 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
15135 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
15136 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
15137 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
15138 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
15139 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
15140 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
15141 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
15142 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
15143 Addresses ticket 5458.
15144 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15146 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
15147 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
15148 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
15151 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
15152 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
15153 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
15157 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
15158 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
15159 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
15160 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
15161 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
15162 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
15163 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
15164 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
15165 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
15166 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
15167 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15170 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
15171 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
15174 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
15175 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
15178 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
15179 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
15180 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
15181 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
15182 that get us closer to a release candidate.
15184 o Major bugfixes (general):
15185 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
15186 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
15187 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
15188 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
15189 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
15190 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
15191 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
15192 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
15193 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
15195 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
15196 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
15197 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
15198 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
15201 o Major bugfixes (clients):
15202 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
15203 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
15204 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
15205 which introduced predicted ports.
15206 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
15207 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
15208 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
15209 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15210 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
15211 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
15212 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
15213 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
15214 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
15215 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
15216 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
15217 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
15218 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
15220 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
15221 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
15222 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
15223 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
15224 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
15225 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
15226 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
15227 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
15228 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
15229 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
15230 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
15234 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
15235 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
15236 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
15237 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
15238 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
15239 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
15240 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
15241 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
15242 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
15243 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
15244 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
15245 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
15246 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
15247 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
15249 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
15250 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
15251 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
15252 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
15253 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
15254 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
15255 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
15256 sure. Closes bug 5139.
15257 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
15258 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
15259 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
15260 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
15261 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
15262 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
15263 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15265 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
15266 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
15267 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
15268 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
15269 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
15270 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
15271 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
15272 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
15273 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
15274 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
15275 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
15276 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
15277 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
15278 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
15279 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
15280 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
15281 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
15282 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
15283 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
15284 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
15286 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
15287 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
15288 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
15289 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
15290 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
15291 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
15292 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
15293 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
15294 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
15295 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
15296 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
15297 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
15298 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
15300 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
15301 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15302 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
15303 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
15305 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
15306 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
15307 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
15308 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
15309 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
15310 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
15311 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
15312 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
15313 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
15314 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
15316 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
15317 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
15318 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
15320 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
15321 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
15322 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
15323 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
15324 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
15325 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
15326 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
15327 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
15328 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
15329 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
15330 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
15331 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
15332 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
15333 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
15334 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
15335 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
15336 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
15337 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
15338 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
15339 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
15341 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
15342 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
15343 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15344 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
15345 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
15346 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
15348 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
15349 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
15350 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
15352 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
15353 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
15354 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
15355 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
15356 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
15357 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
15359 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
15360 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
15361 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
15363 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
15364 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
15365 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15366 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
15367 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
15368 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15369 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
15370 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
15371 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
15372 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15373 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
15374 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
15375 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
15376 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
15377 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
15378 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
15380 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
15381 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
15382 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15383 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
15384 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
15385 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15386 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
15387 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15388 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
15389 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
15390 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
15391 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
15392 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
15395 o Documentation fixes:
15396 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
15397 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
15398 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
15399 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
15400 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
15401 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
15404 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
15405 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
15409 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
15410 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
15411 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
15412 and fixes several crash bugs.
15414 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
15415 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
15416 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
15417 those packages and upgrade anyway.
15419 o Directory authority changes:
15420 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
15421 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
15425 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
15426 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
15427 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
15428 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
15429 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
15430 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
15431 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
15432 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
15433 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
15434 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
15435 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
15436 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
15437 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
15438 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
15439 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
15440 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
15441 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
15442 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
15443 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
15444 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
15445 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
15446 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
15447 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
15448 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
15449 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
15450 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
15451 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
15454 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
15455 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
15456 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
15457 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
15459 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
15460 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
15462 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
15463 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
15464 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
15465 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
15466 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
15467 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
15468 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
15469 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
15472 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
15473 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
15474 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
15475 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
15476 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
15477 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
15478 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
15479 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
15480 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
15481 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
15482 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
15483 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
15484 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
15485 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
15486 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
15487 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
15488 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
15489 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
15490 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
15491 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
15492 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
15493 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
15494 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
15495 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
15496 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
15497 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
15498 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
15499 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
15500 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
15501 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
15502 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
15503 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
15504 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
15505 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
15506 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
15507 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
15508 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
15509 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
15510 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
15511 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
15512 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
15513 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
15514 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
15515 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
15516 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
15517 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
15519 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
15520 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
15521 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
15522 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
15523 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
15524 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
15525 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
15526 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
15527 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
15528 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
15529 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15530 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
15531 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
15532 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
15533 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
15536 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
15537 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
15538 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
15539 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
15541 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15544 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
15545 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
15546 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
15547 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
15548 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
15549 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
15550 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
15553 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
15554 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
15555 the development branch build on Windows again.
15557 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
15558 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
15559 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
15560 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
15561 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
15562 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
15563 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
15564 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
15565 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
15566 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
15567 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
15568 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
15569 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
15570 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
15571 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
15573 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
15574 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
15575 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
15576 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15577 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
15578 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
15579 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
15580 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
15581 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
15582 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
15583 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
15584 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
15587 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
15588 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
15589 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
15590 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
15591 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
15592 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
15593 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
15594 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
15595 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
15597 o Removed features:
15598 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
15599 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
15600 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
15601 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
15605 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
15606 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
15607 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
15608 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
15610 o Directory authority changes:
15611 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
15615 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
15616 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
15617 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
15618 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
15620 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
15621 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
15622 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
15623 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
15624 documents entirely.
15625 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
15626 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
15627 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15629 o Major features (performance):
15630 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
15631 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
15632 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
15633 much faster than other AES implementations.
15635 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
15636 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
15637 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
15638 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
15639 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
15640 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
15641 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
15642 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
15643 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
15644 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
15645 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
15646 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
15647 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
15648 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
15649 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
15650 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
15651 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
15652 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
15654 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
15655 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
15656 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
15657 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
15658 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
15659 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15660 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
15661 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
15662 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
15664 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
15665 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
15666 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
15667 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
15668 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
15669 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
15672 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
15673 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
15674 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
15675 please let us know about it.
15676 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
15677 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
15678 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
15679 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
15680 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15681 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15682 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
15683 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
15685 o Default torrc changes:
15686 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
15687 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
15689 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
15690 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
15691 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
15694 o Removed features:
15695 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
15696 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
15697 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
15698 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
15700 o Code refactoring:
15701 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
15702 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
15703 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
15704 it would be a bad idea to start.
15707 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
15708 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
15709 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
15710 that get us closer to a release candidate.
15712 o Directory authority changes:
15713 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
15716 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
15717 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
15718 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
15719 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
15720 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
15721 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
15722 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
15723 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
15724 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
15725 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
15726 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
15727 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
15728 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
15729 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
15730 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
15731 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
15733 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
15734 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
15735 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
15736 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
15737 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
15738 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
15739 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
15740 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
15741 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15742 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
15743 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
15744 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
15746 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
15747 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
15748 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15749 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
15750 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
15752 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
15753 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
15754 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
15755 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
15756 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
15757 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
15758 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
15759 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
15760 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
15761 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
15762 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
15763 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
15764 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
15765 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
15766 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
15767 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
15768 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
15769 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
15770 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
15771 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
15772 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
15773 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
15776 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
15777 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
15778 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15779 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
15780 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
15781 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
15782 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
15783 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
15784 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15785 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
15786 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
15787 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
15788 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
15789 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
15790 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
15791 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
15792 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
15795 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
15796 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
15797 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15800 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
15801 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
15802 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
15803 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
15806 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
15807 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
15809 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
15810 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
15811 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
15812 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
15813 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
15814 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
15815 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
15816 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15817 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
15818 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
15819 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
15820 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
15823 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
15824 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
15825 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
15826 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
15827 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
15828 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
15829 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15832 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
15833 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
15834 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
15835 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15836 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
15837 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
15838 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
15839 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
15840 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
15841 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
15843 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
15844 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
15845 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
15846 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
15847 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
15848 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
15849 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
15850 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
15851 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
15854 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
15855 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
15856 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
15860 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
15861 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
15862 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
15863 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
15864 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
15865 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
15868 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
15869 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
15870 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
15871 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
15872 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
15873 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
15874 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
15875 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
15877 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
15878 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
15879 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
15880 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
15881 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
15882 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
15883 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
15884 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
15886 o Major security workaround:
15887 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
15888 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
15889 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
15890 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
15891 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
15892 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
15893 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
15894 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
15895 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
15896 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
15897 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
15900 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
15901 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
15902 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
15903 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
15904 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
15905 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
15906 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
15907 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15908 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
15909 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
15910 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
15911 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
15912 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
15914 o Minor features (controller):
15915 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
15916 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
15917 file. Resolves bug 1101.
15918 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
15919 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
15920 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
15921 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
15922 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
15923 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
15925 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
15926 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
15927 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
15928 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
15929 part of ticket 3457.
15930 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
15931 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
15932 circuit-status' control-port command.
15934 o Minor features (directory authorities):
15935 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
15936 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
15937 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
15938 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
15940 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
15941 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
15942 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
15943 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
15944 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
15945 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
15946 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
15948 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
15949 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
15951 o Minor features (other):
15952 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
15953 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
15954 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
15955 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
15956 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
15957 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
15958 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
15959 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
15961 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
15962 them from the other auths.
15963 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
15964 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
15965 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
15966 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
15967 the 0.2.3.x series.
15968 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15970 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15971 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
15972 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
15973 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
15974 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
15975 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
15976 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
15977 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
15978 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
15979 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
15980 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
15981 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
15982 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
15983 be disabled using the new
15984 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
15985 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
15986 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
15987 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
15988 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
15989 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
15990 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
15991 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
15992 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
15993 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
15994 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
15995 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
15997 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
15998 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
15999 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
16002 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
16003 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
16004 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
16006 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
16007 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
16008 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
16009 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
16010 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
16011 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
16012 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
16014 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
16015 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
16016 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
16017 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
16018 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
16019 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
16020 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
16021 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
16023 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
16024 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
16025 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
16026 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
16027 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
16028 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
16029 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
16030 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
16031 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
16034 o Minor bugfixes (other):
16035 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
16036 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
16037 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
16038 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
16039 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
16040 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
16041 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
16042 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
16043 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
16044 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
16045 accidentally been reverted.
16046 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
16047 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
16048 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
16049 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
16050 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
16051 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
16052 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
16053 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
16054 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
16055 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16056 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
16057 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
16058 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
16059 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
16060 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16061 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
16062 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16063 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
16064 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16067 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
16068 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
16069 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
16070 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
16071 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
16072 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
16073 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
16075 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
16076 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
16077 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
16078 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
16079 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
16080 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
16081 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
16083 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
16084 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
16085 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
16086 invalid value, rather than just -1.
16087 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
16088 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
16089 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
16090 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
16091 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
16092 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
16093 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
16097 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
16098 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
16099 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
16101 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
16102 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
16103 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
16104 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
16105 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
16106 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
16107 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
16108 (which Tor does not do by default).
16110 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
16111 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
16112 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
16113 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
16114 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
16116 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
16120 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
16121 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
16122 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
16123 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
16126 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
16127 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
16128 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
16129 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
16130 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
16131 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
16132 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
16133 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
16134 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
16135 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
16136 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16139 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16142 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
16143 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
16144 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
16146 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
16147 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
16148 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
16149 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
16150 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
16151 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
16152 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
16153 (which Tor does not do by default).
16155 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
16156 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
16157 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
16158 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
16159 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
16161 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
16162 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
16163 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
16166 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
16167 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
16168 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
16169 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
16170 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
16172 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
16173 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
16176 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
16177 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
16178 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
16179 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
16180 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
16181 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
16182 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
16183 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
16185 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
16186 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
16187 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
16188 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
16189 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
16190 close based on processing a cell on it.
16191 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
16192 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
16193 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
16194 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16195 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
16196 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
16197 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
16198 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
16199 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
16200 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
16201 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
16202 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
16203 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
16204 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
16205 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
16208 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
16209 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
16210 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
16211 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
16212 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
16213 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
16214 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
16216 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
16217 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
16218 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
16219 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
16220 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
16221 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
16222 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
16223 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
16224 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16225 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
16226 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
16227 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
16228 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
16229 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
16230 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
16231 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
16232 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
16233 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
16234 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
16235 Reported by "troll_un".
16236 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
16237 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16238 Reported by "troll_un".
16239 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
16240 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
16241 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
16242 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
16245 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
16246 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
16247 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
16248 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
16249 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
16250 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
16251 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
16252 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
16253 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
16254 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
16255 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16257 o Packaging changes:
16258 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
16259 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
16262 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
16263 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
16264 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
16265 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
16266 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
16268 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
16269 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
16271 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
16272 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
16273 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
16274 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
16275 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16276 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
16277 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
16278 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
16279 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
16282 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16285 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
16286 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
16287 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
16288 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
16289 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
16290 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
16291 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
16294 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
16295 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
16296 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
16297 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
16298 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
16299 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
16300 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
16301 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
16302 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
16303 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
16304 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
16305 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
16306 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
16307 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
16308 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
16309 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
16310 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
16311 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
16312 Resolves ticket 4526.
16313 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
16314 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
16315 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
16316 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
16317 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
16318 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
16319 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
16320 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
16321 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
16322 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
16323 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
16324 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
16325 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
16326 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
16327 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
16328 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
16331 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
16332 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
16333 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
16334 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
16335 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
16336 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
16337 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
16338 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
16339 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
16340 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
16342 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
16343 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
16344 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
16345 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
16346 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
16347 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
16348 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
16349 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
16350 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
16352 o Minor features (new/different config options):
16353 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
16354 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
16355 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
16356 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
16357 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
16358 Implements issue 933.
16359 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
16360 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
16361 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
16362 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
16363 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
16364 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
16365 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
16366 appending to the list.
16367 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
16368 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
16369 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
16370 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
16372 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
16373 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
16374 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
16375 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
16376 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
16377 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
16378 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
16379 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
16382 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
16383 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
16384 Resolves ticket 2474.
16385 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
16386 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
16387 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
16388 Required by fix for bug 3460.
16389 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
16390 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
16391 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
16392 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
16393 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
16394 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
16395 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
16396 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
16397 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
16399 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
16400 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
16401 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
16403 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
16405 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
16406 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
16408 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
16409 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
16410 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
16411 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
16412 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
16413 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
16414 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
16416 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
16417 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
16418 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
16419 Reported by "troll_un".
16420 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
16421 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16422 Reported by "troll_un".
16423 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
16424 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
16425 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
16426 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
16428 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
16429 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
16431 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
16432 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
16433 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
16434 with help from wanoskarnet.
16435 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
16436 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16439 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
16440 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
16441 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
16442 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16444 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
16445 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
16446 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
16447 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
16448 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
16449 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
16450 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
16451 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
16454 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
16455 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
16456 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
16457 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
16458 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
16459 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
16460 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
16461 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
16462 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
16465 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
16466 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
16467 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
16468 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
16470 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
16471 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
16472 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
16473 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16474 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
16475 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
16476 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
16477 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
16478 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
16479 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
16480 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
16481 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
16482 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
16483 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
16484 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
16485 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
16486 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
16487 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
16488 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
16489 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
16490 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
16491 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
16492 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
16493 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
16496 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
16497 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
16498 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
16499 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
16500 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
16501 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16502 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
16503 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
16506 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
16507 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
16508 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
16509 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
16510 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
16511 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
16512 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
16513 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
16514 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
16515 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
16516 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
16517 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
16518 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
16519 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
16520 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
16522 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
16523 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
16524 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
16525 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
16526 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
16527 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
16528 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
16529 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16530 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
16531 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
16532 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
16533 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
16534 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
16535 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
16536 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
16537 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
16538 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
16540 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
16541 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
16542 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
16543 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
16544 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
16545 Found by frosty_un.
16546 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
16547 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
16548 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
16550 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
16551 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
16552 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
16554 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
16555 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
16557 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
16558 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
16561 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
16562 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
16563 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
16564 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
16565 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
16566 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
16567 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
16568 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
16569 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
16570 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
16571 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
16572 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
16573 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
16574 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
16576 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
16577 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
16578 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16580 o Packaging changes:
16581 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
16582 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
16584 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
16585 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
16586 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
16587 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
16588 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
16589 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
16590 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
16591 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
16592 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
16595 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
16597 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
16598 ./src/test/bench binary.
16599 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
16600 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
16603 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
16604 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
16605 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
16609 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
16610 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
16611 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
16612 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
16613 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
16614 close based on processing a cell on it.
16615 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
16616 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
16617 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
16618 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
16619 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
16620 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
16621 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
16622 cells were introduced.
16625 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
16626 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
16629 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
16630 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
16631 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
16632 users. Everybody should upgrade.
16634 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
16635 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
16638 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
16639 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
16640 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
16641 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
16642 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
16643 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
16645 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
16646 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
16647 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
16648 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
16649 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
16650 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
16651 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
16652 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
16653 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
16654 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
16655 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
16656 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
16657 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
16658 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
16659 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
16660 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
16661 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
16662 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
16665 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16666 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
16667 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
16668 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
16669 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
16670 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
16671 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
16672 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
16673 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
16674 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
16675 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
16676 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
16677 Partly fixes bug 3825.
16678 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
16679 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
16680 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
16681 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
16682 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
16683 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
16684 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
16686 o Major bugfixes (other):
16687 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
16688 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
16689 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
16690 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16691 Found by "frosty_un".
16692 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
16693 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
16694 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
16695 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
16696 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
16697 immensely in tracking this bug down.
16698 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
16699 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
16702 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
16703 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
16704 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
16705 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
16706 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
16707 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
16708 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
16709 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
16710 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
16711 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
16712 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
16713 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
16714 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
16715 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
16716 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
16717 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
16718 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
16719 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
16720 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
16721 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
16722 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
16724 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
16725 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
16726 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
16727 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16728 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
16729 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
16730 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
16731 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
16732 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
16733 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
16734 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
16737 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
16738 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
16739 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
16740 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
16741 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
16742 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
16743 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
16744 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
16745 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
16746 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
16747 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
16748 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
16749 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
16750 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16752 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
16753 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
16754 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
16755 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
16756 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
16757 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
16758 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
16759 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
16762 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
16763 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
16764 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
16766 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
16767 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
16768 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
16769 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
16770 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
16771 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
16772 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
16773 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
16774 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
16775 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
16776 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
16777 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
16778 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
16780 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
16781 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
16782 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
16783 currently connected to them.
16785 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
16786 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
16787 remain; see for example proposal 188.
16789 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
16790 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
16791 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
16792 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
16793 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
16794 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
16795 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
16796 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
16797 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
16798 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
16799 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
16800 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
16801 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
16802 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
16803 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
16804 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
16805 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
16806 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
16809 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
16810 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
16811 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
16812 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
16813 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
16814 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
16815 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
16816 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
16817 when bridges were introduced.
16818 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
16819 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
16820 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
16821 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16822 Found by "frosty_un".
16825 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
16826 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
16828 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
16829 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
16830 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
16831 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
16832 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
16833 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
16834 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
16837 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
16838 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
16839 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
16840 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
16841 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
16842 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
16843 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
16844 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
16845 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
16846 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
16847 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
16848 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
16849 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
16850 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
16851 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
16852 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
16853 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
16854 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
16856 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
16857 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
16858 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
16859 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
16860 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
16861 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
16862 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
16863 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
16864 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
16865 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
16866 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
16867 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
16870 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
16871 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
16872 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
16873 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16876 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
16877 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
16878 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
16879 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
16880 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
16882 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
16883 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
16884 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
16885 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
16886 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
16887 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
16888 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
16889 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
16890 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
16891 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
16893 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
16894 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
16895 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
16896 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
16897 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
16898 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
16899 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
16900 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
16901 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
16902 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
16903 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
16904 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
16905 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
16906 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
16907 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16908 Found by "frosty_un".
16909 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
16910 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
16911 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
16912 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
16913 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
16914 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
16915 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
16916 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
16917 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
16918 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
16919 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
16920 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
16921 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16922 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
16923 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
16924 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
16925 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
16926 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
16927 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
16929 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
16930 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
16931 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
16932 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
16933 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
16934 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
16935 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
16936 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
16938 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
16939 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
16940 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
16941 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
16942 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
16943 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
16944 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
16945 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
16946 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
16947 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
16948 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
16949 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
16951 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
16952 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16953 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
16954 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16955 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
16956 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16957 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
16958 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
16959 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
16961 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
16963 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
16964 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
16965 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
16966 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16967 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
16968 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
16969 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
16970 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
16972 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
16973 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
16974 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
16975 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
16976 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
16978 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
16979 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
16980 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
16981 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
16982 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16985 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
16986 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
16987 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
16988 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
16989 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
16992 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
16993 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
16994 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
16995 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
16996 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
16997 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
16998 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
16999 when bridges were introduced.
17002 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
17003 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
17004 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17006 o Major features (networking):
17007 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
17008 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
17009 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
17010 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
17011 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
17015 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
17016 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
17017 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
17019 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
17020 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
17021 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
17022 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
17023 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
17025 o Minor features (diagnostics):
17026 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
17027 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
17030 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
17031 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
17032 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
17033 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
17034 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
17035 listed in the network consensus and republish.
17037 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
17038 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
17039 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
17040 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
17042 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
17043 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
17044 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
17045 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
17046 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
17047 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
17048 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
17049 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
17050 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
17051 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
17052 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
17054 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
17055 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
17056 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
17057 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
17058 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
17059 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
17060 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
17061 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
17062 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
17063 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17065 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
17066 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
17067 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
17068 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
17069 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
17070 fixes part of bug 2442.
17071 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
17072 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
17073 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
17075 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
17076 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
17077 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
17078 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
17079 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17081 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
17082 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
17083 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
17084 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
17085 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
17088 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
17089 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
17090 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
17094 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
17095 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
17096 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
17097 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
17098 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
17099 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
17100 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
17103 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
17104 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
17105 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
17106 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
17107 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
17108 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
17109 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
17112 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
17113 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
17114 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
17115 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
17116 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
17117 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
17118 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
17119 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
17120 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17122 o Code refactoring:
17123 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
17124 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
17127 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
17128 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
17129 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
17130 reachable from Iran again.
17133 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
17134 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
17135 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
17137 o Minor features (security):
17138 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
17139 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
17140 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
17141 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
17142 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
17143 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
17144 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
17145 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
17146 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
17147 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
17150 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
17151 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
17152 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
17153 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
17154 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
17155 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
17156 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
17157 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
17158 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17160 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
17161 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
17162 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
17163 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
17164 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
17165 raised by bug 3898.
17166 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
17167 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
17168 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
17169 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
17170 fixes part of bug 2442.
17171 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
17172 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
17173 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
17175 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
17176 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
17177 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
17178 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
17179 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17182 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
17183 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
17184 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
17185 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
17186 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
17187 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
17190 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
17191 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
17192 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
17193 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
17194 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
17195 bufferevent-based networking backend.
17197 o Major features (stream isolation):
17198 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
17199 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
17200 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
17201 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
17202 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
17203 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
17204 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
17205 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
17206 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
17207 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
17208 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
17209 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
17210 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
17211 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
17213 o Major features (other):
17214 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
17215 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
17216 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
17217 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
17218 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
17219 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
17220 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
17221 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
17222 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
17223 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
17224 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
17225 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
17226 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
17228 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
17229 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
17231 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
17232 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
17233 Fixes part of bug 3752.
17234 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
17235 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
17236 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
17237 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
17238 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
17239 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
17240 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
17241 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
17242 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
17243 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
17244 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
17245 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
17246 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
17247 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
17248 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
17249 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
17250 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
17252 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
17253 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
17254 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
17255 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
17256 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
17257 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
17260 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
17261 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
17262 user. Implements ticket 1692.
17263 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
17264 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
17265 best copy data out of a buffer.
17266 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
17267 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
17268 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
17270 o Minor features (build compatibility):
17271 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
17272 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
17273 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
17275 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
17276 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17278 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
17279 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
17280 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17281 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
17282 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
17283 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
17284 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17286 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
17287 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
17288 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
17289 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
17290 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
17291 raised by bug 3898.
17292 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
17293 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
17294 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
17297 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
17298 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
17299 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
17300 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
17301 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
17302 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
17303 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
17304 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
17305 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
17306 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
17307 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
17308 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17309 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
17310 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
17311 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
17312 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
17313 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
17314 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
17315 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
17318 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
17319 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
17320 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
17324 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
17325 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
17326 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
17327 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
17328 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
17329 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
17332 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
17333 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
17334 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
17335 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
17336 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
17337 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
17338 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
17339 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
17340 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
17341 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
17343 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
17344 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
17345 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
17346 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
17347 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
17348 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
17349 many many other features and bugfixes.
17352 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
17353 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
17354 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
17357 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
17358 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
17359 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
17360 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
17361 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
17362 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
17363 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
17364 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
17367 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17370 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
17371 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
17372 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17373 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
17374 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
17375 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
17376 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
17377 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
17378 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
17379 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
17380 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
17381 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
17382 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
17383 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17384 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
17385 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
17386 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
17387 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
17391 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
17392 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
17393 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
17394 up a variety of recently introduced features.
17397 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
17398 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
17399 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
17400 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
17401 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
17402 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
17403 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
17404 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
17405 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
17406 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
17407 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
17408 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
17409 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
17410 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
17411 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
17412 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
17414 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
17415 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
17416 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
17417 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
17418 order. Fixes bug 2798.
17419 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
17420 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
17421 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
17422 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
17423 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
17424 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
17428 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
17429 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
17430 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
17431 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
17433 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
17434 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
17435 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
17436 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
17437 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
17438 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
17439 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
17440 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
17441 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
17442 Implements ticket 3264.
17443 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
17444 implements ticket 3439.
17446 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
17447 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
17448 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
17449 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
17450 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
17451 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
17452 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
17453 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
17454 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
17455 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
17456 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
17457 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
17458 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
17459 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
17460 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
17461 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
17462 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
17463 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
17464 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
17465 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
17466 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
17467 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
17468 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
17469 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
17470 fails. Spotted by coverity.
17471 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
17472 present. Found by coverity.
17473 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
17474 a directory cache that provides them.
17476 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
17477 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
17478 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
17479 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
17480 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
17481 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
17483 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
17484 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
17485 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
17486 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
17487 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
17488 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17489 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
17490 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
17492 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17493 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
17494 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
17495 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
17496 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
17497 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
17498 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
17500 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
17504 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
17505 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
17506 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
17509 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
17510 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
17511 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
17512 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
17515 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
17516 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
17517 discovered by katmagic.
17518 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
17519 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
17520 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
17521 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17522 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
17523 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
17524 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
17525 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
17526 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
17527 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
17528 fixes part of bug 3465.
17529 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
17530 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
17534 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17537 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
17538 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
17539 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
17540 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
17541 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
17544 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
17545 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
17546 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
17547 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
17548 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
17551 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
17552 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
17553 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
17554 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
17555 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
17556 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
17559 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
17560 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
17561 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
17562 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
17563 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
17564 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
17565 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
17566 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
17567 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
17568 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
17569 fixes part of bug 3407.
17570 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
17571 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
17572 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
17573 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
17574 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
17575 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
17576 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
17577 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
17578 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
17579 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
17581 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
17582 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
17583 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
17584 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
17587 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17589 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
17590 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
17591 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
17593 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
17595 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
17598 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
17599 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
17600 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
17601 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
17602 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
17603 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
17607 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
17608 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
17609 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
17610 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
17611 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
17612 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
17613 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
17615 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
17616 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
17617 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
17618 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
17619 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
17620 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
17621 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
17622 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
17623 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
17624 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
17625 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
17626 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
17627 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
17628 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
17629 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
17630 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
17631 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
17632 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
17633 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
17637 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
17638 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
17639 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
17640 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
17641 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
17642 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
17643 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
17644 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
17645 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
17649 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
17650 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
17651 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
17653 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
17655 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
17656 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
17657 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
17658 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
17659 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17660 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
17661 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
17662 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
17663 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
17665 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
17666 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
17667 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
17668 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
17669 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
17670 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
17672 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
17673 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
17675 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
17676 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
17677 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
17680 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
17681 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
17682 Resolves ticket 3252.
17683 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
17684 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
17685 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
17686 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
17687 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
17688 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
17691 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
17692 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
17695 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
17696 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
17697 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
17700 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
17701 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
17702 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
17703 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
17704 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
17707 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
17708 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
17709 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
17710 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
17711 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
17712 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
17713 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
17714 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
17715 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
17719 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
17720 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
17721 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
17722 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
17723 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
17725 o Security/privacy fixes:
17726 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
17727 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
17728 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
17729 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
17730 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
17731 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
17732 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
17733 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
17734 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
17735 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
17736 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
17737 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
17738 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
17739 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
17740 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17743 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
17744 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
17745 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
17746 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
17747 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
17748 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
17749 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
17750 part of ticket 3076.
17751 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
17752 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
17753 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
17757 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
17758 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
17759 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
17760 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
17761 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
17762 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
17763 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
17764 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
17766 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
17767 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
17768 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
17769 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
17770 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
17771 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
17772 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
17773 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
17774 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
17775 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
17776 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
17777 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
17778 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17781 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
17782 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
17783 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
17784 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
17785 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
17786 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
17787 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
17789 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
17790 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
17791 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
17792 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
17793 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
17794 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
17795 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
17796 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
17797 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
17798 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
17799 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
17800 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
17801 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
17802 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
17803 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
17804 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
17806 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
17807 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
17809 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
17810 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
17812 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
17813 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
17815 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
17816 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
17817 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17819 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
17820 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
17821 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
17822 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
17823 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17824 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
17825 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
17826 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
17827 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
17828 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
17829 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
17831 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
17832 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
17833 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
17834 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
17835 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
17836 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
17837 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
17838 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
17839 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
17840 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
17841 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17842 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
17843 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
17846 o Removed features:
17847 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
17848 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
17849 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
17853 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
17854 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
17855 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
17856 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
17857 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
17858 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
17860 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
17861 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
17862 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
17865 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
17866 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
17867 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
17868 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
17869 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
17870 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
17871 zero-copy transports where available.
17872 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
17873 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
17874 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
17875 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
17876 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
17877 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
17878 debug it as it breaks.
17879 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
17880 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
17881 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
17882 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
17883 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
17884 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
17885 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
17886 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
17887 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
17888 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
17889 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
17890 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
17891 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
17892 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
17893 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
17894 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
17895 PortForwarding option.
17896 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
17897 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
17898 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
17899 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
17900 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
17901 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
17902 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
17905 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
17906 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
17907 Implements enhancement 1668.
17908 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
17910 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
17911 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
17912 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
17913 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
17914 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
17915 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
17916 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
17918 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
17919 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
17920 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
17921 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
17922 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
17923 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
17924 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
17926 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
17927 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
17928 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
17929 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
17930 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
17931 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
17932 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
17934 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
17935 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
17936 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
17937 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
17938 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17939 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
17940 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
17941 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
17942 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
17943 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
17944 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
17945 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
17946 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
17947 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
17948 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
17951 o Minor features (controller):
17952 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
17953 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
17954 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
17955 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
17956 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
17957 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
17958 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
17961 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
17962 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
17963 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
17964 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
17965 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
17966 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
17967 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
17968 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
17970 o Minor packaging issues:
17971 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
17972 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
17974 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
17975 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
17976 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
17977 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
17978 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
17979 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
17980 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
17981 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
17982 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
17983 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
17984 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
17985 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
17986 our library structure used to force them to link it.
17988 o Removed features:
17989 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
17990 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
17991 are no longer in use as servers.
17993 o Documentation fixes:
17994 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
17995 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
17996 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
18000 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
18001 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
18002 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
18003 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
18004 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
18005 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
18006 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
18007 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
18008 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
18009 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
18012 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
18013 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
18014 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
18015 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
18016 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
18017 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
18018 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
18019 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
18020 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
18021 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18022 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
18023 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
18024 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18025 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
18026 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
18027 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
18029 o Security and stability fixes:
18030 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
18031 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
18032 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
18033 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
18034 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
18035 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
18036 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
18037 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
18038 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
18039 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
18040 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
18041 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
18042 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18043 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
18044 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
18045 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18048 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
18049 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
18050 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
18051 contributions to the network.
18053 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
18054 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
18055 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
18056 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
18057 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
18058 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
18059 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
18060 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
18061 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
18062 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
18063 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
18064 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
18065 connections to directory servers.
18066 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
18067 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
18068 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
18069 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
18070 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
18071 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
18072 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
18073 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
18074 information, or fetch directory information.
18075 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
18076 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
18077 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
18078 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
18079 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
18080 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
18081 unless you really want your Tor to break.
18082 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
18083 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
18084 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
18085 - When StrictNodes is 1:
18086 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
18087 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
18088 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
18089 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
18090 reachability self-tests.
18091 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
18092 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
18093 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
18094 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
18095 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
18096 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
18097 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
18099 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
18100 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18101 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
18102 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
18103 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
18104 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
18105 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
18106 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
18107 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
18108 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
18109 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
18112 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
18113 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
18114 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
18115 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
18116 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
18117 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
18118 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
18119 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
18120 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
18121 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
18122 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
18123 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18124 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
18125 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
18126 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
18127 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
18128 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
18130 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
18131 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
18132 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
18133 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
18134 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
18135 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
18136 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18137 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
18138 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
18139 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
18140 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
18141 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
18142 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
18143 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
18144 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
18145 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
18146 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
18147 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
18148 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
18149 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
18152 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
18153 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
18154 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
18155 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
18156 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
18157 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
18158 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
18159 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
18160 Required by fix for bug 3000.
18161 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
18162 by fix for bug 3000.
18163 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
18164 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
18166 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18167 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
18168 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
18169 send a body too). Since only server versions before
18170 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
18171 keep the workaround in place.
18172 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
18173 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
18174 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
18175 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
18176 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
18177 want to do it differently.
18178 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
18179 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
18180 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
18181 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
18182 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
18186 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
18187 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
18188 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
18189 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
18190 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
18193 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
18194 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
18195 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
18196 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
18197 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
18199 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
18200 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
18201 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
18202 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
18203 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
18204 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
18205 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
18206 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
18207 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
18208 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
18209 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
18210 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
18213 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
18214 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
18215 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
18216 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
18217 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
18218 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
18219 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
18221 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
18222 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
18223 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
18224 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
18225 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
18226 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
18227 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
18228 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
18229 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
18230 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
18231 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
18232 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
18233 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
18234 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
18235 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
18236 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
18237 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
18238 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
18239 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
18240 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
18241 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
18242 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
18243 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18246 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
18247 networkstatus vote.
18248 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
18249 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
18250 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
18252 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
18253 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
18254 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
18255 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
18257 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
18258 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
18259 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
18260 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18263 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
18264 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
18266 o Documentation changes:
18267 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
18268 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
18270 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
18273 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
18274 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
18275 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
18276 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
18277 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
18278 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
18281 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
18282 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
18283 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
18284 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
18285 the rest of bug 1074.
18286 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
18287 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
18288 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
18289 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
18290 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
18291 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
18292 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18293 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
18294 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
18295 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
18296 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
18297 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
18298 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
18299 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18302 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
18303 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
18304 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
18305 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
18306 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
18307 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
18308 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
18309 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
18310 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
18311 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
18312 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
18313 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
18314 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
18315 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
18317 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
18318 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
18319 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
18320 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
18321 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
18322 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
18324 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
18325 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
18326 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
18327 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
18328 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
18329 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
18330 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
18331 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
18332 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
18333 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
18334 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
18335 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
18336 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
18337 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
18338 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
18339 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
18340 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
18341 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
18342 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
18343 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
18344 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
18345 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
18346 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
18347 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
18348 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
18349 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
18351 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
18352 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
18353 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
18354 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
18355 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
18356 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
18358 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
18359 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
18360 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
18362 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
18363 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
18364 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
18365 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
18366 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
18367 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
18368 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
18369 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
18370 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
18371 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
18372 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
18373 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
18374 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
18378 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
18379 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
18380 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
18381 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
18382 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
18383 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
18384 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
18385 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
18386 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
18387 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
18388 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
18389 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
18391 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18393 o Minor features (log subsystem):
18394 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
18395 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
18396 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
18398 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
18399 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
18401 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
18402 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
18403 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
18406 o Packaging changes:
18407 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
18408 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
18409 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
18412 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
18413 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
18414 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
18415 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
18416 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
18417 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
18420 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
18421 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
18422 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
18423 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
18424 the rest of bug 1074.
18425 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
18426 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18427 Found by "piebeer".
18428 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
18429 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
18430 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
18431 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
18432 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
18433 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
18434 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18437 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
18439 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18442 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
18443 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
18444 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
18445 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
18446 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
18447 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
18448 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
18449 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
18450 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
18451 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
18452 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18454 o Packaging changes:
18455 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
18456 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
18457 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
18458 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
18459 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
18460 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
18463 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
18464 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
18465 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
18466 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
18467 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
18468 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
18471 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
18472 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18473 Found by "piebeer".
18474 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
18475 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
18476 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
18477 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
18480 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
18482 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
18483 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
18484 Implements ticket 2432.
18487 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
18488 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
18489 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
18492 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
18493 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
18494 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
18495 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
18496 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
18497 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
18499 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
18500 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
18501 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
18502 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
18504 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
18505 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
18506 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
18507 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
18508 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
18509 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
18510 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
18511 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
18513 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
18514 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
18515 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
18516 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
18517 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
18518 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
18519 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
18520 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
18521 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
18522 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
18523 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
18524 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
18525 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
18526 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
18529 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
18530 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
18531 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
18532 bug reported by doorss.
18533 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
18534 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
18535 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18536 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
18537 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
18539 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
18540 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
18541 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
18542 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
18543 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
18545 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
18546 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18547 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
18549 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
18550 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
18551 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
18552 Automake 1.7 or later.
18553 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
18554 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
18555 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
18556 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
18558 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
18559 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
18560 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
18563 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
18564 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
18565 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
18566 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
18568 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
18569 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
18570 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
18571 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
18572 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
18573 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
18574 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
18575 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
18576 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
18578 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
18579 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
18580 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
18583 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
18584 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
18585 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
18586 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
18587 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
18588 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
18589 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
18590 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
18591 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
18592 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
18593 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
18594 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
18595 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
18597 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
18598 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
18602 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
18603 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
18604 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
18605 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
18606 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
18608 o Major bugfixes (security):
18609 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
18610 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
18611 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
18613 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
18614 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
18615 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
18616 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
18617 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
18618 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
18619 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
18620 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
18622 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
18623 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
18624 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
18625 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
18626 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
18627 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
18628 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
18629 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
18630 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
18631 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
18632 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
18633 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
18634 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
18635 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
18638 o Minor bugfixes (other):
18639 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
18640 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
18641 bug reported by doorss.
18642 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
18643 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
18644 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18645 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
18646 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
18648 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
18649 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
18650 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
18651 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
18652 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
18653 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
18654 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
18655 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
18656 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
18659 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18660 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
18663 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
18664 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
18665 Automake 1.7 or later.
18668 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
18669 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
18670 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
18671 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
18672 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
18675 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
18676 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
18677 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
18678 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
18679 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
18680 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
18681 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
18682 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
18683 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
18684 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
18685 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
18687 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
18688 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
18689 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
18690 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
18692 o Directory authority changes:
18693 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
18696 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
18697 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
18698 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
18699 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
18700 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
18701 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
18702 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
18703 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
18704 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
18707 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18708 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
18709 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
18710 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
18711 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
18712 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
18713 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
18714 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
18715 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
18716 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
18720 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
18721 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
18722 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
18723 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
18727 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
18728 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
18729 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
18730 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
18732 o Directory authority changes:
18733 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
18736 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18739 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
18740 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
18741 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
18742 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
18743 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
18746 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
18747 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
18748 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
18749 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
18750 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18751 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
18752 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
18753 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
18754 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
18755 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
18756 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
18757 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
18758 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
18759 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
18760 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
18761 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
18762 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
18763 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
18764 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
18765 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
18766 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
18767 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
18768 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
18771 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
18772 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
18773 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
18774 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
18776 o New directory authorities:
18777 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
18781 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
18782 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
18783 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
18785 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
18786 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
18787 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
18788 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
18789 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
18790 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
18792 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
18793 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
18794 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
18797 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
18798 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
18799 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
18800 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
18801 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
18802 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
18803 Patch from mingw-san.
18806 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
18807 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
18808 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
18809 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
18810 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
18811 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
18814 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
18815 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
18816 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
18819 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
18820 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
18821 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
18822 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
18823 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18826 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
18827 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
18828 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
18829 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
18830 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
18831 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
18832 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
18833 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
18834 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
18837 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
18838 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
18839 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
18840 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
18841 to a stable release.
18844 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
18845 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
18846 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
18847 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
18848 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
18849 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
18850 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
18851 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
18852 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
18853 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
18854 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
18855 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
18856 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
18857 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
18858 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
18859 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
18860 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
18861 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
18862 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
18863 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
18864 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
18865 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
18866 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
18867 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
18868 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
18869 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
18870 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
18871 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
18872 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
18873 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
18874 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
18877 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
18878 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
18879 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
18880 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
18881 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
18882 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
18883 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
18884 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
18885 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
18886 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
18887 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
18888 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
18889 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
18890 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18891 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
18892 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
18893 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
18895 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
18896 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
18897 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
18898 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
18899 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
18901 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
18902 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
18903 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
18904 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
18907 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
18908 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
18909 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
18910 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
18911 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
18912 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
18913 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
18914 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18916 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
18917 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
18918 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
18919 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
18920 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
18921 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
18922 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
18923 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
18924 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
18925 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
18926 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
18927 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
18928 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
18929 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
18930 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
18933 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
18934 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
18935 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
18936 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
18937 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
18938 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
18939 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
18940 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
18941 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
18944 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
18945 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
18946 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
18947 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
18948 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
18950 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
18951 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
18952 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
18953 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
18954 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
18955 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
18956 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
18957 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
18958 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
18959 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
18960 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
18961 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
18962 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
18963 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
18965 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
18966 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
18968 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
18969 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
18970 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
18971 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
18972 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
18973 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
18974 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
18975 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
18976 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
18977 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
18978 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
18979 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
18980 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
18981 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
18982 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
18983 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
18984 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
18985 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
18987 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
18988 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
18989 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
18990 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
18991 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
18992 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
18993 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
18994 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
18995 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
18996 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
18997 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
18998 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
18999 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
19001 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
19002 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
19003 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
19004 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19007 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
19008 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
19009 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
19010 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
19011 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
19012 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
19013 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
19014 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
19015 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
19016 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
19017 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
19018 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
19019 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
19020 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
19021 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
19022 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
19023 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
19024 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
19025 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
19028 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
19029 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
19030 based on the time during which we were active and not in
19031 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
19032 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
19033 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
19034 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
19035 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
19037 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
19038 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
19039 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
19040 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
19041 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
19042 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
19043 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
19044 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
19045 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
19046 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
19049 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
19050 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
19051 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
19052 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
19054 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
19055 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
19056 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
19057 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
19058 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
19059 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
19060 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
19061 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
19062 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
19063 the longest-lived bug prize.
19064 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
19065 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
19066 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
19067 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
19068 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
19069 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
19071 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
19072 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
19073 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
19074 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
19075 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
19076 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
19080 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19081 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
19082 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
19083 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
19084 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
19085 got suppressed since the last warning.
19086 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
19087 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
19088 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
19089 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
19090 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
19091 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
19092 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
19093 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
19094 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
19095 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
19096 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
19097 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
19098 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
19099 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
19100 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
19101 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
19102 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
19103 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
19104 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
19106 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
19107 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
19108 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
19110 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
19111 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
19112 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
19113 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
19114 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
19115 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
19116 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
19117 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
19118 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
19119 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
19120 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
19121 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
19122 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
19123 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
19124 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
19126 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
19127 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
19128 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
19129 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
19130 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
19131 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19132 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
19134 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
19135 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
19136 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
19137 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
19138 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
19141 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
19142 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
19143 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
19144 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
19145 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
19146 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
19147 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
19148 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
19149 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
19150 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
19151 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
19152 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
19153 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
19154 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
19155 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
19156 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
19157 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
19158 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
19161 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
19164 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
19165 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
19166 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
19167 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
19168 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
19172 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
19173 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
19174 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
19175 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
19176 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
19177 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
19178 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
19179 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
19180 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
19181 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
19182 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
19183 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
19184 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
19185 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
19186 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
19187 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
19188 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
19191 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
19192 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
19193 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
19194 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
19195 they first get the Guard flag.
19196 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
19200 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19201 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
19202 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
19203 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
19204 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
19205 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
19206 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
19207 Patch from mingw-san.
19208 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
19209 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
19211 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
19212 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
19213 Implements enhancement 1790.
19215 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
19216 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
19217 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
19218 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
19219 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
19220 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
19221 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
19222 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
19223 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
19224 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
19225 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
19226 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
19227 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
19228 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
19229 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
19230 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
19231 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
19232 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
19233 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
19234 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
19236 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
19237 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
19238 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
19239 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
19240 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
19241 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
19242 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
19243 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
19244 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
19245 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
19246 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
19247 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
19248 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
19250 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
19251 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
19252 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
19253 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
19254 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
19255 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
19257 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
19258 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
19259 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
19260 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
19261 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
19262 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
19263 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
19264 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
19265 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
19266 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
19267 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
19268 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
19270 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
19271 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
19272 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
19273 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
19274 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
19275 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
19276 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
19278 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
19280 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
19281 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
19282 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
19283 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
19284 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
19285 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
19287 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19288 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
19289 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
19290 structures and defines in or.h for now.
19291 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
19292 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
19293 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
19294 statistics code to be more easily tested.
19295 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
19296 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
19297 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
19300 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
19301 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
19302 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
19303 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
19304 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
19305 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
19309 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
19310 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
19311 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
19312 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
19313 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
19314 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
19315 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
19316 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
19317 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
19318 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
19319 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
19320 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
19321 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
19323 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
19324 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
19325 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
19326 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
19327 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
19328 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
19329 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
19330 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
19331 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
19332 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
19333 can be controlled by the consensus.
19336 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
19337 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
19338 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
19339 more accurate data for many African countries.
19340 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
19341 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
19342 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
19343 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
19344 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
19345 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
19346 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
19347 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
19348 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
19349 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
19350 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
19351 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
19353 o New directory authorities:
19354 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
19358 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
19359 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
19360 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
19361 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
19362 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
19363 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
19364 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
19365 what should go in a patch.
19366 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
19367 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
19368 over our stored history.
19369 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
19370 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
19371 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
19372 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
19373 file. Fixes bug 1296.
19374 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
19375 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
19376 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
19380 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
19382 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
19383 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
19384 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
19385 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
19386 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
19387 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
19388 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
19389 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
19390 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
19391 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
19392 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
19393 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19394 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
19395 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
19396 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
19397 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
19398 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
19399 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
19400 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
19401 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
19402 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
19403 two-hop circuits are actually created.
19404 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
19405 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19406 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
19407 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19410 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
19411 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
19412 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
19413 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
19414 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
19416 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
19417 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
19420 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
19421 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
19422 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
19423 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
19424 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
19425 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
19426 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
19427 their directory fetches over TLS).
19428 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
19429 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
19430 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
19431 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
19432 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
19433 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
19434 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
19435 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
19438 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
19439 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
19443 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
19444 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19445 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
19446 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
19447 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
19448 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
19449 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19452 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
19453 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
19454 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
19455 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
19456 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
19459 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
19460 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
19461 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
19462 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
19463 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
19464 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
19465 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
19466 their directory fetches over TLS).
19469 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
19470 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
19472 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
19473 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
19474 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
19475 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
19476 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
19477 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
19478 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
19479 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
19480 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
19481 hour of their uptime.
19484 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
19485 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
19486 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
19490 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
19491 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
19492 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
19493 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
19494 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
19495 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
19497 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
19498 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
19499 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
19501 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
19502 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
19506 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
19507 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
19508 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
19512 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
19513 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
19514 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
19517 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
19518 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
19519 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
19520 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
19521 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
19522 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
19523 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
19524 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
19525 about the option without breaking older ones.
19526 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
19527 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
19528 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
19529 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
19532 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
19533 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
19534 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
19535 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
19537 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
19538 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
19539 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
19542 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
19543 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
19545 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
19546 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
19547 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
19548 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
19549 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
19550 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
19551 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19552 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
19553 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
19554 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
19555 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
19558 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
19559 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19560 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
19561 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
19562 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
19563 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
19564 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19567 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
19568 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
19569 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
19570 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
19571 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
19572 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
19575 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
19576 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
19577 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
19578 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
19580 o Major features (performance):
19581 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
19582 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
19583 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
19584 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
19585 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
19586 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
19587 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
19589 o Minor features (performance):
19590 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
19591 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
19592 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
19593 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
19594 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
19598 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
19599 speeds up the build considerably.
19601 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
19602 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
19603 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19604 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
19605 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
19606 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
19607 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
19608 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19610 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
19611 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
19612 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
19614 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
19615 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
19616 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
19617 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
19619 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19620 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
19621 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
19622 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
19623 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
19624 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
19627 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
19628 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
19629 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
19631 o Directory authority changes:
19632 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
19633 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
19634 service directory authority) from the list.
19637 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
19638 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
19639 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
19640 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
19641 libraries in a security patch.
19642 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
19643 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
19644 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
19645 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
19647 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
19648 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
19649 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
19650 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
19651 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
19652 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
19653 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
19656 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
19657 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
19658 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
19659 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
19660 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
19661 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
19662 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
19663 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
19664 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
19665 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
19666 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
19667 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
19668 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
19670 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
19671 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
19672 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
19673 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
19674 control-spec.txt said they were.
19675 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
19676 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
19677 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
19678 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
19679 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19681 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19682 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
19683 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
19684 produce nicer HTML.
19685 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
19686 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
19687 iPhone SDK versions.
19688 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
19689 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
19690 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
19691 projects directory in svn.
19692 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
19693 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
19694 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
19695 high latency links.
19698 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
19699 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
19700 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
19702 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
19703 to the circuit build timeout.
19704 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
19705 arguments we do not recognize.
19706 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
19707 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
19708 open() without checking it.
19711 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
19712 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
19713 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
19714 several minor potential security bugs.
19717 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
19718 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
19719 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
19720 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
19721 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
19722 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
19723 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
19726 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
19727 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
19729 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
19730 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
19731 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
19732 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
19736 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
19737 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
19741 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
19742 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
19743 customized patches to run/build.
19746 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
19747 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
19748 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
19751 o Major bugfixes (performance):
19752 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
19753 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
19754 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
19755 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
19756 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
19757 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
19758 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
19761 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
19762 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
19763 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
19764 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
19765 libraries in a security patch.
19766 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
19767 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
19768 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
19769 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
19772 o Directory authority changes:
19773 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
19774 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
19775 service directory authority) from the list.
19778 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
19779 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
19782 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
19783 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
19784 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
19785 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
19786 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
19789 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
19790 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
19791 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
19795 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
19796 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
19797 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
19798 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
19799 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
19802 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
19803 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
19804 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
19808 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
19809 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
19810 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
19811 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
19812 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
19814 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
19815 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
19817 o Directory authority changes:
19818 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
19821 o Major features (performance):
19822 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
19823 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
19824 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
19825 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
19826 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
19827 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
19828 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
19829 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
19830 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
19831 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
19832 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
19833 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
19834 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
19836 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
19837 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
19838 but never per-conn write limits.
19839 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
19840 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
19841 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
19842 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
19844 o Major features (relay selection options):
19845 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
19846 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
19847 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
19848 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
19849 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
19850 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
19851 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
19853 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
19854 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
19856 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
19857 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
19858 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
19859 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
19860 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
19861 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
19862 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
19863 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
19864 the network changes.
19867 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
19868 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
19869 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19872 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
19873 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
19874 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
19875 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
19876 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
19877 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
19878 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
19879 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
19880 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
19881 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
19882 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
19883 generated while acting as a relay.
19884 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
19885 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
19886 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
19887 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
19888 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
19889 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
19891 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
19892 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
19893 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19894 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
19895 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
19896 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
19899 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
19900 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
19901 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
19903 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
19904 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
19905 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
19907 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
19908 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
19910 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
19911 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
19912 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
19914 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
19915 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
19918 o Minor bugfixes (other):
19919 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
19920 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
19921 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
19922 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
19923 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
19924 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
19925 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
19926 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
19928 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
19931 o Removed features:
19932 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
19933 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
19934 hidden service usage.
19937 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
19938 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
19939 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
19940 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
19941 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
19943 o Directory authority changes:
19944 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
19948 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
19949 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
19950 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19953 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
19954 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
19955 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
19956 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
19957 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
19960 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
19961 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
19962 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
19963 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
19964 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
19965 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
19966 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
19969 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
19970 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
19971 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19972 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
19973 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
19974 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
19976 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
19977 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
19980 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
19981 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
19982 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
19983 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
19984 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
19985 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
19988 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
19989 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
19990 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
19992 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
19993 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
19994 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
19995 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
19996 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
19997 download consensus + microdescriptors".
19998 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
19999 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
20000 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
20001 hash algorithm in the future.
20002 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
20003 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
20004 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
20005 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
20006 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
20007 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
20008 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
20009 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
20010 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
20013 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
20014 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
20015 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
20016 won't work unless we say we are.
20019 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
20020 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
20021 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
20022 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
20023 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
20024 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
20025 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
20026 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
20027 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20028 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
20029 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
20030 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
20031 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
20032 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
20033 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
20034 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
20035 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
20036 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
20037 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
20038 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
20039 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
20040 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
20043 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
20044 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
20045 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
20046 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
20048 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
20049 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
20051 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
20052 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
20053 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
20054 in the Vidalia Settings window.
20057 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
20058 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
20059 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
20060 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
20061 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
20063 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
20064 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
20066 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
20067 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
20068 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
20071 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
20072 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
20073 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
20075 o New directory authorities:
20076 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
20078 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
20081 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
20082 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
20084 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
20085 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
20086 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
20087 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
20088 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
20089 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
20090 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20091 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
20092 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
20093 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
20094 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
20095 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
20096 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
20097 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
20098 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
20099 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
20100 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
20102 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
20103 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
20104 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
20106 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
20107 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
20111 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
20112 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
20113 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
20114 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
20115 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
20118 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
20119 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
20122 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
20124 o Directory authorities:
20125 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
20129 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
20130 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
20131 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
20132 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
20133 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
20136 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
20137 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
20138 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
20139 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
20141 o New directory authorities:
20142 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
20145 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
20146 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
20147 SSL handshake issues.
20148 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
20149 during the TLS handshake.
20150 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
20151 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
20152 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
20153 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
20154 none of which are very big.
20157 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
20159 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
20160 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
20161 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
20162 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
20163 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
20164 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
20165 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
20166 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
20169 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20170 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
20171 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
20172 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
20173 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
20176 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
20177 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
20180 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
20181 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
20184 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
20185 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
20186 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
20189 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
20190 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
20191 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
20192 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
20193 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
20194 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
20197 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
20198 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
20199 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
20200 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
20201 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
20202 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
20203 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
20204 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
20205 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
20206 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
20207 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
20208 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
20209 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
20210 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
20211 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
20212 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
20213 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
20214 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
20217 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
20218 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
20222 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
20223 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
20224 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
20225 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
20226 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
20227 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
20228 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20229 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
20230 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
20231 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
20232 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20233 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
20234 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
20235 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
20236 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
20237 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
20238 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
20239 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
20240 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
20241 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
20242 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
20244 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
20245 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
20246 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
20247 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20248 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
20249 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
20251 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
20252 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
20253 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
20256 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
20257 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
20258 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
20259 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
20260 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
20261 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
20264 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
20265 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
20266 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
20267 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
20268 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
20271 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
20272 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
20273 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
20276 o New directory authorities:
20277 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
20281 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
20282 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
20283 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
20284 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
20285 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
20288 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
20289 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
20290 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
20291 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
20292 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
20295 o New options for gathering stats safely:
20296 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
20297 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
20298 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
20299 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
20300 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
20301 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
20302 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
20303 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
20304 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
20306 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
20307 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
20308 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
20309 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
20311 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
20312 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
20313 their extra-info documents.
20316 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
20317 source files Tor was built with.
20318 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
20319 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
20320 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
20321 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
20322 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
20323 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
20325 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
20326 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
20327 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
20328 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
20329 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
20331 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
20332 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
20335 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
20336 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
20337 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
20338 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
20339 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
20341 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
20342 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
20344 o Deprecated and removed features:
20345 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
20346 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
20347 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
20348 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
20349 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
20350 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
20351 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
20352 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
20354 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
20355 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
20356 via application-level web tricks.
20358 o Packaging changes:
20359 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
20360 installer bundles. See
20361 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
20362 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
20363 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
20364 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
20365 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
20366 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
20367 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
20368 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
20369 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
20370 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
20371 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
20372 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
20375 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
20376 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
20377 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
20380 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
20381 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
20382 part of patch provided by "optimist".
20385 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
20386 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
20387 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
20388 and confuse fewer users.
20391 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
20392 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
20393 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
20394 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
20395 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
20396 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
20397 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
20400 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
20401 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
20402 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
20403 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
20404 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
20405 other features and bug fixes.
20408 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
20411 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
20412 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
20413 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
20414 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
20415 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
20418 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
20419 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
20420 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
20421 failure message (oops).
20424 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
20425 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
20426 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
20427 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
20431 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
20432 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
20433 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
20434 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
20435 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
20436 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
20437 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
20438 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
20439 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
20440 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
20441 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
20442 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
20443 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
20444 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
20445 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
20448 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
20449 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
20450 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
20451 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
20452 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
20453 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
20454 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
20455 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
20456 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
20457 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
20458 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
20459 Workaround for bug 1024.
20460 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
20464 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
20465 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
20466 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
20469 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
20471 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
20472 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
20473 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
20474 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
20475 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
20478 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
20479 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
20480 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
20481 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
20482 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
20483 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
20484 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
20485 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
20486 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
20487 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
20490 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
20491 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
20492 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
20493 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
20494 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
20495 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
20496 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
20497 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
20500 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
20501 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
20502 a bunch of minor bugs.
20505 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
20506 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
20507 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
20509 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
20510 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
20511 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
20512 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
20514 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
20518 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
20519 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
20520 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
20522 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
20523 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
20525 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
20526 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
20528 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
20529 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
20530 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
20531 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
20532 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
20533 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
20534 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
20535 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
20537 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
20538 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
20539 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
20541 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
20542 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
20543 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
20544 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
20545 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
20549 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
20550 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
20551 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
20552 of more minor bugs.
20554 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
20555 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
20556 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
20557 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
20559 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
20560 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
20561 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
20562 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
20563 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
20564 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
20565 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
20566 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
20567 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
20568 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
20569 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
20570 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20571 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
20572 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
20573 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
20574 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
20575 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
20577 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
20578 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
20579 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
20580 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20582 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
20583 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
20584 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
20587 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
20588 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
20589 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
20590 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
20591 addresses to fall out of the directory.
20594 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
20595 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
20596 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
20597 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
20599 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
20600 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
20601 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
20602 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
20603 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
20604 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
20605 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
20606 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
20607 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
20608 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
20609 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
20610 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
20611 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
20612 patch by Sebastian.
20613 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
20614 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
20617 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
20618 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
20619 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
20620 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
20621 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
20622 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
20624 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
20625 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
20626 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
20627 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
20628 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
20630 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
20633 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
20634 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
20636 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
20637 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
20638 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20639 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20640 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
20641 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
20643 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
20644 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20645 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
20646 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
20647 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
20648 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
20649 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
20650 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
20651 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
20652 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
20653 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
20654 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
20658 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
20659 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
20660 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
20663 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
20664 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
20665 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20667 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
20668 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
20669 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
20670 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
20671 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
20672 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
20673 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
20674 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
20675 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
20676 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
20677 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
20678 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
20679 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
20680 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
20681 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
20682 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
20683 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
20684 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
20685 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
20686 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
20687 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
20688 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
20689 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
20690 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
20691 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
20692 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
20694 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
20695 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
20696 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
20697 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
20698 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
20699 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
20700 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
20701 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
20702 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
20703 of 0. Suggested by lark.
20705 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
20706 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
20707 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
20708 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
20709 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
20712 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
20714 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
20715 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
20716 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
20717 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
20720 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
20721 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
20722 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
20723 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
20724 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
20726 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
20727 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
20728 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
20729 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
20732 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
20733 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
20734 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
20735 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
20736 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
20737 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
20738 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
20739 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
20742 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
20743 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
20744 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
20745 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
20748 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
20749 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
20750 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
20751 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
20752 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
20753 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
20756 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
20757 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
20758 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
20759 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
20760 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
20761 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
20764 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
20765 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
20766 reported by Matt Edman.
20767 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
20769 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
20770 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
20771 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
20772 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
20774 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
20775 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
20776 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
20777 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20778 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
20779 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
20780 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
20781 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
20782 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
20783 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
20784 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
20785 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
20786 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
20787 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
20788 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
20789 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
20790 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
20791 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
20792 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
20795 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
20796 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
20797 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
20798 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
20801 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
20802 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
20803 the letter of C99's alias rules.
20806 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
20807 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
20808 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
20809 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
20811 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
20812 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
20813 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
20816 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
20817 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
20820 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
20821 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
20822 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
20823 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
20824 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
20825 reported by "wood".
20826 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
20827 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
20828 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
20829 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
20830 identify a connection.
20831 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
20832 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
20833 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
20834 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
20835 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
20836 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
20837 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
20838 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
20839 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
20840 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
20842 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
20843 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
20844 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
20845 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
20846 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
20847 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
20848 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
20851 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
20852 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
20854 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
20855 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
20856 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
20857 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
20858 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
20859 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
20860 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20861 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
20863 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
20864 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
20865 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
20866 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
20867 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
20868 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
20869 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
20870 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
20871 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
20872 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
20873 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
20874 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
20875 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
20876 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
20877 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
20878 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
20879 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
20880 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
20881 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
20882 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
20883 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
20884 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
20885 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
20886 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
20887 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
20888 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
20889 840. Patch from rovv.
20890 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
20891 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
20892 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
20894 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
20895 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
20896 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
20897 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
20898 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
20899 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
20900 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
20902 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
20903 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
20904 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
20907 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
20908 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
20910 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
20911 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
20912 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
20913 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
20914 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
20915 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
20916 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
20917 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
20918 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
20920 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
20922 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
20923 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
20927 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
20928 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
20929 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
20930 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
20931 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
20932 have had some time to upgrade.)
20935 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
20936 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
20939 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
20940 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
20941 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
20942 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
20943 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
20946 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
20947 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
20949 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
20950 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
20951 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
20952 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
20953 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
20954 entirely. Patch from coderman.
20957 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
20958 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
20959 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
20960 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
20961 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
20962 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20963 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
20967 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
20968 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
20969 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
20970 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
20971 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
20972 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
20973 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
20976 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
20977 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
20978 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
20979 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
20980 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
20982 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
20983 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
20984 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
20985 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
20986 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
20987 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
20988 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
20989 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
20990 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
20991 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
20995 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
20996 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
20997 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
20999 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
21000 without support for deprecated functions.
21001 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
21003 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
21004 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
21005 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
21006 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
21007 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
21008 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
21009 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
21010 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
21011 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
21012 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
21013 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
21014 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
21015 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
21016 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
21017 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
21018 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
21019 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
21020 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
21021 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
21022 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
21023 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
21024 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
21025 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
21027 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
21028 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
21029 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
21030 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
21031 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
21032 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
21034 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
21035 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
21036 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
21037 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
21038 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
21040 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
21041 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
21042 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
21044 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
21045 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
21048 o Deprecated and removed features:
21049 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
21050 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
21051 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
21054 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21055 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
21056 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
21057 with log.h on Android.
21058 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
21059 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
21062 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
21063 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
21065 o New directory authorities:
21066 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
21070 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
21071 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
21072 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
21073 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
21074 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
21075 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21078 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
21079 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
21080 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
21081 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
21082 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
21083 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
21084 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
21085 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
21086 reported by "wood".
21087 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
21088 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
21089 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
21090 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
21093 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
21094 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
21096 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
21097 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
21098 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
21099 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
21100 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
21101 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
21102 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
21103 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
21104 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
21105 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
21106 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
21107 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
21108 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
21109 Implements proposal 148.
21110 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
21111 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
21112 system to do it for us.
21113 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
21114 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
21115 this fix will be slightly helpful.
21116 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
21117 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
21118 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
21119 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
21120 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
21121 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
21122 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
21123 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
21124 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
21127 o Minor features (controller):
21128 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
21129 been fetched and validated.
21130 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
21131 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
21132 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
21133 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
21134 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
21135 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
21138 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
21139 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
21140 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
21141 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
21142 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
21144 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
21145 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
21146 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
21147 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
21148 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
21149 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
21150 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
21151 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
21152 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
21154 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
21155 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
21156 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
21157 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
21158 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
21159 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
21160 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
21161 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
21163 o Deprecated and removed features:
21164 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
21166 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
21167 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
21168 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
21170 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21171 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
21172 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
21174 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
21175 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
21176 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
21177 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
21178 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
21179 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
21182 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
21183 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
21184 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
21185 fixes a variety of other issues.
21188 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
21189 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
21190 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
21191 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
21194 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
21195 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
21196 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
21197 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21200 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
21201 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
21202 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
21206 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
21208 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
21209 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
21210 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
21211 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
21212 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
21213 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
21214 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
21216 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
21217 rest, and don't automatically fail.
21218 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
21219 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21220 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
21221 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
21223 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
21224 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
21225 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
21226 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
21227 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
21228 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
21229 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
21230 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
21231 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
21232 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
21234 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
21238 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
21239 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
21240 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
21242 o Minor features (controller):
21243 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
21247 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
21248 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
21249 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
21250 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
21251 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
21252 variety of other issues.
21255 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
21256 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
21257 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
21258 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
21259 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
21260 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
21261 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
21262 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
21263 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
21264 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
21265 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
21266 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
21269 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
21270 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
21272 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21273 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
21274 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
21275 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
21276 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
21277 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
21278 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21279 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
21280 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
21281 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
21282 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
21283 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
21284 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
21285 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
21286 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
21290 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
21291 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
21292 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
21293 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
21294 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
21295 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
21296 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
21297 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
21298 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
21299 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
21300 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
21301 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
21302 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
21303 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
21304 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
21305 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
21306 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
21307 list. It has been gone for many months.
21308 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
21309 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
21310 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
21313 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21314 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
21315 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
21318 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
21319 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
21320 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
21321 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
21322 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
21323 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
21324 variety of other issues.
21327 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
21328 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
21329 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
21330 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
21331 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
21332 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
21333 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
21334 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
21335 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
21336 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
21337 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
21338 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
21339 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
21340 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
21343 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
21344 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
21345 Suggested by Lucky Green.
21346 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
21347 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
21348 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
21349 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
21350 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
21351 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
21353 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
21354 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
21356 o Hidden service performance improvements:
21357 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
21358 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
21359 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
21360 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
21361 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
21362 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
21363 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
21364 faster after restart.
21367 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
21368 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
21369 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
21370 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
21371 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
21372 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
21373 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
21374 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
21375 840. Patch from rovv.
21376 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
21377 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
21378 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
21379 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
21380 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
21381 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
21382 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
21383 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
21384 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
21386 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
21387 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
21388 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
21389 have already been marked for close.
21390 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
21391 introduction points.
21392 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
21393 memory performance during directory parsing.
21394 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
21395 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
21396 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
21397 because of a pending download.
21400 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
21401 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
21402 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
21403 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
21406 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
21407 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
21408 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
21409 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
21410 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
21411 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
21412 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
21413 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
21414 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
21415 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
21416 lookups more reliable.
21417 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
21418 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
21419 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
21420 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
21421 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
21422 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
21423 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
21426 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
21427 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
21428 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21429 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
21430 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
21431 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
21432 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
21433 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
21434 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
21435 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
21436 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
21438 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
21439 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
21440 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
21441 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
21442 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
21443 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21444 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
21445 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
21446 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21449 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
21450 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
21451 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
21452 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
21453 locked down these days.
21454 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
21455 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
21456 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
21457 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
21458 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
21460 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
21461 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
21462 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
21463 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
21464 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
21465 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
21466 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
21467 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
21468 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
21469 people find host:port too confusing.
21470 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
21471 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
21472 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
21475 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21477 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
21478 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
21479 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
21480 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
21481 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
21483 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
21484 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
21485 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
21486 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
21487 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
21488 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
21489 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
21490 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
21491 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
21492 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
21493 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
21494 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
21496 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
21497 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
21498 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
21499 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
21500 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
21501 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
21502 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
21503 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
21504 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
21506 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
21507 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
21508 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
21509 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
21510 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
21511 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21512 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
21513 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
21514 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
21515 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
21516 bug 820, reported by seeess.
21517 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
21518 list. It has been gone for many months.
21520 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21521 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
21522 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
21523 actual mistakes we're making here.
21524 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
21525 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
21526 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
21527 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
21530 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
21531 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
21532 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
21533 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
21536 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
21537 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
21538 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
21539 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
21540 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
21541 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
21543 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
21544 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
21545 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
21546 pointed out by rovv.
21549 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
21550 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21551 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
21552 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
21553 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
21554 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
21555 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
21556 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
21557 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
21558 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21559 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
21560 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
21561 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
21562 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
21563 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
21564 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
21565 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
21566 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
21567 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
21568 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
21569 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
21572 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
21573 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
21574 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
21575 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
21576 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
21577 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
21578 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
21581 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
21583 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
21584 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
21585 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
21586 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
21587 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
21588 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
21589 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
21591 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
21592 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
21593 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
21594 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
21595 known descriptor before building circuits.
21597 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
21598 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
21599 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
21600 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
21601 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
21602 identify a connection.
21603 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
21604 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
21605 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
21607 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
21608 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
21609 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
21610 pointed out by rovv.
21613 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
21614 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21615 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
21616 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
21617 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
21618 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
21619 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
21620 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
21621 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
21622 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
21623 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
21624 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
21625 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
21626 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
21627 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21630 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
21631 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
21632 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
21633 answer sections match.
21634 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
21635 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
21638 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
21639 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21642 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
21643 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
21644 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
21646 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
21647 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
21648 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21651 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
21652 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
21653 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
21654 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
21657 o Removed features:
21658 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
21659 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
21662 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
21663 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
21664 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
21665 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
21666 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
21667 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
21669 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
21670 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
21671 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
21674 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
21675 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
21676 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
21677 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
21678 be sent using an "early" cell.
21681 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
21682 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
21683 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
21684 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
21685 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
21686 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
21687 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
21690 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
21691 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
21692 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
21693 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
21694 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
21695 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
21696 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
21697 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
21698 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
21699 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
21700 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
21701 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
21702 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
21703 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
21704 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
21705 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
21708 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
21709 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
21710 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
21711 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
21712 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
21713 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
21714 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
21715 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
21716 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
21718 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
21719 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
21720 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
21721 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
21722 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
21725 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21726 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
21727 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
21728 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
21730 o Removed features:
21731 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
21732 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
21736 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
21738 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
21739 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
21740 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
21743 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
21744 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
21745 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
21748 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
21749 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
21750 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
21751 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
21752 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
21753 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
21754 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
21755 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
21756 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
21757 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
21758 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
21759 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
21760 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
21761 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
21762 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
21763 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
21764 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
21765 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
21766 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
21767 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
21768 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
21769 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
21770 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
21773 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
21774 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
21776 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
21777 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
21778 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
21779 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
21780 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
21781 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
21782 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
21784 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
21785 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
21786 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
21787 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
21788 found by Geoff Goodell.
21791 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
21792 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
21793 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
21794 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
21795 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
21796 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
21799 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
21800 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
21801 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
21804 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
21805 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
21806 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
21807 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
21808 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
21809 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
21810 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
21811 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
21812 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
21813 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
21814 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
21815 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
21816 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
21817 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
21820 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
21821 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
21822 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
21824 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
21825 fingerprints with or without space.
21826 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
21827 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
21828 partway through and wants to catch up.
21829 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
21830 state to start out in.
21833 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
21834 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
21835 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
21836 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
21837 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
21840 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
21841 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
21842 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
21843 some of the connection attempts fail.
21844 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
21845 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
21846 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
21847 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
21848 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
21849 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
21851 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
21852 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
21853 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
21856 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
21857 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
21858 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
21859 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
21860 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
21861 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
21862 and adds a variety of smaller features.
21865 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
21866 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
21867 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
21868 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
21870 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
21871 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
21872 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
21873 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
21875 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
21876 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
21877 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
21878 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
21879 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
21880 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
21881 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
21884 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
21885 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
21886 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
21887 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
21888 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
21890 o Memory fixes and improvements:
21891 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
21892 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
21893 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
21894 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
21895 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
21896 on a typical directory cache.
21897 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
21898 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
21899 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
21900 and may reduce fragmentation.
21901 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
21902 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
21903 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
21905 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
21906 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
21907 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
21909 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
21910 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
21914 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
21915 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
21916 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
21917 done that for a long time.
21918 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
21919 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
21920 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
21921 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
21924 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
21925 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
21926 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
21927 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
21928 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
21929 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
21931 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
21932 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
21933 output to messages of warning and error severity.
21934 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
21935 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
21936 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
21937 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
21938 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
21939 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
21940 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
21941 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
21942 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
21943 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
21944 directory requests we should expect to see.
21945 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
21947 - Lots of new unit tests.
21948 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
21949 two parallel lists in lockstep.
21952 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
21953 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
21954 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
21957 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
21958 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
21959 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
21960 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
21961 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
21962 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
21963 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
21966 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
21967 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
21968 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
21972 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
21973 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
21974 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
21977 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
21978 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
21979 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
21981 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
21982 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
21984 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
21985 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
21986 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
21987 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
21988 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
21989 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
21990 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
21992 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
21993 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
21994 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
21995 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
21996 - Fix compile on Windows.
21999 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
22000 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
22001 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
22002 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
22003 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
22004 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
22005 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
22008 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
22009 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
22012 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
22013 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
22014 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
22015 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
22017 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
22018 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
22019 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
22022 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
22023 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
22024 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
22025 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
22029 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
22030 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
22031 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
22032 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
22034 o Major security fixes:
22035 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
22036 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
22037 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
22038 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
22039 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
22042 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
22043 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22046 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
22047 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
22050 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
22051 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
22054 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
22055 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
22056 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
22059 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
22060 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22063 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
22064 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
22065 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
22066 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
22067 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
22069 o New directory authorities:
22070 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
22071 it has been down for months.
22072 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
22076 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
22077 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
22079 o Minor features (security):
22080 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
22081 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
22082 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
22085 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
22086 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
22087 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
22088 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
22089 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
22090 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
22091 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
22092 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
22093 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22095 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
22096 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
22097 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22098 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
22099 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
22100 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
22101 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22102 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
22103 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
22105 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
22106 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
22107 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
22108 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
22109 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
22110 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
22111 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
22112 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
22113 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
22114 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
22115 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
22116 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
22117 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
22118 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
22119 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
22120 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
22121 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
22122 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
22123 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
22126 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
22127 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
22128 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
22129 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
22132 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
22133 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
22134 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
22135 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
22138 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
22139 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
22140 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
22141 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
22142 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
22145 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
22146 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
22147 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
22148 certain censored countries by default again.
22151 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
22152 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22153 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
22154 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
22155 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22156 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
22157 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
22158 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
22160 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
22161 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
22162 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
22163 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
22164 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
22165 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
22166 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
22167 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
22168 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
22169 a directory. Fix from lodger.
22171 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
22172 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
22173 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
22174 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
22175 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
22176 RelayBandwidth* values.
22177 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
22178 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
22179 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
22180 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
22181 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
22182 get_interface_address6().
22183 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
22184 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
22185 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
22187 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
22188 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
22189 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
22190 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22191 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
22192 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
22193 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22194 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
22195 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
22196 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22199 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
22200 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
22201 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
22204 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
22205 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
22206 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
22207 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
22208 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
22211 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
22212 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
22213 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
22214 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
22215 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
22216 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
22217 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
22218 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
22219 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
22222 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
22223 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
22224 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
22225 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22228 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
22229 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
22230 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
22231 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
22232 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
22233 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
22234 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
22237 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
22238 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
22239 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
22240 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
22241 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
22242 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
22243 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
22245 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
22246 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
22247 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
22248 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
22249 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
22252 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
22253 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
22254 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
22255 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
22256 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
22257 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
22258 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
22259 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
22260 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
22261 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
22262 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
22263 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
22264 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
22265 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
22266 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
22267 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22268 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
22269 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22270 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22271 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
22272 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
22273 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
22274 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
22275 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
22276 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
22277 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
22279 o Minor features (performance):
22280 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
22282 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
22283 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
22284 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
22285 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
22286 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
22287 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
22288 non-system include paths.
22289 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
22290 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
22293 o Minor features (other):
22294 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
22296 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
22297 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
22298 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
22301 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
22302 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
22303 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
22304 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
22306 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
22307 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
22308 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
22309 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
22310 Should fix bug 537.
22311 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
22312 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
22313 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
22314 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
22315 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22317 o Minor bugfixes (other):
22318 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
22319 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
22320 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
22321 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
22322 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
22323 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
22324 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
22325 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
22326 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
22327 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
22328 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
22329 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
22330 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
22331 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
22332 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
22333 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
22334 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
22335 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
22336 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
22337 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
22338 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
22339 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
22340 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
22341 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
22344 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22345 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
22346 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
22350 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
22351 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
22352 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
22353 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
22354 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
22357 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
22358 Tor's x509 certificates.
22361 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
22362 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
22363 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
22364 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
22365 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
22366 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
22368 o Minor features (security):
22369 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
22370 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
22372 o Minor features (directory authority):
22373 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
22374 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
22375 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
22376 bandwidthburst values.
22378 o Minor features (controller):
22379 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
22380 processes from running us out of memory.
22382 o Minor features (misc):
22383 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
22384 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
22385 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
22386 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
22388 o Deprecated features (controller):
22389 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
22390 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
22391 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
22394 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
22395 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
22397 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
22398 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
22399 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22400 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
22401 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
22402 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22403 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
22404 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
22406 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
22407 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22408 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
22409 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
22410 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
22411 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
22412 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
22413 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
22415 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
22416 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
22417 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
22418 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
22419 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
22420 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
22421 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22422 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
22423 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22424 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
22425 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
22426 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22428 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22429 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
22431 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
22432 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
22433 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
22434 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
22435 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
22436 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
22439 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
22440 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
22441 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
22442 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
22443 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
22445 o New directory authorities:
22446 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
22450 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
22451 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
22452 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
22453 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
22454 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
22455 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
22456 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
22457 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
22461 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
22462 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
22463 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
22464 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
22465 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
22466 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
22467 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
22468 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
22469 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
22470 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
22473 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
22474 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
22475 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
22476 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
22480 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
22481 the request isn't encrypted.
22482 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
22483 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
22484 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
22485 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
22486 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
22489 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
22490 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
22493 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
22496 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
22497 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
22498 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
22500 o New directory authorities:
22501 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
22504 o Major performance improvements:
22505 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
22506 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
22507 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
22508 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
22509 memory fragmentation.
22512 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
22513 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
22514 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
22515 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
22516 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
22517 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
22518 bodies when they receive them.
22519 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
22520 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
22521 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
22523 o Minor performance improvements:
22524 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
22525 of them were actually distinct.
22526 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
22527 interested in a given message.
22530 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
22531 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
22532 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
22533 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
22534 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
22535 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
22536 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
22537 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
22538 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
22539 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
22540 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
22542 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
22543 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
22544 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
22545 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
22546 this country" and "1 person from this country".
22547 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
22548 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
22549 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
22550 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
22551 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
22553 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
22554 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
22555 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
22557 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
22558 but client versions are not.
22559 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
22560 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
22562 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
22563 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
22564 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
22565 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
22566 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
22568 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
22569 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
22570 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
22573 o Minor features (controller):
22574 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
22575 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
22576 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
22577 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
22579 o Minor features (directory authorities):
22580 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
22581 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
22582 running a test network on a single host.
22583 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
22584 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
22586 o Minor features (bridges):
22587 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
22588 unencrypted connections.
22590 o Minor features (other):
22591 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
22592 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
22593 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
22594 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
22597 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
22598 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
22599 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
22600 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
22603 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
22604 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
22605 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
22606 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
22607 on network address.
22610 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
22611 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
22612 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
22613 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
22614 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
22615 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
22616 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
22617 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
22618 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
22619 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
22620 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
22621 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
22624 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
22625 rebuild our server descriptor.
22626 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
22627 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
22628 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
22629 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
22630 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
22631 nonstandard integer types.
22632 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
22633 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
22634 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
22635 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
22636 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
22638 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
22639 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
22640 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
22641 when they receive them.
22642 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
22643 This includes some 64-bit systems.
22644 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
22645 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
22646 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
22647 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
22648 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
22649 router_get_by_hexdigest().
22650 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
22651 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
22655 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
22656 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
22657 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
22660 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
22661 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
22662 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
22663 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
22664 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
22665 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
22666 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
22667 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22670 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
22671 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
22672 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
22673 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
22675 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
22676 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
22679 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
22680 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
22683 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
22685 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
22686 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
22688 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
22689 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
22690 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
22691 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22692 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
22693 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
22694 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
22695 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
22696 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
22697 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
22701 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
22702 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
22703 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
22706 - Make the unit tests build again.
22707 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
22708 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
22709 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
22710 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
22711 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
22712 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22713 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
22714 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
22715 the next one as a duplicate.
22718 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
22719 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
22720 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
22721 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
22724 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
22725 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
22726 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
22729 o New directory authorities:
22730 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
22734 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
22735 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
22736 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
22737 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
22738 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
22739 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
22740 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
22742 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
22743 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
22745 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
22746 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
22747 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
22748 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
22749 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
22750 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
22752 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
22753 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
22754 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
22755 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
22756 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
22757 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
22760 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
22761 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
22762 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
22763 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
22764 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
22765 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
22766 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
22767 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
22768 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
22769 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
22770 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
22771 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
22772 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
22773 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
22774 where Tor is blocked.
22775 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
22776 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
22777 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
22778 to a file periodically.
22779 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
22780 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
22781 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
22785 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
22786 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
22787 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
22788 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
22789 in the relevant networkstatus document.
22790 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
22791 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
22792 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
22793 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
22794 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
22795 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
22796 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
22797 by Karsten Loesing.
22798 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
22799 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
22800 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
22801 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
22802 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
22803 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22804 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
22805 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
22806 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
22807 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
22808 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
22809 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
22810 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
22811 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
22812 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
22813 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
22814 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
22815 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
22816 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
22817 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
22818 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22819 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
22820 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22821 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
22822 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
22823 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
22824 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
22825 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
22828 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
22829 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
22830 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
22831 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
22832 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
22833 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
22834 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
22835 even if your DirPort isn't on.
22836 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
22837 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
22838 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
22840 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
22841 multiple controller passwords.
22842 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
22843 router based on the router's purpose.
22844 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
22845 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
22846 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
22847 the approved-routers file.
22850 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
22851 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
22852 well as a few minor bugs.
22855 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
22856 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
22857 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
22859 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
22860 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
22861 rebuild our server descriptor.
22863 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
22864 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
22865 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
22866 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
22867 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
22868 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
22869 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
22870 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
22871 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
22872 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
22874 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
22875 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
22876 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
22877 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
22878 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
22879 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
22880 then be flexible about families.
22883 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
22884 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
22885 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
22889 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
22890 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
22891 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
22892 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
22893 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
22896 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
22897 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
22898 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
22899 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
22900 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
22903 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
22904 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
22906 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
22907 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
22908 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
22909 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
22910 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
22911 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
22912 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
22914 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
22915 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
22916 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
22917 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
22920 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
22921 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
22924 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
22925 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
22926 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22929 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
22930 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
22931 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
22932 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
22933 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
22934 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
22935 addresses many more minor issues.
22937 o New directory authorities:
22938 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
22941 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
22942 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
22943 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
22944 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
22946 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
22947 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
22948 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
22949 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
22950 and are reaching it.
22951 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
22952 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
22953 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
22954 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
22955 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
22956 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
22959 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
22960 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
22962 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
22963 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
22964 no longer work for clients.
22965 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
22966 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
22968 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
22969 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
22970 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
22971 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
22972 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
22973 enough directory information to build a circuit.
22974 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
22975 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
22976 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
22977 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
22978 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
22979 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
22981 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
22982 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
22983 requests for all of them.
22984 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
22986 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
22987 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
22988 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
22990 o New requirements:
22991 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
22992 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
22996 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
22997 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
22998 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
22999 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
23000 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
23001 networkstatuses that we already have.
23002 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
23003 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
23004 we start knowing some directory caches.
23005 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
23006 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
23007 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
23008 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
23009 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
23010 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
23011 Good in combination with --hash-password.
23012 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
23013 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
23015 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
23016 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
23017 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
23019 o Minor features (bridges):
23020 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
23021 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
23022 back to trying the bridge directly.
23023 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
23024 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
23026 o Minor features (controller):
23027 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
23028 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
23029 report the value as a "minimum skew."
23032 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
23033 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
23037 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
23038 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
23039 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
23040 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
23041 reported by tup and ioerror.
23042 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
23043 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
23045 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
23046 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
23048 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
23049 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
23050 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
23052 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
23053 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23054 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
23055 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23056 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
23057 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23058 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
23060 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
23061 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
23062 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23064 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
23065 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
23066 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
23067 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
23068 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
23071 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
23072 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
23073 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
23074 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
23075 lists for a few hours each day.
23077 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23078 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
23079 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
23080 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
23081 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
23082 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
23083 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
23084 rend_process_relay_cell().
23086 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
23087 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
23088 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
23089 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
23090 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
23091 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
23092 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
23093 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
23095 o Major bugfixes (other):
23096 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
23097 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
23098 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
23099 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
23100 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
23101 circuit cannibalization).
23102 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
23103 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
23104 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
23105 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
23106 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
23107 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
23110 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
23111 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
23113 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
23114 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
23115 absent. Resolves bug 467.
23116 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
23117 a way to trigger this remotely.)
23118 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
23119 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
23120 were reporting the dir port.)
23121 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
23122 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
23123 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
23124 the future. Fixes bug 434.
23125 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
23127 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
23128 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
23129 the onion key from getting rotated.
23130 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
23131 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
23132 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
23133 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
23134 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
23135 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
23136 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
23137 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
23138 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
23141 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
23142 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
23143 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
23144 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
23145 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
23146 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
23148 o Major features (directory system):
23149 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
23150 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
23151 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
23152 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
23153 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
23154 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
23155 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
23156 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
23157 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
23158 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
23159 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
23160 Partially implements proposal 122.
23161 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
23162 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
23165 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
23166 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
23167 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
23168 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
23170 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
23171 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
23172 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
23173 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
23174 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
23175 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23176 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
23177 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
23178 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23180 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
23181 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
23183 - Allow certificates to include an address.
23184 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
23185 and download operations.
23186 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
23187 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
23188 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
23189 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
23190 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
23191 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
23193 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
23194 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
23197 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
23198 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
23199 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
23200 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
23202 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
23203 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
23204 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
23206 o Minor features (performance):
23207 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
23208 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
23209 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
23210 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
23211 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
23212 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
23213 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
23216 o Minor features (compilation):
23217 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
23218 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
23220 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
23221 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
23222 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
23223 stick around indefinitely.
23224 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
23226 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
23227 v3 directory authority.
23228 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
23229 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
23231 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
23232 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
23233 "moria on moria:9031."
23234 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
23235 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
23236 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
23237 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
23238 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
23239 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
23240 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
23241 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
23243 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
23244 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
23245 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
23246 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
23247 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
23248 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
23249 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
23250 downloads than for other types.
23252 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
23253 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
23255 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
23256 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
23257 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23259 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
23260 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
23261 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23262 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
23263 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
23264 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
23265 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
23266 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
23268 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
23269 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
23270 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
23271 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
23272 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
23273 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
23274 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
23275 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23276 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
23277 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
23278 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
23280 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
23281 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
23284 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23285 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
23286 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
23287 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
23288 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
23289 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
23290 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
23291 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
23292 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
23293 so that they all take the same named flags.
23296 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
23297 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
23298 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
23301 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
23302 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
23303 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
23304 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
23305 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
23306 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
23308 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
23309 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
23310 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
23311 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
23312 annotations along with descriptors.
23313 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
23314 source, and its purpose.
23315 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
23317 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
23318 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
23319 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
23320 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
23323 o Major features (directory authorities):
23324 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
23326 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
23327 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
23328 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
23329 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
23330 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
23331 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
23333 o Major features (v3 directory system):
23334 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
23335 and download the descriptors listed in them.
23336 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
23337 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
23338 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
23340 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23341 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
23342 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
23343 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
23346 o Major bugfixes (performance):
23347 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
23348 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
23349 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
23350 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
23352 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
23353 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
23354 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
23355 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
23356 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
23357 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
23359 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
23360 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
23362 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
23363 certificate is requested.
23364 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
23365 certificate requests.
23367 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
23368 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
23369 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
23370 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
23373 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
23374 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
23375 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
23376 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23378 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
23379 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
23381 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
23382 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
23383 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
23384 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
23385 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
23386 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
23387 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
23388 downloads more sensible.
23389 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
23390 another when serving certificates.
23392 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
23393 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
23394 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
23395 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
23397 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
23398 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
23399 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
23401 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
23402 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
23404 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
23405 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
23406 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
23407 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
23408 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
23410 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
23411 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
23412 WARN-severity events.
23413 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
23414 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
23415 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
23417 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
23418 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
23419 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
23421 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
23422 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
23423 circuit cannibalization).
23425 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23426 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
23427 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
23428 new module, networkstatus.c.
23429 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
23430 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
23431 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
23432 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
23433 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
23434 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
23435 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
23436 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
23437 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
23439 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
23441 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
23442 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
23445 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
23446 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
23447 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
23448 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
23450 o New directory authorities:
23451 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
23452 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
23454 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23455 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
23456 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23458 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
23459 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
23460 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
23461 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
23462 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
23463 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
23464 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
23465 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
23466 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
23467 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
23468 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23470 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
23471 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
23472 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
23473 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
23474 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
23475 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
23476 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
23477 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
23478 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
23480 o Minor features (security):
23481 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
23482 address maps to an internal address space.
23483 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
23484 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
23486 o Minor features (guard nodes):
23487 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
23488 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
23489 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
23490 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
23492 o Minor features (speed):
23493 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
23494 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
23495 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
23496 on big-endian hosts.)
23498 o Minor features (controller):
23499 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
23500 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
23501 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
23502 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
23505 o Removed features:
23506 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
23507 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
23508 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
23509 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
23510 implementation of proposal 104.
23511 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
23512 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
23513 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
23514 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
23515 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
23516 patch from Karsten Loesing.
23517 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
23518 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
23521 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
23522 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
23523 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23524 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
23525 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23526 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
23527 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23528 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
23529 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
23530 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23531 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
23532 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
23533 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
23534 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23535 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
23536 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
23537 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
23538 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23539 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
23540 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
23542 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23543 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
23544 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
23546 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
23547 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
23548 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
23549 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
23552 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
23553 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
23554 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
23555 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
23556 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
23559 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
23560 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
23563 o Major bugfixes (security):
23564 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
23565 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
23566 become more of a headache than it's worth.
23568 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
23569 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
23570 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
23572 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
23573 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
23574 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
23575 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
23576 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
23577 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
23579 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
23580 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
23581 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
23582 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
23583 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
23585 o Minor features (controller):
23586 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
23587 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
23588 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
23589 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
23591 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
23592 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
23593 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
23594 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
23595 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
23596 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
23597 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
23598 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
23600 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
23601 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
23602 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
23603 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
23604 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
23605 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
23606 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
23607 if we ran off the end of the list.
23608 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
23609 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
23610 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
23611 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
23612 every time we change any piece of our config.
23613 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
23614 encourage people using them to stop.
23615 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
23617 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
23618 servers to choose a circuit.
23619 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
23620 unparseable piece of it.
23623 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
23624 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
23625 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
23626 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
23629 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
23630 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
23631 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
23632 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
23633 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
23635 o New directory authorities:
23636 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
23639 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
23640 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
23641 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
23642 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
23644 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
23645 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
23646 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
23648 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
23649 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
23650 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
23651 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
23652 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
23653 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
23655 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
23656 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
23657 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23660 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
23661 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
23662 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
23663 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
23667 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
23668 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
23669 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
23670 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
23672 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
23673 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
23675 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
23676 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
23677 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
23678 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
23679 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
23680 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
23681 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23682 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
23683 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23684 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
23687 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
23688 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
23689 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
23690 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
23691 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
23692 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
23694 o Removed features:
23695 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
23696 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
23697 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
23698 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
23701 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
23702 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
23703 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
23704 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
23705 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
23708 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
23709 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
23710 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
23711 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
23712 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
23713 reported by lodger.
23715 o Minor features (directory servers):
23716 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
23717 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
23719 o Minor features (directory voting):
23720 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
23723 o Minor features (security):
23724 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
23725 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
23726 encourage people using them to stop.
23728 o Minor features (controller):
23729 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
23730 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
23731 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
23732 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
23733 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
23734 cookie authentication file, and config option
23735 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
23737 o Minor features (unit testing):
23738 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
23739 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
23740 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
23741 logging for the unit tests.
23743 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
23744 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
23745 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
23746 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
23747 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
23748 every time we change any piece of our config.
23749 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
23750 the future. Fixes bug 434.
23751 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
23753 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
23754 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
23755 the onion key from getting rotated.
23756 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
23757 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
23758 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
23761 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
23762 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
23763 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
23765 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
23766 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
23767 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
23768 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
23771 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
23772 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
23773 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
23774 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
23775 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
23776 TorK, etc. Or worse.
23778 o Major security fixes:
23779 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
23780 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
23783 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
23784 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
23785 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
23786 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
23788 o Major security fixes:
23789 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
23790 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
23792 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
23793 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
23796 o Minor features (performance):
23797 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
23798 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
23799 performance-intensive.
23800 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
23801 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
23802 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
23803 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
23804 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
23805 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
23809 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
23810 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
23811 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
23812 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
23816 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
23817 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
23818 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
23819 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
23820 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
23822 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
23823 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
23824 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
23825 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
23827 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
23828 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
23829 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
23830 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
23831 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
23833 o Major features (experimental):
23834 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
23835 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
23836 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
23837 handling before it's ready for use.
23840 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
23841 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
23842 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
23843 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
23844 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
23845 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
23847 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
23848 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
23849 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
23850 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
23851 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
23853 o Major bugfixes (directory):
23854 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
23855 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
23857 o Minor features (controller):
23858 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
23859 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
23860 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
23861 from Robert Hogan.)
23862 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
23863 from Robert Hogan.)
23864 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
23865 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
23867 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
23868 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
23869 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
23870 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
23871 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
23872 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
23873 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
23876 o Minor features (misc):
23877 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
23879 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
23880 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
23881 the authority identity key.
23882 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
23884 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
23885 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
23886 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
23889 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
23890 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
23891 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
23892 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
23893 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
23894 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
23895 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
23896 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
23898 o Performance improvements:
23899 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
23901 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
23902 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
23905 o Deprecated and removed features:
23906 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
23907 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
23908 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
23909 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
23911 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
23912 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
23913 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
23914 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
23915 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
23916 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
23917 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
23918 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
23919 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
23922 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
23923 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
23924 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
23925 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
23926 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
23928 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
23929 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
23932 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
23933 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
23934 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
23935 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
23936 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
23937 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
23938 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
23939 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
23940 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
23943 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
23944 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
23945 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
23946 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
23948 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
23949 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
23951 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23952 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
23953 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
23954 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
23955 routerlist while inserting a new router.
23956 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
23957 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
23959 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
23960 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
23961 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
23963 o Major bugfixes (security):
23964 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
23966 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
23967 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
23968 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
23969 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
23970 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
23971 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
23972 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
23973 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
23974 guard list unless we need to.
23976 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
23977 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
23978 don't get overused as guards.
23980 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
23981 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
23982 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
23983 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
23984 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
23986 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
23987 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
23988 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
23991 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
23992 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
23993 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
23994 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
23995 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
23996 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
23997 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
23998 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
24001 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
24002 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
24003 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
24004 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
24006 o Minor features (directory):
24007 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
24008 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
24009 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
24010 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
24012 o Minor build issues:
24013 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
24014 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
24015 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
24016 in the tarball, not as "x".
24019 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
24020 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
24021 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
24022 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
24023 forward on a lot of fronts.
24025 o Major features, server usability:
24026 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
24027 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
24028 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
24029 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
24031 o Major features, client usability:
24032 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
24033 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
24034 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
24035 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
24036 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
24037 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
24038 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
24039 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
24041 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
24042 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
24043 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
24044 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
24045 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
24046 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
24048 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
24049 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
24050 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
24052 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
24053 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
24054 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
24055 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
24056 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
24058 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
24059 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
24060 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
24061 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
24063 o Major features, other:
24064 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
24065 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
24066 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
24067 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
24068 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
24071 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
24072 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
24073 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
24076 o Minor fixes (resource management):
24077 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
24078 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
24079 our allocated connection limit.
24080 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
24081 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
24082 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
24083 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
24084 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
24086 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
24087 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
24088 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
24090 o Minor features (build):
24091 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
24092 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
24093 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
24094 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
24096 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
24097 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
24098 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
24099 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
24100 Use this version consistently in log messages.
24102 o Minor features (logging):
24103 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
24104 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
24105 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
24106 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
24107 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
24110 o Minor features (directory system):
24111 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
24112 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
24113 not to serve V2 directory information.
24114 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
24115 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
24116 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
24118 o Minor features (controller):
24119 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
24120 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
24122 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
24123 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
24124 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
24125 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
24126 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
24127 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
24129 o Minor features (hidden services):
24130 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
24131 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
24132 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
24133 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
24135 o Minor features (other):
24137 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
24138 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
24139 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
24140 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
24141 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
24142 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
24143 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
24144 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
24145 longer a completely silly thing to do.
24146 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
24147 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
24148 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
24149 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
24151 o Removed features:
24152 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
24153 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
24154 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
24155 back an error and close the connection.
24156 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
24157 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
24160 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
24161 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
24162 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
24163 makes the log messages nicer.
24164 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
24165 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
24166 partial results on small file reads.
24168 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
24169 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
24170 more often than they are allowed to appear.
24171 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
24172 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
24174 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
24175 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
24176 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
24177 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
24179 o Minor bugfixes (other):
24180 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
24181 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
24182 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
24183 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
24184 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
24185 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
24186 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
24187 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
24188 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
24189 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
24191 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
24192 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
24193 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
24195 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
24196 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
24197 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
24198 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
24200 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
24201 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
24202 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
24204 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
24205 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
24208 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24209 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
24210 implicit in other procedure arguments.
24211 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
24212 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
24213 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
24214 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
24215 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
24216 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
24217 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
24218 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
24219 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
24222 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
24223 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
24224 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
24225 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
24227 o Directory authority changes:
24228 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
24229 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
24230 or use hidden services.
24232 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24233 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
24234 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
24235 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
24236 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
24237 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
24238 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
24239 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
24240 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
24243 o Major bugfixes (security):
24244 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
24245 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
24246 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
24248 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
24249 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
24250 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
24251 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
24252 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
24253 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
24254 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
24255 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
24256 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
24257 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
24260 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
24261 purpose=controller.
24262 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
24263 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
24265 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
24266 having a hard time downloading.
24267 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
24268 partial results on small file reads.
24269 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
24270 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
24271 the gaps in the store get very large.
24274 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
24275 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
24277 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
24278 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
24281 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
24282 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
24283 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
24284 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
24285 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
24286 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
24288 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
24289 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
24290 free speech on the Internet.
24293 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
24294 get one we don't recognize.
24295 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
24296 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
24299 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
24301 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
24302 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
24303 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
24304 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
24307 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
24308 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
24311 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
24312 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
24313 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
24314 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
24315 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
24316 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
24317 ask for GUARDS too.
24320 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
24321 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
24322 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
24323 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
24324 on Win98 and friends again.
24326 o Minor bugfixes (other):
24327 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
24328 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
24331 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
24332 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
24333 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
24334 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
24335 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
24336 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
24337 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
24338 and maybe also bug 397.)
24340 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
24341 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
24342 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
24344 o Minor bugfixes (server):
24345 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
24348 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
24349 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
24350 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
24351 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
24352 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
24354 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
24355 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
24356 load on authorities.
24358 o Minor bugfixes (other):
24359 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
24360 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
24361 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
24363 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
24365 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
24366 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
24367 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
24368 the last of bug 326.)
24369 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
24370 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
24374 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
24375 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24376 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
24377 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
24378 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
24379 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
24380 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
24382 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
24383 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
24385 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
24386 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
24387 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
24389 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
24390 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
24391 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
24393 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
24394 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
24395 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
24396 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
24398 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
24399 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
24401 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
24402 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
24403 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
24406 o Minor bugfixes (other):
24407 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
24408 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
24409 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
24410 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
24411 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
24412 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
24413 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
24414 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
24415 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
24416 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
24417 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
24418 other than file-not-found.
24419 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
24420 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
24421 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
24422 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
24423 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
24424 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
24425 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
24426 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
24427 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
24428 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
24429 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
24430 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
24431 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
24432 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
24433 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
24435 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
24437 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
24438 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
24440 o Minor features (controller):
24441 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
24442 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
24443 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
24445 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
24446 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
24447 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
24448 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
24449 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
24450 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
24451 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
24452 connected or resolved cell.
24454 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
24455 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
24456 some profiles, but not others.)
24457 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
24458 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
24459 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
24462 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
24464 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
24465 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
24466 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
24467 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
24468 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
24469 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
24470 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
24471 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
24472 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
24473 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
24474 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
24475 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
24476 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
24477 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
24478 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
24480 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
24483 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
24484 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
24485 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
24486 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
24487 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
24488 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
24489 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
24491 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
24492 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
24493 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
24494 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
24495 buckets go absurdly negative.
24496 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
24497 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
24500 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
24501 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
24502 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
24503 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
24504 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
24505 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
24506 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
24507 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
24510 o Major bugfixes (other):
24511 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
24512 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
24513 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
24514 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
24516 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
24518 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
24519 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
24521 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
24522 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
24523 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
24524 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
24525 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
24526 to wait for 0.2.0.)
24528 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
24529 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
24530 possible memory-stomping bugs.
24531 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
24532 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
24534 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
24535 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
24536 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
24537 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
24538 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
24539 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
24541 o Minor bugfixes (other):
24542 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
24543 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
24544 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
24546 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
24547 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
24548 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
24549 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
24550 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
24551 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
24552 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
24553 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
24554 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
24555 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
24556 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
24557 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
24558 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
24560 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
24561 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
24562 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
24563 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
24564 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
24565 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
24566 to the resulting address.
24569 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
24570 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
24571 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
24572 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
24575 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
24576 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
24578 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
24579 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
24580 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
24581 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
24582 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
24583 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
24584 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
24585 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
24586 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
24587 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
24588 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
24589 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
24590 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
24591 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
24592 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
24593 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
24594 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
24597 o Minor features (controller):
24598 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
24599 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
24600 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
24601 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
24602 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
24603 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
24604 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
24608 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
24610 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
24611 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
24612 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
24613 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
24614 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
24615 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
24618 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
24619 weren't planning to resolve.
24620 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
24621 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
24622 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
24623 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
24624 the controller from learning about current events.
24626 o Minor features (more controller status events):
24627 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
24628 learn when our address changes.
24629 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
24630 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
24631 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
24632 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
24634 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
24635 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
24636 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
24637 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
24638 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
24639 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
24640 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
24641 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
24642 are accepted by a directory.
24643 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
24644 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
24645 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
24646 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
24647 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
24649 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
24650 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
24651 about changes to DNS server status.
24653 o Minor features (directory):
24654 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
24655 too much load to the exit nodes.
24658 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
24660 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
24661 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
24662 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
24663 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
24664 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
24666 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
24667 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
24668 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
24670 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
24671 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
24672 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
24673 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
24674 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
24675 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
24676 config options if you like.
24678 o Minor features (config and docs):
24679 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
24680 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
24681 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
24682 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
24683 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
24685 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
24686 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
24687 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
24688 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
24689 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
24691 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
24692 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
24693 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
24694 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
24695 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
24696 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
24697 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
24698 documentation: "make check-docs".
24699 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
24700 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
24702 o Minor features (DNS):
24703 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
24704 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
24705 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
24706 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
24707 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
24708 our tests for DNS hijacking.
24710 o Minor features (directory):
24711 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
24712 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
24713 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
24714 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
24715 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
24716 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
24717 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
24718 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
24719 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
24720 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
24721 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
24722 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
24723 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
24724 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
24725 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
24726 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
24727 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
24728 for the thing we're trying to download.
24729 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
24730 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
24731 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
24733 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
24734 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
24735 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
24738 o Minor features (controller):
24739 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
24740 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
24742 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
24743 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
24744 entry guard status as it changes.
24746 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
24747 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
24748 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
24749 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
24750 to set log options.
24751 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
24752 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
24753 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
24754 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
24757 o Major bugfixes (security):
24758 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
24759 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
24760 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
24761 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
24763 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
24764 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
24765 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
24766 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
24767 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
24769 o Major bugfixes (other):
24770 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
24771 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
24772 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
24773 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
24775 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
24776 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
24777 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
24778 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
24779 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
24780 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
24784 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
24785 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
24786 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
24787 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
24788 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
24790 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
24791 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
24793 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
24794 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
24795 family lists conveniently.
24796 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
24797 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
24798 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
24800 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
24801 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
24803 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
24804 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
24805 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
24806 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
24807 if their identity keys are as expected.
24808 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
24809 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
24810 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
24812 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
24813 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
24814 reported by Mike Perry.
24815 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
24816 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
24817 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
24818 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
24821 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
24822 o Security bugfixes:
24823 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
24824 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
24825 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
24826 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
24830 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
24831 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
24832 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
24835 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
24837 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
24838 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
24839 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
24842 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
24843 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
24844 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
24845 watching for STREAM events.
24846 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
24847 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
24848 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
24849 operations, for profiling.
24852 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
24853 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
24854 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
24855 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
24856 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
24857 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
24859 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
24863 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
24864 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
24865 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
24866 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
24867 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
24869 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
24870 correctly in the Windows installer.
24871 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
24872 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
24873 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
24874 MIPSpro C compiler.
24875 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
24876 when we're running as a client.
24879 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
24881 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
24882 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
24883 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
24884 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
24885 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
24886 its circuits on demand.
24887 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
24888 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
24889 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
24890 connections more stable on average.
24891 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
24892 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
24893 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
24895 o Security bugfixes:
24896 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
24897 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
24900 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
24902 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
24903 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
24904 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
24905 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
24906 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
24907 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
24908 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
24909 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
24912 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
24914 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
24915 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
24916 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
24917 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
24918 routers for even longer.
24919 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
24920 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
24921 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
24922 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
24923 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
24924 caching HTTP proxies.
24925 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
24928 o Minor features, controller:
24929 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
24930 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
24931 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
24932 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
24934 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
24935 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
24936 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
24937 working much like those for circuit events.
24938 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
24939 about the current status of a router.
24940 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
24941 a router's status has changed.
24942 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
24943 can tell which events and features are supported.
24944 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
24945 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
24947 o Security bugfixes:
24948 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
24949 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
24952 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
24953 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
24954 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
24955 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
24956 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
24957 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
24958 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
24959 long nicknames where appropriate.
24960 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
24961 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
24962 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
24963 chews through many circuits before giving up.
24964 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
24965 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
24966 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
24967 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
24968 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
24969 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
24971 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
24972 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
24973 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
24975 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
24976 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
24977 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
24978 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
24979 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
24980 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
24981 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
24982 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
24983 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
24984 (reported by fookoowa).
24985 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
24986 and reported by some Centos users.
24987 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
24988 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
24989 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
24990 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
24991 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
24992 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
24993 before we check for libevent.
24996 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
24998 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
24999 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
25000 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
25001 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
25002 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
25003 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
25004 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
25005 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
25006 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
25007 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
25008 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
25009 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
25010 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
25011 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
25012 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
25013 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
25014 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
25015 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
25016 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
25017 lets you turn it off.
25018 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
25019 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
25020 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
25021 us into the directory more quickly.
25023 o New/improved config options:
25024 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
25025 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
25026 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
25027 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
25028 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
25029 all the machines on the same subnet.
25030 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
25031 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
25032 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
25033 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
25034 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
25035 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
25036 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
25037 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
25038 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
25039 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
25041 o Minor features, controller:
25042 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
25043 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
25044 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
25045 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
25046 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
25047 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
25048 for more information.
25049 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
25050 best guess to the user.
25051 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
25052 descriptor has changed.
25053 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
25055 o Minor features, other:
25056 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
25057 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
25058 useful to the network.
25059 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
25060 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
25061 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
25062 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
25063 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
25064 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
25065 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
25066 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
25067 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
25068 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
25069 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
25070 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
25071 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
25072 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
25073 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
25075 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
25076 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
25077 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
25078 could return an unnamed server instead.
25079 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
25080 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
25081 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
25082 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
25083 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
25084 a more attractive target for compromise.)
25085 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
25086 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
25087 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
25089 o Major bugfixes, other:
25090 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
25091 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
25092 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
25093 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
25094 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
25095 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
25096 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
25097 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
25098 its circuits on demand.
25099 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
25100 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
25101 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
25102 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
25104 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
25105 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
25106 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
25107 we don't recognize.
25108 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
25110 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
25111 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
25112 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
25113 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
25114 "extendcircuit" request.
25115 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
25116 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
25117 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
25119 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
25120 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
25121 instead of "X resolved to X".
25122 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
25123 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
25124 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
25125 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
25126 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
25127 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
25128 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
25129 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
25130 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
25132 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
25133 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
25134 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
25135 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
25136 result more than once.
25137 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
25138 non-versioning dirservers.
25139 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
25140 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
25142 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
25143 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
25144 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
25145 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
25146 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
25147 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
25148 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
25149 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
25150 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
25152 o Packaging, features:
25153 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
25154 now universal binaries.
25155 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
25156 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
25157 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
25159 o Packaging, bugfixes:
25160 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
25161 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
25162 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
25163 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
25165 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
25166 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
25167 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
25170 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
25171 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
25172 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
25176 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
25178 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
25179 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
25180 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
25181 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
25182 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
25183 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
25184 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
25185 it can't resolve its hostname.
25188 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
25189 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
25190 "extendcircuit" request.
25191 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
25192 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
25193 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
25194 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
25196 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
25197 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
25198 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
25200 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
25201 methods: these are known to be buggy.
25202 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
25203 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
25204 we don't recognize.
25207 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
25209 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
25210 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
25211 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
25212 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
25213 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
25214 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
25215 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
25216 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
25217 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
25218 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
25219 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
25220 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
25221 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
25222 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
25223 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
25224 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
25225 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
25226 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
25227 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
25228 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
25229 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
25230 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
25231 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
25232 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
25235 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
25236 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
25237 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
25238 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
25239 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
25240 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
25241 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
25242 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
25243 recommendation system saner.)
25244 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
25246 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
25247 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
25248 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
25249 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
25250 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
25251 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
25252 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
25253 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
25254 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
25255 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
25256 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
25257 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
25258 your ORPort is set.
25259 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
25260 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
25261 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
25262 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
25263 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
25264 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
25265 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
25266 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
25267 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
25268 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
25269 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
25270 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
25272 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
25273 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
25274 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
25275 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
25276 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
25277 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
25280 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
25281 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
25282 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
25283 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
25284 our DirPort now, etc.
25285 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
25286 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
25287 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
25288 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
25289 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
25290 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
25291 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
25293 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
25294 whether the config options are bad or good.
25295 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
25296 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
25297 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
25298 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
25299 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
25300 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
25301 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
25302 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
25305 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
25306 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
25307 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
25308 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
25309 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
25310 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
25311 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
25312 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
25313 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
25314 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
25315 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
25316 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
25317 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
25318 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
25319 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
25320 of it), is not therefore "up".
25321 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
25322 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
25323 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
25324 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
25325 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
25326 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
25329 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
25331 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
25332 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
25333 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
25334 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
25335 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
25336 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
25337 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
25338 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
25339 test reachability, so you won't publish.
25342 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
25343 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
25344 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
25345 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
25346 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
25348 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
25349 own server descriptor yet.
25352 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
25354 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
25355 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
25356 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
25357 make sure to test via one of these.
25358 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
25359 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
25360 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
25361 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
25362 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
25364 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
25365 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
25366 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
25369 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
25370 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
25371 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
25372 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
25373 directory authority.
25374 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
25375 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
25376 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
25377 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
25380 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
25381 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
25382 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
25384 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
25385 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
25386 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
25387 current guards when picking a new guard.
25388 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
25389 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
25390 when we had more than one pending.
25391 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
25392 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
25393 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
25394 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
25395 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
25396 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
25397 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
25398 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
25399 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
25400 debug the reachability problems better.
25402 o Log / documentation fixes:
25403 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
25404 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
25405 about protocol violations by others.
25406 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
25407 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
25408 about what happened to our old torrc.
25411 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
25413 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
25415 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
25416 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
25417 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
25418 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
25421 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
25423 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
25424 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
25425 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
25426 old ORPort and receive connections.
25427 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
25429 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
25430 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
25431 and network-statuses.
25432 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
25433 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
25434 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
25435 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
25437 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
25440 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
25441 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
25442 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
25445 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
25447 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
25448 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
25449 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
25450 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
25451 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
25454 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
25455 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
25457 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
25458 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
25459 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
25460 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
25461 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
25462 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
25463 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
25464 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
25465 rather than not sending anything back at all.
25466 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
25467 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
25468 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
25469 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
25470 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
25471 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
25472 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
25473 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
25474 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
25475 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
25476 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
25477 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
25478 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
25479 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
25480 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
25481 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
25482 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
25483 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
25484 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
25485 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
25486 default ulimit -n is 1024.
25489 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
25490 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
25491 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
25492 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
25495 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
25497 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
25498 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
25499 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
25500 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
25501 entry guards running these flawed versions.
25502 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
25503 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
25504 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
25505 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
25506 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
25509 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
25510 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
25512 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
25513 and it is confusing some users.
25514 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
25515 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
25516 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
25517 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
25518 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
25521 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
25523 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
25524 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
25525 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
25526 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
25527 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
25528 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
25529 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
25530 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
25531 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
25532 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
25533 dirport is set for now.
25535 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
25536 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
25537 unattached before we fail it?
25538 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
25539 at least this many seconds ago.
25540 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
25541 at least this many seconds ago.
25544 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
25545 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
25546 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
25547 or resolve-wait stream.
25548 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
25549 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
25550 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
25551 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
25552 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
25553 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
25554 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
25555 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
25557 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
25558 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
25559 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
25560 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
25561 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
25562 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
25563 given as hex digests.
25564 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
25565 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
25566 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
25567 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
25568 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
25569 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
25570 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
25571 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
25574 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25575 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
25576 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
25577 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
25578 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
25579 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
25580 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
25581 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
25582 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
25583 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
25584 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
25587 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
25588 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
25589 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
25590 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
25591 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
25592 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
25593 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
25596 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
25597 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
25598 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
25599 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
25600 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
25601 misreading their logs.
25602 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
25603 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
25604 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
25605 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
25606 valid router descriptors.
25607 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
25608 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
25609 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
25610 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
25611 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
25612 silently resetting it to its default.
25613 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
25615 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
25618 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
25619 use clean circuits.
25620 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
25621 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
25622 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
25623 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
25624 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
25626 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
25627 because older Tors do not understand it.
25628 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
25632 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
25633 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
25634 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
25635 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
25636 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
25637 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
25638 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
25639 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
25640 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
25641 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
25642 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
25644 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
25645 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
25646 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
25647 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
25649 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
25650 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
25653 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
25654 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
25655 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
25656 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
25657 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
25658 without getting overloaded.
25659 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
25661 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
25662 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
25663 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
25664 be forward-compatible.
25665 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
25666 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
25667 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
25668 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
25670 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
25671 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
25672 and OR conns to port 443.
25673 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
25674 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
25676 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
25677 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
25678 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
25679 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
25680 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
25681 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
25682 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
25685 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
25686 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25687 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
25688 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
25690 o Other important bugfixes:
25691 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
25692 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
25693 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
25694 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
25696 o Backported features:
25697 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
25698 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
25699 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
25700 without getting overloaded.
25701 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
25702 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
25703 503's whenever they feel busy.
25704 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
25705 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
25706 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
25707 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
25708 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
25711 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
25712 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
25713 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
25714 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
25715 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
25716 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
25717 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
25718 know if the crashes continue.
25719 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
25720 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
25721 seg faults in at least some cases.)
25722 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
25723 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
25724 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
25727 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
25728 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
25729 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
25730 try to be a bit more fair.
25731 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
25732 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
25733 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
25734 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
25735 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
25736 bug that let it go negative.
25737 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
25738 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
25739 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
25740 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
25741 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
25742 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
25743 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
25744 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
25745 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
25746 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
25747 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
25750 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
25752 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
25753 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
25754 service descriptors.
25757 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
25758 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
25759 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
25760 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
25762 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
25763 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
25764 versions *are* still recommended.
25765 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
25766 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
25767 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
25768 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
25769 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
25770 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
25771 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
25772 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
25774 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
25775 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
25776 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
25777 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
25778 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
25779 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
25780 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
25781 on it. Not used by clients yet.
25782 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
25783 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
25784 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
25785 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
25786 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
25787 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
25788 established a circuit.
25789 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
25790 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
25791 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
25792 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
25795 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
25796 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
25797 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
25798 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
25799 quickly enough. Oops.
25800 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
25802 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25803 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
25806 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
25807 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
25808 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
25809 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
25810 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
25811 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
25812 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
25813 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
25814 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
25815 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
25816 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
25817 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
25818 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
25819 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
25820 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
25821 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
25822 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
25825 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
25826 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
25827 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
25828 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
25829 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
25830 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
25831 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
25832 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
25833 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
25834 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
25835 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
25836 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
25837 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
25838 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
25839 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
25840 connections more reliable.
25843 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
25844 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
25845 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
25846 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
25847 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
25848 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
25849 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
25850 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
25851 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
25852 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
25853 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
25854 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
25855 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
25856 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
25860 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
25861 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
25862 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
25863 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
25864 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
25865 need to be uint64_t's.
25866 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
25867 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
25868 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
25870 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
25872 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
25873 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
25874 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
25875 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
25876 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
25877 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
25878 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
25880 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
25881 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
25882 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
25883 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
25884 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
25885 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
25886 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
25887 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
25888 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
25889 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
25890 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
25891 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
25892 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
25895 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
25896 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
25897 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
25898 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
25899 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
25900 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
25901 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
25903 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
25904 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
25905 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
25906 can answer v2 directory requests too.
25907 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
25908 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
25909 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
25910 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
25912 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
25913 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
25914 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
25915 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
25916 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
25917 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
25918 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
25919 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
25920 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
25921 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
25922 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
25923 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
25924 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
25925 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
25926 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
25928 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
25929 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
25932 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
25933 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25934 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
25935 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
25936 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
25937 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
25938 too -- so detect and avoid this.
25939 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
25941 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
25942 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
25943 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
25944 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
25945 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
25946 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
25947 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
25948 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
25949 rendezvous circuits.
25950 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
25952 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25953 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
25954 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
25955 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
25956 advertising it because of hibernation.
25957 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
25958 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
25959 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
25960 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
25961 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
25962 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
25963 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
25964 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
25965 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
25966 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
25967 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
25968 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
25969 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
25970 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
25973 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
25974 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25975 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
25976 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
25977 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
25978 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
25979 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
25980 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
25981 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
25982 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
25983 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
25984 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
25985 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
25986 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
25987 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
25988 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
25989 connections once a week.
25990 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
25991 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
25992 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
25993 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
25994 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
25995 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
25997 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
25998 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
25999 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
26001 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26002 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
26003 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
26004 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
26005 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
26006 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
26007 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
26008 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
26009 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
26010 firewall options forbid.
26011 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
26012 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
26013 can only proxy to certain destinations.
26014 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
26015 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
26016 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
26017 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
26018 aids some statistical attacks.
26019 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
26020 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
26021 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
26022 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
26024 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
26025 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
26026 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
26027 server descriptor sometimes.
26028 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
26029 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
26030 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
26031 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
26032 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
26033 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
26034 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
26035 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
26037 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
26038 case the controller wants to change that too.
26039 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
26040 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
26041 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
26042 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
26044 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
26045 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
26046 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
26048 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
26049 descriptors that they know they will reject.
26051 o Features and updates:
26052 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
26053 significantly faster.
26054 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
26055 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
26056 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
26057 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
26058 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
26059 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
26060 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
26061 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
26062 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
26063 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
26064 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
26065 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
26066 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
26067 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
26068 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
26069 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
26070 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
26071 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
26072 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
26073 as authoritative dirserver.
26074 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
26075 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
26076 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
26079 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
26080 o Usability improvements:
26081 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
26082 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
26084 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
26085 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
26086 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
26088 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
26089 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
26090 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
26091 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
26092 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
26093 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
26094 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
26095 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
26096 memory leaks better.
26097 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
26098 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
26099 their operators to pay close attention.
26100 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
26101 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
26103 o Performance improvements:
26104 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
26105 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
26106 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
26107 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
26108 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
26109 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
26110 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
26111 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
26112 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
26113 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
26114 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
26115 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
26116 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
26117 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
26118 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
26119 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
26120 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
26122 o Security improvements:
26123 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
26124 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
26125 fingerprint of server.
26126 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
26127 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
26128 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
26130 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26131 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
26132 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
26133 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
26134 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
26135 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
26136 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
26137 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
26138 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
26139 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
26140 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
26141 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
26142 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
26143 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
26144 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
26145 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
26146 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
26147 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
26148 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
26149 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
26150 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
26152 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
26153 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
26154 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
26156 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
26157 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
26159 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
26160 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
26161 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
26162 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
26163 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
26164 of the controller protocol.
26165 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
26166 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
26167 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
26170 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
26171 o New features (major):
26172 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
26173 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
26174 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
26175 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
26176 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
26177 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
26178 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
26179 we're using a default DirPort.
26180 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
26182 o New features (minor):
26183 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
26184 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
26185 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
26186 mirrors still cache and serve it).
26187 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
26188 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
26189 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
26190 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
26191 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
26192 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
26193 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
26194 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
26195 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
26196 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
26197 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
26198 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
26199 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
26200 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
26201 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
26203 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
26204 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
26205 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
26206 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
26207 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
26208 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
26209 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
26210 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
26212 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
26213 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
26214 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
26215 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
26216 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
26217 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
26218 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
26219 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
26220 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
26221 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
26223 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
26224 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
26225 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
26226 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
26227 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
26229 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
26230 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
26231 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
26233 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
26234 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
26236 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
26237 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
26238 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
26239 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
26240 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
26241 don't warn twice about the same name.
26242 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
26243 if we've not heard of the server.
26244 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
26245 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
26248 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
26249 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26250 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
26251 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
26252 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
26253 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
26254 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
26255 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
26256 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
26257 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
26258 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
26259 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
26260 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
26261 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
26262 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
26265 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
26266 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
26267 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
26268 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
26269 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
26271 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
26272 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
26273 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
26274 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
26275 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
26276 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
26280 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
26281 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
26282 nickname) is reachable by you.
26283 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
26286 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
26287 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
26288 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
26289 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
26290 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
26291 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
26292 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
26293 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
26294 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
26295 we fail to connect).
26296 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
26297 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
26298 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
26299 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
26301 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
26302 it was self-testing that told us so.
26305 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
26306 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
26307 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
26308 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
26309 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
26310 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
26311 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
26312 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
26313 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
26314 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
26315 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
26316 exit policy using him for any exits.
26317 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
26320 o New controller features/fixes:
26321 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
26322 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
26323 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
26324 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
26325 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
26326 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
26327 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
26328 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
26329 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
26331 o Start on the new directory design:
26332 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
26333 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
26335 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
26336 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
26337 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
26338 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
26340 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
26341 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
26342 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
26343 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
26344 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
26345 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
26346 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
26347 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
26350 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
26351 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
26352 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
26353 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
26354 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
26355 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
26356 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
26357 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
26358 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
26359 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
26361 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
26362 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
26363 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
26364 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
26365 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
26366 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
26367 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
26368 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
26369 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
26371 o Config option changes:
26372 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
26373 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
26374 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
26375 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
26376 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
26377 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
26379 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
26380 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
26381 people have started using them for spam too.
26382 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
26383 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
26384 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
26385 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
26386 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
26387 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
26388 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
26389 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
26390 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
26391 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
26392 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
26393 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
26394 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
26395 services faster on the service end.
26396 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
26397 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
26398 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
26399 it a fair shake next time we try.
26400 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
26401 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
26402 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
26403 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
26404 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
26405 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
26406 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
26407 able to discover them.
26408 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
26409 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
26410 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
26411 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
26412 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
26413 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
26414 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
26415 testing for reachability.
26416 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
26417 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
26419 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
26421 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
26422 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
26425 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
26426 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
26428 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26429 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
26430 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
26431 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
26434 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
26435 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26436 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
26438 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
26439 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
26442 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
26443 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
26446 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
26447 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
26448 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
26449 options, getinfo keys.
26452 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
26453 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26454 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
26455 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
26456 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
26457 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
26458 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
26460 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
26461 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
26465 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
26466 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
26467 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
26469 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
26471 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
26472 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
26473 circuit events and we go offline.
26474 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
26475 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
26476 you don't have enough intro points already.
26478 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
26479 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
26480 many bytes we've used in this time period.
26481 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
26482 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
26483 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
26484 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
26485 enabled by default yet.
26487 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
26488 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
26489 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
26490 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
26491 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
26494 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
26495 o New directory servers:
26496 - tor26 has changed IP address.
26498 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26499 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
26500 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
26501 pthreads libraries.
26502 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
26503 claims its dirport is 0.
26504 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
26505 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
26509 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
26510 o New directory servers:
26511 - tor26 has changed IP address.
26513 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
26514 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
26516 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
26517 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
26518 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
26519 ports that have changed.
26520 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
26522 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
26523 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
26524 Windows-style errno back.
26525 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
26527 want to make it an NT service.
26528 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
26529 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
26530 name, give the full name in our response.
26531 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
26532 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
26533 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
26534 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
26535 pthreads libraries.
26537 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
26538 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
26542 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
26543 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
26544 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
26545 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
26546 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
26549 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
26550 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26551 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
26552 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
26553 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
26554 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
26555 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
26556 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
26559 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
26561 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
26562 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
26563 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
26564 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
26565 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
26566 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
26568 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
26569 temporarily unreachable.
26570 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
26574 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
26575 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
26576 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
26577 our protocol works.
26578 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
26582 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
26583 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
26584 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
26585 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
26586 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
26590 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
26591 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
26592 libevent before 1.1a.
26595 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
26597 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
26598 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
26599 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
26600 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
26601 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
26603 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
26604 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
26605 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
26606 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
26607 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
26608 of CPU time plus memory.
26609 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
26610 normal web requests.
26611 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
26612 tor_lookup_hostname().
26613 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
26614 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
26615 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
26616 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
26617 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
26618 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
26620 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
26621 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
26622 HttpProxyAuthenticator
26623 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
26624 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
26625 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
26627 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
26628 the user asks you to.
26629 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
26630 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
26631 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
26632 their descriptors are being rejected.
26633 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
26637 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
26639 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
26640 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
26641 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
26643 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
26645 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
26647 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
26648 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
26649 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
26650 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
26651 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
26652 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
26653 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
26654 keys) from the exit server's process.
26655 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
26656 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
26657 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
26658 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
26659 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
26660 point at your Tor server.
26661 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
26662 you're not sending a socks reply back.
26665 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
26666 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
26667 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
26668 to make it easier to write controllers.
26671 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
26673 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
26674 installing on Tiger.
26675 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
26676 complain during installation.
26677 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
26678 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
26679 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
26680 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
26681 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
26682 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
26684 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
26685 something more reasonable when first installing.
26686 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
26689 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
26691 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
26692 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
26694 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
26695 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
26696 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
26697 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
26698 when using the default exit policy.
26699 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
26700 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
26701 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
26702 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
26703 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
26704 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
26705 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
26706 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
26707 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
26708 we fetched a new directory.
26709 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
26710 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
26713 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
26714 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
26715 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
26716 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
26717 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
26718 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
26719 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
26720 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
26722 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
26723 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
26724 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
26725 save memory on systems that need to fork.
26726 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
26727 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
26728 is valid without actually launching Tor.
26729 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
26730 rather than just rejecting it.
26733 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
26735 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
26736 we didn't like its cert.
26738 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
26739 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
26740 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
26741 on patch from Adam Langley.
26742 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
26743 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
26744 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
26745 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
26747 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
26748 directory every time you regenerate it.
26749 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
26750 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
26753 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
26754 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
26755 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
26756 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
26757 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
26760 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
26762 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
26763 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
26764 TLS errors better in other situations too.
26765 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
26766 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
26767 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
26768 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
26769 and don't log when you are.
26770 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
26771 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
26773 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
26774 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
26775 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
26776 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
26777 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
26780 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
26781 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
26782 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
26783 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
26784 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
26785 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
26786 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
26787 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
26788 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
26789 nickname+key are allowed.
26790 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
26791 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
26792 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
26793 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
26794 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
26795 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
26796 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
26797 have quite wrong clocks).
26798 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
26799 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
26800 - Efficiency improvements:
26801 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
26802 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
26803 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
26804 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
26805 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
26806 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
26807 lowercase and be done with it.
26808 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
26809 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
26810 to abandon partially built circuits.
26811 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
26812 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
26814 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
26816 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
26817 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
26818 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
26819 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
26821 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
26822 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
26824 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
26825 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
26826 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
26827 obeying the exit policy internally.
26828 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
26829 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
26831 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
26832 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
26833 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
26834 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
26836 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
26837 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
26838 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
26839 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
26840 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
26842 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
26843 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
26844 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
26845 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
26846 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
26847 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
26848 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
26849 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
26850 descriptors we just dropped.
26851 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
26852 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
26853 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
26854 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
26855 artificially capped at 500kB.
26858 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
26859 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
26860 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
26861 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
26862 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
26863 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
26864 busy for more than 100 seconds.
26867 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
26868 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
26869 - Fixes on reachability detection:
26870 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
26871 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
26872 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
26873 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
26874 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
26875 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
26876 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
26877 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
26878 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
26879 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
26880 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
26881 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
26882 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
26883 server not already connected to them.
26884 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
26885 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
26886 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
26888 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
26890 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
26891 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
26892 are in a different state than they actually are.
26893 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
26894 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
26895 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
26897 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
26898 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
26899 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
26901 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
26902 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
26903 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
26904 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
26905 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
26906 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
26907 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
26909 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
26910 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
26911 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
26912 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
26915 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
26916 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
26917 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
26918 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
26919 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
26920 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
26921 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
26922 creating actual system users.
26923 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
26924 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
26928 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
26930 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
26931 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
26932 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
26933 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
26934 hidden services better.
26935 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
26937 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
26938 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
26939 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
26940 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
26941 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
26942 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
26943 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
26944 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
26945 patch by Matt Edman).
26946 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
26947 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
26948 required exit node for certain sites.
26949 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
26950 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
26951 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
26952 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
26953 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
26954 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
26955 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
26956 rather than just "success" or "failure".
26957 - A more sane version numbering system. See
26958 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
26959 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
26960 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
26962 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
26963 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
26964 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
26965 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
26966 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
26967 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
26968 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
26970 o Robustness/stability fixes:
26971 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
26972 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
26973 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
26975 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
26976 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
26977 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
26979 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
26980 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
26981 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
26983 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
26984 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
26985 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
26986 that will want high uptime circuits.
26987 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
26988 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
26989 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
26990 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
26991 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
26992 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
26993 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
26994 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
26995 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
26996 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
26997 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
26998 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
26999 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
27000 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
27001 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
27002 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
27003 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
27004 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
27005 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
27006 when we try to launch one.
27007 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
27008 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
27009 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
27010 "ShutdownWaitLength".
27011 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
27012 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
27013 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
27014 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
27015 and to take errno into account where possible.
27018 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
27019 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
27020 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
27021 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
27022 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
27023 file more reasonable.
27024 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
27025 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
27026 addresses -- it won't.
27027 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
27028 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
27029 for google.com" problem.
27030 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
27031 so it's not just "unknown platform".
27032 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
27033 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
27034 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
27035 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
27037 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
27038 they could use instead.
27039 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
27040 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
27041 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
27042 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
27043 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
27044 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
27045 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
27046 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
27047 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
27049 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
27053 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
27054 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
27056 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
27057 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
27058 private-IP addresses.
27059 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
27060 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
27062 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
27063 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
27064 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
27065 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
27066 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
27067 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
27068 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
27070 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
27071 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
27072 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
27073 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
27074 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
27075 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
27076 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
27077 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
27079 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
27081 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
27082 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
27083 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
27084 whether the server is hibernating.
27087 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
27088 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
27089 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
27090 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
27091 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
27092 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
27093 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
27094 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
27095 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
27096 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
27097 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
27098 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
27099 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
27100 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
27101 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
27103 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
27104 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
27105 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
27106 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
27107 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
27108 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
27109 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
27110 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
27111 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
27112 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
27113 existing torrc files.
27114 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
27117 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
27118 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
27119 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
27120 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
27121 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
27122 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
27123 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
27124 the win32 SYSTEM account.
27125 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
27126 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
27127 file descriptors available.
27128 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
27129 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
27130 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
27133 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
27134 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
27135 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
27136 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
27138 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
27139 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
27140 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
27141 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
27142 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
27144 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
27145 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
27146 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
27147 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
27148 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
27149 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
27150 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
27151 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
27152 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
27153 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
27154 800kB/s of capacity.
27155 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
27158 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
27159 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
27160 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
27161 need as much processor time.
27162 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
27163 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
27164 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
27165 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
27166 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
27167 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
27168 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
27169 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
27170 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
27171 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
27172 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
27173 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
27175 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
27176 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
27177 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
27178 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
27179 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
27180 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
27181 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
27184 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
27185 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
27186 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
27188 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
27189 style address, then we'd crash.
27190 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
27191 a dirserver is broken.
27192 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
27194 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
27195 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
27196 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
27198 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
27199 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
27200 name out of the warning/assert messages.
27201 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
27202 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
27203 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
27205 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
27206 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
27207 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
27209 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
27211 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
27212 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
27213 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
27214 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
27215 values at once couldn't work.
27216 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
27217 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
27218 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
27219 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
27220 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
27221 they can handle any number of routers.
27222 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
27223 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
27224 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
27225 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
27226 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
27227 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
27228 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
27229 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
27230 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
27233 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
27234 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
27235 - Make hibernation actually work.
27236 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
27237 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
27238 don't use the stream status code.
27241 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
27243 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
27244 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
27246 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
27249 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
27250 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
27251 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
27252 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
27253 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
27254 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
27255 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
27256 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
27257 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
27258 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
27260 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
27261 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
27262 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
27263 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
27264 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
27265 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
27266 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
27267 - Make unit tests work on win32.
27270 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
27271 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
27272 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
27274 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
27275 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
27276 than just chopping them off.
27277 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
27279 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
27280 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
27281 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
27282 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
27283 right after sending the begin cell.
27284 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
27285 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
27286 exit nodes too. Oops.
27289 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
27290 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
27291 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
27292 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
27293 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
27294 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
27295 the user knows which one it's talking about.
27296 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
27297 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
27298 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
27301 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
27302 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
27303 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
27304 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
27306 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
27308 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
27309 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
27310 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
27312 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
27313 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
27314 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
27315 Clip rather than rejecting.
27316 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
27317 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
27320 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
27321 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
27322 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
27323 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
27325 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
27328 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
27329 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
27330 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
27331 win32 socket errors better.
27333 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
27334 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
27337 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
27338 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
27339 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
27340 so we don't see those messages days later.
27342 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
27343 - Make tor-resolve work again.
27344 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
27345 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
27348 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
27349 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
27350 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
27351 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
27353 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
27354 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
27355 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
27358 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
27359 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
27360 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
27361 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
27362 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
27363 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
27364 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
27365 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
27366 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
27368 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
27369 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
27370 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
27371 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
27373 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
27374 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
27377 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
27378 hibernation properties by
27379 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
27380 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
27381 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
27382 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
27383 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
27384 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
27385 get back to normal.)
27386 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
27388 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
27389 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
27390 to fill the last cell completely.
27391 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
27394 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
27395 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
27396 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
27397 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
27398 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
27399 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
27400 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
27401 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
27402 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
27403 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
27404 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
27406 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
27407 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
27408 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
27409 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
27410 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
27411 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
27412 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
27413 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
27415 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
27416 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
27417 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
27418 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
27419 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
27420 have it on start-up.
27423 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
27424 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
27425 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
27426 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
27427 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
27428 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
27429 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
27430 configuration to torrc.
27431 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
27432 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
27433 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
27434 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
27435 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
27437 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
27438 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
27439 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
27440 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
27441 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
27442 log more informatively.
27443 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
27444 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
27445 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
27446 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
27447 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
27448 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
27449 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
27450 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
27451 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
27452 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
27453 from each other, to hinder linkability.
27456 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
27457 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
27458 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
27459 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
27460 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
27461 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
27462 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
27464 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
27465 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
27466 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
27467 they ran out of file descriptors.
27468 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
27469 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
27470 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
27471 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
27472 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
27473 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
27474 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
27476 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
27479 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
27480 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
27481 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
27482 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
27483 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
27484 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
27485 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
27486 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
27487 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
27488 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
27489 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
27490 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
27491 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
27492 with the control port.
27493 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
27494 use in authenticating to the control interface.
27495 - New log format in config:
27496 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
27497 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
27500 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
27501 from their dirserver.
27502 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
27504 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
27505 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
27506 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
27507 them act more like real nodes.
27508 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
27509 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
27511 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
27512 nickname to its identity key.
27513 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
27514 not on the command line.
27515 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
27516 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
27517 1024) file descriptors.
27519 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
27520 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
27522 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
27523 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
27524 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
27527 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
27528 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
27529 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
27530 exit policy, not reject *:*.
27531 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
27532 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
27533 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
27534 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
27535 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
27536 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
27537 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
27540 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
27541 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
27542 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
27543 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
27544 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
27545 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
27546 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
27549 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
27550 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
27551 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
27552 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
27553 the ones we find in directories.)
27554 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
27556 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
27557 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
27559 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
27560 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
27561 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
27563 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
27564 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
27565 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
27566 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
27568 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
27569 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
27570 any more exit policy lines.
27573 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
27574 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
27575 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
27576 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
27577 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
27578 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
27579 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
27580 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
27581 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
27582 will be able to get a directory.
27583 - Http proxy support
27584 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
27585 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
27586 be routed through this host.
27587 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
27588 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
27589 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
27590 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
27593 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
27595 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
27596 clients/servers with an open dirport.
27597 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
27598 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
27599 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
27600 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
27601 intermittent connections.
27602 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
27603 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
27605 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
27606 in reporting stats locally.
27607 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
27608 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
27609 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
27612 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
27614 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
27615 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
27618 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
27620 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
27621 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
27622 if you don't want it open.
27623 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
27624 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
27625 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
27626 intermittent connections.
27627 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
27629 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
27630 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
27631 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
27632 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
27633 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
27634 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
27635 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
27636 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
27637 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
27638 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
27639 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
27640 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
27641 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
27642 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
27643 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
27644 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
27647 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
27648 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
27649 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
27650 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
27651 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
27653 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
27655 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
27656 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
27657 specified in HTTP 1.0.
27658 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
27659 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
27660 than once per minute.
27661 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
27662 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
27665 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
27666 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
27669 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
27670 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
27671 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
27672 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
27675 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
27676 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
27678 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
27679 don't put it into the client dns cache.
27680 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
27681 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
27682 until we get our next directory.
27684 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
27685 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
27686 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
27687 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
27688 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
27689 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
27690 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
27691 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
27692 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
27693 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
27694 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
27696 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
27698 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
27699 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
27701 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
27702 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
27703 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
27705 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
27707 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
27708 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
27709 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
27710 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
27711 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
27712 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
27713 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
27714 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
27717 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
27718 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
27719 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
27720 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
27723 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
27724 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
27725 ask them to resolve the host "".
27728 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
27729 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
27730 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
27731 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
27732 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
27733 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
27734 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
27735 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
27736 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
27737 clients don't use this yet.)
27738 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
27739 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
27740 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
27741 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
27742 for pointing out this bug.)
27743 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
27744 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
27745 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
27746 kazaa, gnutella ports.
27747 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
27749 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
27750 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
27751 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
27752 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
27753 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
27754 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
27755 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
27756 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
27757 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
27758 wolf unpredictably.
27759 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
27760 that's still handshaking.
27761 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
27762 you'll choose it for your path.
27763 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
27764 end relay cell, etc.
27765 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
27766 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
27767 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
27770 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
27771 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
27773 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
27774 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
27775 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
27776 list to decide who's running or verified.
27777 - Bugfixes and features:
27778 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
27779 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
27780 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
27781 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
27782 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
27783 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
27785 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
27786 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
27787 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
27788 know you might want to get it verified.
27789 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
27792 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
27794 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
27795 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
27796 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
27797 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
27799 o Protocol changes:
27800 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
27801 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
27802 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
27803 hadn't heard of before.
27806 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
27807 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
27808 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
27809 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
27810 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
27811 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
27812 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
27813 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
27814 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
27815 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
27816 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
27817 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
27818 - Directory caching.
27819 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
27820 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
27821 directory they've pulled down.
27822 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
27823 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
27824 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
27825 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
27826 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
27827 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
27828 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
27830 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
27831 This isn't used yet.
27832 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
27833 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
27834 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
27835 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
27836 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
27837 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
27838 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
27839 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
27840 - File and name management:
27841 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
27842 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
27844 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
27845 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
27846 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
27847 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
27848 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
27849 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
27850 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
27852 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
27853 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
27854 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
27855 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
27856 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
27858 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
27859 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
27860 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
27861 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
27862 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
27863 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
27864 - New docs in the tarball:
27866 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
27869 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
27870 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
27871 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
27874 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
27875 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
27876 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
27879 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
27880 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
27883 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
27884 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
27885 - Make it build on Win32 again.
27886 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
27887 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
27891 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
27893 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
27894 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
27895 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
27896 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
27897 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
27898 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
27899 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
27900 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
27901 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
27902 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
27905 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
27908 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
27909 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
27910 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
27911 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
27913 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
27914 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
27915 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
27917 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
27918 hidden service per 15-minute period.
27919 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
27920 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
27921 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
27922 o Fixes for security bugs:
27923 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
27924 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
27925 a trusted dirserver.
27927 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
27928 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
27929 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
27930 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
27931 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
27932 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
27933 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
27934 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
27935 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
27936 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
27938 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
27939 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
27940 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
27941 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
27943 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
27944 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
27945 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
27946 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
27947 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
27948 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
27949 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
27950 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
27951 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
27952 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
27953 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
27954 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
27955 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
27958 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
27959 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
27960 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
27961 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
27964 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
27965 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
27966 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
27967 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
27968 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
27969 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
27970 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
27974 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
27975 [version bump only]
27978 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
27979 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
27980 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
27981 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
27982 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
27984 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
27987 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
27988 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
27989 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
27990 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
27991 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
27992 o Better debugging for tls errors
27993 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
27994 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
27995 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
27996 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
27997 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
27998 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
27999 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
28000 o win32's close can't close a socket.
28003 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
28004 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
28005 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
28006 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
28007 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
28008 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
28009 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
28010 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
28011 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
28012 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
28013 just close the circ.
28014 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
28015 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
28016 (this was quite rare).
28019 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
28020 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
28021 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
28022 if you decrypted them correctly.
28023 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
28024 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
28025 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
28028 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
28029 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
28030 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
28031 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
28032 a second one and it works.
28033 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
28034 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
28035 alice would just have to wait to time out.
28036 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
28037 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
28038 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
28039 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
28040 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
28041 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
28042 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
28043 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
28044 i'd still like to find the bug though.
28045 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
28047 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
28051 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
28052 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
28053 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
28054 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
28055 he retries a couple of times
28056 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
28057 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
28058 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
28059 too long (they were sticking around forever).
28060 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
28064 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
28065 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
28066 - make hup work again
28067 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
28068 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
28069 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
28070 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
28071 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
28072 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
28074 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
28075 o changes from 0.0.5:
28076 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
28077 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
28078 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
28079 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
28080 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
28082 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
28083 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
28084 in-memory directories too
28087 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
28088 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
28091 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
28093 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
28094 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
28095 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
28096 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
28099 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
28100 [version bump only]
28103 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
28104 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
28106 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
28107 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
28108 but that aren't warnings
28111 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
28112 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
28113 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
28114 the dns farm to do it.
28115 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
28116 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
28118 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
28119 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
28120 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
28123 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
28124 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
28125 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
28126 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
28127 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
28128 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
28129 expect it to have a nickname.
28130 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
28131 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
28134 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
28135 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
28139 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
28140 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
28141 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
28142 - include missing header fcntl.h
28143 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
28144 - deal with hardware word alignment
28145 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
28146 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
28147 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
28148 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
28149 by kill -USR1 currently.
28150 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
28151 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
28152 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
28155 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
28156 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
28157 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
28160 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
28162 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
28163 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
28164 - And fix a few endian issues.
28167 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
28169 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
28170 try that circuit again: try a new one.
28171 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
28172 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
28173 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
28174 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
28175 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
28176 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
28178 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
28179 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
28180 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
28182 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
28184 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
28185 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
28186 side isn't reading right then.
28187 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
28188 RecommendedVersions
28189 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
28190 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
28191 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
28194 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
28196 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
28197 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
28200 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
28204 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
28206 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
28207 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
28208 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
28209 connection is finished.
28210 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
28211 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
28212 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
28213 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
28214 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
28215 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
28216 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
28217 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
28218 rather than warn and continue.
28219 - Make --version work
28220 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
28223 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
28225 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
28226 knows it's working.
28227 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
28228 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
28230 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
28231 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
28232 so you can collect coredumps there.
28234 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
28235 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
28236 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
28237 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
28238 dns cache actually gets populated.
28239 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
28240 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
28241 end cell down it first.
28242 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
28243 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
28246 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
28248 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
28249 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
28251 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
28252 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
28253 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
28254 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
28255 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
28256 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
28258 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
28260 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
28261 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
28262 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
28263 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
28264 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
28265 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
28267 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
28268 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
28271 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
28273 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
28274 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
28275 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
28276 tor. It even has a man page.
28277 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
28278 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
28279 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
28280 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
28282 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
28284 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
28287 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
28289 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
28290 it, apt-getters. :)
28291 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
28292 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
28293 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
28294 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
28295 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
28296 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
28297 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
28298 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
28299 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
28300 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
28301 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
28303 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
28304 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
28307 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
28309 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
28310 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
28313 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
28315 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
28316 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
28317 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
28318 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
28319 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
28320 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
28321 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
28322 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
28323 logfile so you know it's working.
28324 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
28325 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
28328 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
28330 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
28331 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
28332 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
28335 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
28337 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
28338 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
28339 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
28342 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
28343 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
28344 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
28346 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
28347 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
28349 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
28350 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
28351 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
28353 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
28354 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
28358 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
28360 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
28361 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
28362 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
28365 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
28366 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
28367 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
28368 - Add port ranges to exit policies
28369 - Add a conservative default exit policy
28370 - Warn if you're running tor as root
28371 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
28372 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
28373 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
28374 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
28376 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
28379 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
28380 o Robustness and bugfixes:
28381 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
28382 really screw things up.
28383 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
28385 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
28386 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
28388 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
28389 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
28390 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
28391 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
28392 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
28393 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
28396 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
28399 - Change default loglevel to warn.
28400 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
28401 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
28403 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
28406 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
28407 o Robustness and bugfixes:
28408 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
28409 - to get ownership/permissions right
28410 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
28411 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
28412 pull down a directory again
28413 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
28414 causing server crashes
28415 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
28416 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
28417 - exit if bind() fails
28418 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
28419 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
28420 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
28421 - fix minor bias in PRNG
28422 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
28425 - Wrote the design document (woo)
28427 o Circuit building and exit policies:
28428 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
28430 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
28431 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
28432 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
28433 exists, rather than failing
28434 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
28435 which AP connections are standing by
28436 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
28437 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
28438 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
28440 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
28441 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
28444 - APPort is now called SocksPort
28445 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
28447 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
28448 hardcoded (for dirservers)
28449 - Reloads config on HUP
28450 - Usage info on -h or --help
28451 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
28454 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
28455 o General stability:
28456 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
28457 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
28458 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
28459 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
28460 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
28461 to take down the network when I approve a new router
28462 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
28465 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
28466 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
28468 o Autoconf improvements:
28469 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
28470 - Make install now works
28471 - create var/lib/tor on make install
28472 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
28473 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
28475 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
28476 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
28477 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
28478 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup