1 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
3 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
4 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
5 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
6 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
8 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
9 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
10 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
11 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
12 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
13 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
14 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
15 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
16 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
17 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
18 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
19 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
20 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
22 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
23 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
26 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
27 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
28 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
29 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
30 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
31 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
33 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
34 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
35 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
36 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
37 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
39 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
42 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
43 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
45 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
46 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
47 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
48 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
49 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
50 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
52 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
53 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
54 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
55 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
56 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
57 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
58 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
59 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
60 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
61 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
62 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
63 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
67 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
68 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
69 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
72 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
73 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
74 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
76 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
77 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
78 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
79 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
80 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
81 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
82 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
83 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
84 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
85 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
86 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
87 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
88 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
89 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
90 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
91 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
92 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
93 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
94 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
95 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
96 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
97 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
98 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
99 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
100 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
101 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
103 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
104 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
105 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
106 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
107 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
108 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
109 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
110 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
111 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
112 of 0. Suggested by lark.
114 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
115 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
116 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
117 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
118 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
121 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
123 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
124 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
125 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
126 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
129 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
130 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
131 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
132 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
133 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
135 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
136 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
137 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
138 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
141 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
142 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
143 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
144 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
145 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
146 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
147 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
148 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
151 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
152 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
153 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
154 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
157 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
158 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
159 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
160 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
161 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
162 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
165 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
166 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
167 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
168 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
169 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
170 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
173 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
174 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
175 reported by Matt Edman.
176 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
178 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
179 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
180 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
181 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
183 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
184 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
185 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
186 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
187 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
188 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
189 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
190 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
191 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
192 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
193 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
194 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
195 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
196 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
197 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
198 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
199 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
200 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
201 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
204 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
205 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
206 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
207 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
210 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
211 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
212 the letter of C99's alias rules.
215 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
216 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
217 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
218 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
220 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
221 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
222 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
225 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
226 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
229 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
230 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
231 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
232 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
233 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
235 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
236 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
237 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
238 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
239 identify a connection.
240 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
241 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
242 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
243 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
244 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
245 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
246 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
247 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
248 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
249 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
251 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
252 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
253 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
254 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
255 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
256 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
257 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
260 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
261 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
263 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
264 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
265 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
266 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
267 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
268 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
269 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
270 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
272 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
273 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
274 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
275 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
276 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
277 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
278 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
279 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
280 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
281 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
282 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
283 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
284 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
285 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
286 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
287 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
288 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
289 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
290 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
291 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
292 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
293 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
294 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
295 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
296 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
297 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
298 840. Patch from rovv.
299 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
300 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
301 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
303 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
304 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
305 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
306 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
307 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
308 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
309 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
311 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
312 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
313 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
316 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
317 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
319 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
320 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
321 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
322 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
323 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
324 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
325 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
326 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
327 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
329 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
331 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
332 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
336 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
337 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
338 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
339 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
340 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
341 have had some time to upgrade.)
344 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
345 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
348 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
349 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
350 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
351 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
352 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
355 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
356 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
358 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
359 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
360 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
361 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
362 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
363 entirely. Patch from coderman.
366 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
367 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
368 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
369 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
370 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
371 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
372 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
376 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
377 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
378 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
379 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
380 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
381 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
382 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
385 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
386 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
387 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
388 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
389 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
391 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
392 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
393 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
394 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
395 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
396 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
397 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
398 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
399 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
400 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
404 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
405 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
406 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
408 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
409 without support for deprecated functions.
410 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
412 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
413 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
414 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
415 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
416 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
417 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
418 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
419 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
420 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
421 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
422 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
423 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
424 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
425 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
426 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
427 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
428 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
429 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
430 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
431 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
432 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
433 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
434 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
436 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
437 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
438 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
439 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
440 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
441 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
443 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
444 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
445 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
446 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
447 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
449 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
450 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
451 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
453 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
454 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
457 o Deprecated and removed features:
458 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
459 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
460 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
463 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
464 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
465 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
466 with log.h on Android.
467 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
468 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
471 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
472 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
474 o New directory authorities:
475 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
479 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
480 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
481 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
482 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
483 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
484 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
487 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
488 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
489 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
490 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
491 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
492 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
493 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
494 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
496 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
497 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
498 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
499 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
502 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
503 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
505 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
506 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
507 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
508 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
509 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
510 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
511 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
512 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
513 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
514 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
515 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
516 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
517 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
518 Implements proposal 148.
519 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
520 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
521 system to do it for us.
522 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
523 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
524 this fix will be slightly helpful.
525 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
526 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
527 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
528 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
529 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
530 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
531 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
532 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
533 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
536 o Minor features (controller):
537 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
538 been fetched and validated.
539 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
540 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
541 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
542 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
543 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
544 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
547 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
548 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
549 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
550 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
551 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
553 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
554 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
555 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
556 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
557 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
558 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
559 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
560 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
561 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
563 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
564 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
565 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
566 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
567 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
568 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
569 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
570 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
572 o Deprecated and removed features:
573 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
575 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
576 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
577 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
579 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
580 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
581 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
583 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
584 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
585 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
586 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
587 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
588 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
591 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
592 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
593 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
594 fixes a variety of other issues.
597 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
598 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
599 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
600 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
603 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
604 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
605 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
606 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
609 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
610 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
611 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
615 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
617 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
618 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
619 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
620 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
621 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
622 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
623 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
625 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
626 rest, and don't automatically fail.
627 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
628 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
629 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
630 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
632 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
633 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
634 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
635 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
636 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
637 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
638 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
639 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
640 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
641 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
643 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
647 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
648 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
649 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
651 o Minor features (controller):
652 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
656 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
657 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
658 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
659 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
660 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
661 variety of other issues.
664 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
665 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
666 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
667 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
668 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
669 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
670 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
671 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
672 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
673 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
674 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
675 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
678 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
679 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
681 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
682 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
683 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
684 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
685 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
686 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
687 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
688 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
689 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
690 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
691 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
692 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
693 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
694 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
695 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
699 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
700 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
701 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
702 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
703 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
704 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
705 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
706 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
707 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
708 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
709 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
710 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
711 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
712 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
713 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
714 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
715 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
716 list. It has been gone for many months.
717 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
718 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
719 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
722 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
723 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
724 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
727 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
728 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
729 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
730 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
731 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
732 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
733 variety of other issues.
736 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
737 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
738 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
739 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
740 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
741 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
742 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
743 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
744 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
745 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
746 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
747 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
748 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
749 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
752 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
753 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
754 Suggested by Lucky Green.
755 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
756 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
757 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
758 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
759 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
760 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
762 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
763 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
765 o Hidden service performance improvements:
766 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
767 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
768 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
769 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
770 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
771 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
772 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
773 faster after restart.
776 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
777 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
778 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
779 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
780 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
781 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
782 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
783 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
784 840. Patch from rovv.
785 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
786 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
787 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
788 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
789 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
790 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
791 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
792 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
793 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
795 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
796 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
797 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
798 have already been marked for close.
799 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
801 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
802 memory performance during directory parsing.
803 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
804 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
805 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
806 because of a pending download.
809 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
810 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
811 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
812 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
815 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
816 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
817 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
818 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
819 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
820 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
821 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
822 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
823 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
824 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
825 lookups more reliable.
826 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
827 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
828 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
829 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
830 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
831 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
832 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
835 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
836 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
837 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
838 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
839 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
840 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
841 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
842 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
843 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
844 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
845 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
847 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
848 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
849 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
850 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
851 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
852 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
853 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
854 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
855 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
858 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
859 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
860 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
861 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
862 locked down these days.
863 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
864 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
865 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
866 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
867 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
869 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
870 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
871 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
872 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
873 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
874 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
875 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
876 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
877 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
878 people find host:port too confusing.
879 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
880 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
881 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
884 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
886 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
887 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
888 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
889 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
890 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
892 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
893 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
894 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
895 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
896 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
897 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
898 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
899 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
900 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
901 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
902 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
903 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
905 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
906 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
907 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
908 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
909 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
910 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
911 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
912 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
913 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
915 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
916 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
917 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
918 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
919 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
920 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
921 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
922 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
923 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
924 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
925 bug 820, reported by seeess.
926 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
927 list. It has been gone for many months.
929 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
930 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
931 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
932 actual mistakes we're making here.
933 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
934 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
935 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
936 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
939 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
940 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
941 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
942 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
945 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
946 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
947 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
948 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
949 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
950 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
952 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
953 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
954 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
958 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
959 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
960 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
961 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
962 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
963 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
964 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
965 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
966 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
967 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
968 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
969 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
970 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
971 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
972 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
973 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
974 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
975 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
976 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
977 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
978 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
981 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
982 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
983 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
984 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
985 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
986 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
987 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
990 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
992 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
993 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
994 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
995 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
996 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
997 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
998 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
1000 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
1001 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
1002 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
1003 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
1004 known descriptor before building circuits.
1006 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
1007 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
1008 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
1009 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
1010 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
1011 identify a connection.
1012 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
1013 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
1014 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
1016 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
1017 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
1018 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
1019 pointed out by rovv.
1022 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
1023 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1024 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
1025 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
1026 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
1027 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
1028 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
1029 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
1030 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
1031 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
1032 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
1033 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
1034 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
1035 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
1036 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1039 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
1040 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
1041 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
1042 answer sections match.
1043 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
1044 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
1047 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
1048 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
1051 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
1052 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
1053 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
1055 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
1056 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
1057 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
1060 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
1061 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
1062 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
1063 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
1067 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
1068 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
1071 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
1072 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
1073 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
1074 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
1075 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
1076 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
1078 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
1079 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
1080 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
1083 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
1084 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
1085 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
1086 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
1087 be sent using an "early" cell.
1090 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
1091 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
1092 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
1093 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
1094 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
1095 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
1096 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
1099 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
1100 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
1101 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
1102 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
1103 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
1104 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
1105 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
1106 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
1107 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
1108 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
1109 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
1110 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
1111 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
1112 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
1113 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
1114 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
1117 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
1118 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
1119 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
1120 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
1121 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
1122 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
1123 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
1124 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
1125 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
1127 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
1128 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
1129 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
1130 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
1131 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
1134 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1135 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
1136 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
1137 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
1140 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
1141 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
1145 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
1147 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
1148 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
1149 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
1152 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
1153 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
1154 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
1157 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
1158 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
1159 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
1160 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
1161 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1162 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
1163 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
1164 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
1165 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1166 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
1167 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
1168 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
1169 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
1170 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
1171 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
1172 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
1173 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
1174 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
1175 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
1176 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
1177 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
1178 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
1179 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
1182 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
1183 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
1185 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
1186 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
1187 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
1188 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
1189 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
1190 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
1191 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
1193 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
1194 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
1195 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
1196 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
1197 found by Geoff Goodell.
1200 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
1201 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
1202 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
1203 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
1204 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
1205 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
1208 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
1209 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
1210 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
1213 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
1214 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
1215 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
1216 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
1217 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1218 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
1219 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
1220 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
1221 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1222 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
1223 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
1224 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
1225 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
1226 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
1229 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
1230 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
1231 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
1233 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
1234 fingerprints with or without space.
1235 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
1236 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
1237 partway through and wants to catch up.
1238 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
1239 state to start out in.
1242 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
1243 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
1244 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
1245 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
1246 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
1249 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
1250 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
1251 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
1252 some of the connection attempts fail.
1253 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
1254 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
1255 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
1256 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
1257 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
1258 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
1260 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
1261 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
1262 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
1265 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
1266 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
1267 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
1268 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
1269 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
1270 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
1271 and adds a variety of smaller features.
1274 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
1275 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
1276 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
1277 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
1279 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
1280 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
1281 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
1282 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
1284 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
1285 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
1286 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
1287 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
1288 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
1289 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
1290 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
1293 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
1294 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
1295 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
1296 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
1297 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
1299 o Memory fixes and improvements:
1300 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
1301 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
1302 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
1303 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
1304 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
1305 on a typical directory cache.
1306 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
1307 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
1308 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
1309 and may reduce fragmentation.
1310 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
1311 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
1312 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
1314 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
1315 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
1316 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
1318 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
1319 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
1323 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
1324 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
1325 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
1326 done that for a long time.
1327 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
1328 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
1329 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
1330 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
1333 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
1334 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
1335 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
1336 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
1337 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
1338 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
1340 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
1341 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
1342 output to messages of warning and error severity.
1343 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
1344 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
1345 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
1346 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
1347 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
1348 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
1349 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
1350 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
1351 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
1352 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
1353 directory requests we should expect to see.
1354 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
1356 - Lots of new unit tests.
1357 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
1358 two parallel lists in lockstep.
1361 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
1362 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
1363 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
1366 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
1367 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
1368 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
1369 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
1370 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
1371 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
1372 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
1375 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
1376 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
1377 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
1381 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
1382 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
1383 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
1386 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
1387 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
1388 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
1390 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
1391 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
1393 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
1394 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
1395 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
1396 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
1397 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1398 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
1399 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
1401 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
1402 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
1403 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
1404 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
1405 - Fix compile on Windows.
1408 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
1409 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
1410 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
1411 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
1412 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
1413 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
1414 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
1417 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
1418 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
1421 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
1422 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
1423 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
1424 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
1426 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
1427 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
1428 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
1431 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
1432 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
1433 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
1434 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
1438 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
1439 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
1440 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
1441 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
1443 o Major security fixes:
1444 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
1445 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
1446 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
1447 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
1448 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
1451 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
1452 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1455 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
1456 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
1459 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
1460 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
1463 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
1464 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
1465 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
1468 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
1469 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1472 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
1473 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
1474 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
1475 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
1476 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
1478 o New directory authorities:
1479 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
1480 it has been down for months.
1481 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
1485 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
1486 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
1488 o Minor features (security):
1489 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
1490 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
1491 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
1494 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
1495 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
1496 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
1497 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
1498 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
1499 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
1500 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
1501 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
1502 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
1504 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
1505 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
1506 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
1507 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
1508 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
1509 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
1510 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1511 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
1512 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
1514 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
1515 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
1516 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
1517 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
1518 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
1519 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
1520 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
1521 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
1522 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
1523 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
1524 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1525 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
1526 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
1527 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
1528 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
1529 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
1530 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
1531 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
1532 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
1535 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
1536 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
1537 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
1538 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
1541 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
1542 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
1543 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
1544 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
1547 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
1548 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
1549 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
1550 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
1551 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
1554 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
1555 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
1556 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
1557 certain censored countries by default again.
1560 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
1561 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1562 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
1563 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
1564 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1565 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
1566 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
1567 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
1569 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
1570 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
1571 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
1572 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
1573 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
1574 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
1575 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
1576 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
1577 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
1578 a directory. Fix from lodger.
1580 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
1581 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
1582 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
1583 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
1584 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
1585 RelayBandwidth* values.
1586 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
1587 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
1588 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
1589 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
1590 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
1591 get_interface_address6().
1592 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
1593 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
1594 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
1596 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
1597 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
1598 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
1599 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1600 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
1601 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
1602 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
1603 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
1604 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
1605 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1608 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
1609 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
1610 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
1613 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
1614 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
1615 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
1616 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
1617 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
1620 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
1621 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
1622 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
1623 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
1624 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
1625 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
1626 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
1627 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
1628 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
1631 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
1632 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
1633 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
1634 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1637 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
1638 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
1639 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
1640 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
1641 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
1642 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
1643 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
1646 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
1647 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
1648 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
1649 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
1650 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
1651 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
1652 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
1654 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
1655 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
1656 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
1657 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
1658 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
1661 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
1662 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
1664 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
1665 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
1666 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
1667 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1668 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
1669 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
1670 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
1671 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
1672 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
1673 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
1674 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
1675 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
1676 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1677 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
1678 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1679 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1680 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
1681 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
1682 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
1683 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
1684 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
1685 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
1686 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
1688 o Minor features (performance):
1689 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
1691 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
1692 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
1693 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
1694 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
1695 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
1696 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
1697 non-system include paths.
1698 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
1699 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
1702 o Minor features (other):
1703 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
1705 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
1706 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
1707 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
1710 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
1711 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
1712 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
1713 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
1715 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
1716 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
1717 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
1718 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
1720 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
1721 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
1722 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1723 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
1724 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1726 o Minor bugfixes (other):
1727 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
1728 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
1729 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
1730 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
1731 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
1732 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
1733 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
1734 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
1735 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
1736 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
1737 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
1738 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
1739 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
1740 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
1741 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1742 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
1743 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
1744 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
1745 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
1746 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
1747 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
1748 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
1749 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
1750 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
1753 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1754 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
1755 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
1759 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
1760 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
1761 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
1762 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
1763 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
1766 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
1767 Tor's x509 certificates.
1770 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
1771 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
1772 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1773 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
1774 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
1775 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1777 o Minor features (security):
1778 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
1779 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
1781 o Minor features (directory authority):
1782 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
1783 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
1784 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
1785 bandwidthburst values.
1787 o Minor features (controller):
1788 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
1789 processes from running us out of memory.
1791 o Minor features (misc):
1792 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
1793 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
1794 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
1795 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
1797 o Deprecated features (controller):
1798 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
1799 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
1800 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
1803 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
1804 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
1806 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
1807 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
1808 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1809 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
1810 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
1811 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1812 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
1813 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
1815 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
1816 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1817 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
1818 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1819 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
1820 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
1821 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
1822 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
1824 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
1825 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
1826 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
1827 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
1828 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1829 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
1830 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1831 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
1832 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1833 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
1834 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
1835 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1837 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1838 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
1840 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
1841 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
1842 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
1843 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
1844 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
1845 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
1848 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
1849 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
1850 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
1851 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
1852 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
1854 o New directory authorities:
1855 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
1859 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
1860 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
1861 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
1862 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
1863 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
1864 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
1865 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
1866 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
1870 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
1871 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
1872 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
1873 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
1874 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
1875 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
1876 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
1877 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
1878 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
1879 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
1882 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
1883 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
1884 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
1885 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
1889 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
1890 the request isn't encrypted.
1891 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
1892 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
1893 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
1894 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
1895 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
1898 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
1899 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
1902 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
1905 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
1906 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
1907 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
1909 o New directory authorities:
1910 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
1913 o Major performance improvements:
1914 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
1915 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
1916 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
1917 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
1918 memory fragmentation.
1921 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
1922 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
1923 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
1924 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
1925 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
1926 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
1927 bodies when they receive them.
1928 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
1929 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
1930 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
1932 o Minor performance improvements:
1933 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
1934 of them were actually distinct.
1935 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
1936 interested in a given message.
1939 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
1940 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
1941 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
1942 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
1943 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
1944 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
1945 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
1946 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
1947 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
1948 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
1949 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
1951 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
1952 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
1953 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
1954 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
1955 this country" and "1 person from this country".
1956 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
1957 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
1958 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
1959 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
1960 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
1962 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
1963 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
1964 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
1966 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
1967 but client versions are not.
1968 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
1969 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
1971 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
1972 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
1973 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
1974 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
1975 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
1977 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
1978 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
1979 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
1982 o Minor features (controller):
1983 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
1984 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
1985 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
1986 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
1988 o Minor features (directory authorities):
1989 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
1990 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
1991 running a test network on a single host.
1992 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
1993 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
1995 o Minor features (bridges):
1996 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
1997 unencrypted connections.
1999 o Minor features (other):
2000 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
2001 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
2002 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
2003 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
2006 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
2007 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
2008 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
2009 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
2012 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
2013 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
2014 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
2015 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
2019 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
2020 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
2021 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
2022 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
2023 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
2024 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
2025 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
2026 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
2027 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
2028 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
2029 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
2030 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
2033 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
2034 rebuild our server descriptor.
2035 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
2036 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
2037 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
2038 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
2039 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
2040 nonstandard integer types.
2041 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
2042 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
2043 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
2044 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
2045 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
2047 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
2048 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
2049 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
2050 when they receive them.
2051 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
2052 This includes some 64-bit systems.
2053 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
2054 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
2055 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
2056 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
2057 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
2058 router_get_by_hexdigest().
2059 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
2060 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
2064 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
2065 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
2066 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
2069 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
2070 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
2071 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
2072 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
2073 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
2074 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
2075 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
2076 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2079 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
2080 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
2081 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
2082 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
2084 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
2085 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
2088 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
2089 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
2092 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
2094 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
2095 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
2097 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
2098 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
2099 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
2100 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2101 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
2102 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
2103 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
2104 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
2105 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
2106 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
2110 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
2111 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
2112 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
2115 - Make the unit tests build again.
2116 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
2117 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
2118 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
2119 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
2120 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
2121 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2122 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
2123 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
2124 the next one as a duplicate.
2127 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
2128 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
2129 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
2130 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
2133 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
2134 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
2135 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
2138 o New directory authorities:
2139 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
2143 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
2144 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
2145 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
2146 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
2147 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
2148 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
2149 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
2151 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
2152 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
2154 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
2155 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
2156 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
2157 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
2158 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
2159 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
2161 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
2162 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
2163 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
2164 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
2165 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
2166 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2169 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
2170 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
2171 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
2172 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
2173 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
2174 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
2175 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
2176 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
2177 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
2178 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
2179 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
2180 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
2181 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
2182 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
2183 where Tor is blocked.
2184 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
2185 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
2186 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
2187 to a file periodically.
2188 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
2189 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
2190 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
2194 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
2195 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
2196 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
2197 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
2198 in the relevant networkstatus document.
2199 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
2200 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
2201 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
2202 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
2203 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
2204 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
2205 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
2207 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
2208 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
2209 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
2210 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
2211 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
2212 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2213 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
2214 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
2215 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
2216 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2217 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
2218 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
2219 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
2220 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2221 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
2222 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
2223 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
2224 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
2225 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
2226 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2227 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2228 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
2229 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2230 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
2231 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
2232 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
2233 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
2234 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2237 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
2238 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
2239 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
2240 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
2241 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
2242 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
2243 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
2244 even if your DirPort isn't on.
2245 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
2246 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
2247 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
2249 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
2250 multiple controller passwords.
2251 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
2252 router based on the router's purpose.
2253 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
2254 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
2255 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
2256 the approved-routers file.
2259 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
2260 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
2261 well as a few minor bugs.
2264 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
2265 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
2266 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
2268 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
2269 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
2270 rebuild our server descriptor.
2272 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
2273 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
2274 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
2275 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
2276 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
2277 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
2278 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
2279 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
2280 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
2281 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
2283 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
2284 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
2285 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
2286 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
2287 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
2288 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
2289 then be flexible about families.
2292 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
2293 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
2294 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
2298 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
2299 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
2300 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
2301 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
2302 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
2305 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
2306 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
2307 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
2308 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
2309 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2312 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
2313 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
2315 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
2316 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
2317 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
2318 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
2319 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
2320 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
2321 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
2323 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
2324 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
2325 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
2326 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
2329 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
2330 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
2333 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
2334 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
2335 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2338 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
2339 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
2340 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
2341 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
2342 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
2343 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
2344 addresses many more minor issues.
2346 o New directory authorities:
2347 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
2350 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
2351 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
2352 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
2353 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
2355 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
2356 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
2357 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
2358 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
2359 and are reaching it.
2360 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
2361 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
2362 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
2363 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
2364 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
2365 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
2368 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
2369 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
2371 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
2372 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
2373 no longer work for clients.
2374 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
2375 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
2377 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
2378 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
2379 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
2380 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
2381 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
2382 enough directory information to build a circuit.
2383 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
2384 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
2385 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
2386 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
2387 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
2388 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
2390 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
2391 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
2392 requests for all of them.
2393 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
2395 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
2396 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
2397 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
2400 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
2401 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
2405 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
2406 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
2407 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
2408 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
2409 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
2410 networkstatuses that we already have.
2411 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
2412 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
2413 we start knowing some directory caches.
2414 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
2415 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
2416 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
2417 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
2418 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
2419 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
2420 Good in combination with --hash-password.
2421 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
2422 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
2424 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
2425 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
2426 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
2428 o Minor features (bridges):
2429 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
2430 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
2431 back to trying the bridge directly.
2432 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
2433 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
2435 o Minor features (controller):
2436 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
2437 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
2438 report the value as a "minimum skew."
2441 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
2442 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
2446 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
2447 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
2448 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
2449 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
2450 reported by tup and ioerror.
2451 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
2452 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
2454 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
2455 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
2457 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
2458 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
2459 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
2461 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
2462 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2463 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
2464 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2465 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
2466 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2467 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
2469 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
2470 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
2471 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2473 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
2474 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
2475 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
2476 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
2477 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
2480 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
2481 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
2482 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
2483 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
2484 lists for a few hours each day.
2486 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
2487 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
2488 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
2489 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
2490 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
2491 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
2492 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
2493 rend_process_relay_cell().
2495 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
2496 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
2497 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
2498 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
2499 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
2500 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
2501 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
2502 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
2504 o Major bugfixes (other):
2505 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
2506 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
2507 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
2508 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
2509 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
2510 circuit cannibalization).
2511 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
2512 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
2513 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
2514 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
2515 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
2516 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
2519 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
2520 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
2522 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
2523 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
2524 absent. Resolves bug 467.
2525 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
2526 a way to trigger this remotely.)
2527 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
2528 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
2529 were reporting the dir port.)
2530 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
2531 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
2532 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
2533 the future. Fixes bug 434.
2534 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
2536 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
2537 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
2538 the onion key from getting rotated.
2539 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
2540 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
2541 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
2542 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
2543 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
2544 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
2545 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
2546 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
2547 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
2550 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
2551 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
2552 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
2553 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
2554 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
2555 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
2557 o Major features (directory system):
2558 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
2559 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
2560 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
2561 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
2562 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
2563 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
2564 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
2565 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
2566 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
2567 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
2568 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
2569 Partially implements proposal 122.
2570 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
2571 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
2574 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
2575 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
2576 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
2577 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
2579 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
2580 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
2581 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
2582 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
2583 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
2584 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2585 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
2586 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
2587 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2589 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
2590 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
2592 - Allow certificates to include an address.
2593 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
2594 and download operations.
2595 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
2596 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
2597 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
2598 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
2599 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
2600 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
2602 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
2603 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
2606 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
2607 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
2608 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
2609 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
2611 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
2612 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
2613 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
2615 o Minor features (performance):
2616 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
2617 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
2618 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
2619 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
2620 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
2621 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
2622 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
2625 o Minor features (compilation):
2626 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
2627 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
2629 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
2630 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
2631 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
2632 stick around indefinitely.
2633 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
2635 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
2636 v3 directory authority.
2637 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
2638 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
2640 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
2641 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
2642 "moria on moria:9031."
2643 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
2644 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
2645 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
2646 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
2647 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
2648 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
2649 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
2650 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
2652 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
2653 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
2654 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
2655 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
2656 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
2657 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
2658 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
2659 downloads than for other types.
2661 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
2662 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
2664 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
2665 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
2666 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2668 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2669 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
2670 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2671 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
2672 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
2673 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
2674 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
2675 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
2677 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
2678 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
2679 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
2680 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
2681 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
2682 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
2683 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
2684 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2685 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
2686 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
2687 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
2689 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
2690 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
2693 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2694 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
2695 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
2696 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
2697 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
2698 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
2699 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
2700 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
2701 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
2702 so that they all take the same named flags.
2705 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
2706 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
2707 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
2710 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
2711 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
2712 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
2713 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
2714 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
2715 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
2717 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
2718 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
2719 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
2720 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
2721 annotations along with descriptors.
2722 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
2723 source, and its purpose.
2724 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
2726 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
2727 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
2728 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
2729 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
2732 o Major features (directory authorities):
2733 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
2735 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
2736 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
2737 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
2738 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
2739 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
2740 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
2742 o Major features (v3 directory system):
2743 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
2744 and download the descriptors listed in them.
2745 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
2746 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
2747 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
2749 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
2750 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
2751 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
2752 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
2755 o Major bugfixes (performance):
2756 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
2757 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
2758 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
2759 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
2761 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
2762 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
2763 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
2764 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
2765 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
2766 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
2768 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
2769 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
2771 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
2772 certificate is requested.
2773 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
2774 certificate requests.
2776 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
2777 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
2778 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
2779 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
2782 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2783 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
2784 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
2785 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2787 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
2788 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
2790 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
2791 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
2792 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
2793 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
2794 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
2795 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
2796 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
2797 downloads more sensible.
2798 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
2799 another when serving certificates.
2801 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
2802 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
2803 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
2804 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
2806 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
2807 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
2808 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
2810 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
2811 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
2813 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2814 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
2815 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
2816 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
2817 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
2819 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
2820 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
2821 WARN-severity events.
2822 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
2823 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
2824 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
2826 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
2827 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
2828 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
2830 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
2831 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
2832 circuit cannibalization).
2834 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2835 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
2836 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
2837 new module, networkstatus.c.
2838 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
2839 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
2840 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
2841 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
2842 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
2843 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
2844 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
2845 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
2846 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
2848 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
2850 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
2851 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
2854 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
2855 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
2856 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
2857 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
2859 o New directory authorities:
2860 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
2861 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
2863 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
2864 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
2865 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2867 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
2868 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
2869 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
2870 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
2871 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
2872 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
2873 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
2874 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
2875 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
2876 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
2877 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2879 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
2880 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
2881 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
2882 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
2883 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
2884 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
2885 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
2886 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
2887 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
2889 o Minor features (security):
2890 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
2891 address maps to an internal address space.
2892 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
2893 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
2895 o Minor features (guard nodes):
2896 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
2897 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
2898 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
2899 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
2901 o Minor features (speed):
2902 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
2903 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
2904 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
2905 on big-endian hosts.)
2907 o Minor features (controller):
2908 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
2909 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
2910 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
2911 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
2915 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
2916 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
2917 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
2918 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
2919 implementation of proposal 104.
2920 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
2921 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
2922 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
2923 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
2924 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
2925 patch from Karsten Loesing.
2926 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
2927 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
2930 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
2931 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
2932 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2933 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
2934 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2935 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
2936 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2937 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
2938 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
2939 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2940 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
2941 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
2942 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
2943 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2944 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
2945 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
2946 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
2947 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2948 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
2949 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
2951 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2952 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
2953 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
2955 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
2956 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
2957 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
2958 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
2961 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
2962 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
2963 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
2964 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
2965 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
2968 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
2969 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
2972 o Major bugfixes (security):
2973 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
2974 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
2975 become more of a headache than it's worth.
2977 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
2978 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
2979 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
2981 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
2982 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
2983 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
2984 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
2985 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
2986 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
2988 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
2989 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
2990 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
2991 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
2992 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
2994 o Minor features (controller):
2995 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
2996 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
2997 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
2998 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
3000 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
3001 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
3002 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
3003 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
3004 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
3005 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
3006 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
3007 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
3009 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
3010 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
3011 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
3012 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
3013 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
3014 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
3015 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
3016 if we ran off the end of the list.
3017 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
3018 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
3019 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
3020 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
3021 every time we change any piece of our config.
3022 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
3023 encourage people using them to stop.
3024 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
3026 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
3027 servers to choose a circuit.
3028 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
3029 unparseable piece of it.
3032 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
3033 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
3034 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
3035 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
3038 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
3039 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
3040 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
3041 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
3042 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
3044 o New directory authorities:
3045 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
3048 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
3049 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
3050 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
3051 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
3053 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
3054 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
3055 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
3057 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
3058 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
3059 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
3060 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
3061 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
3062 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
3064 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
3065 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
3066 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3069 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
3070 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
3071 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
3072 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
3076 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
3077 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
3078 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
3079 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
3081 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
3082 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
3084 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
3085 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
3086 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
3087 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
3088 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
3089 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
3090 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3091 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
3092 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3093 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
3096 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
3097 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
3098 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
3099 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
3100 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
3101 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
3104 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
3105 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
3106 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
3107 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
3110 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
3111 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
3112 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
3113 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
3114 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
3117 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
3118 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
3119 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
3120 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
3121 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
3124 o Minor features (directory servers):
3125 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
3126 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
3128 o Minor features (directory voting):
3129 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
3132 o Minor features (security):
3133 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
3134 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
3135 encourage people using them to stop.
3137 o Minor features (controller):
3138 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
3139 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
3140 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
3141 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
3142 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
3143 cookie authentication file, and config option
3144 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
3146 o Minor features (unit testing):
3147 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
3148 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
3149 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
3150 logging for the unit tests.
3152 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
3153 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
3154 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
3155 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
3156 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
3157 every time we change any piece of our config.
3158 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
3159 the future. Fixes bug 434.
3160 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
3162 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
3163 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
3164 the onion key from getting rotated.
3165 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
3166 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
3167 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
3170 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
3171 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
3172 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
3174 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
3175 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
3176 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
3177 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
3180 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
3181 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
3182 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
3183 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
3184 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
3185 TorK, etc. Or worse.
3187 o Major security fixes:
3188 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
3189 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
3192 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
3193 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
3194 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
3195 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
3197 o Major security fixes:
3198 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
3199 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
3201 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
3202 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
3205 o Minor features (performance):
3206 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
3207 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
3208 performance-intensive.
3209 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
3210 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
3211 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
3212 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
3213 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
3214 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
3218 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
3219 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
3220 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
3221 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
3225 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
3226 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
3227 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
3228 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
3229 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
3231 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
3232 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
3233 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
3234 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
3236 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
3237 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
3238 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
3239 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
3240 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
3242 o Major features (experimental):
3243 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
3244 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
3245 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
3246 handling before it's ready for use.
3249 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
3250 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
3251 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
3252 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
3253 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
3254 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
3256 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
3257 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
3258 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
3259 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
3260 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
3262 o Major bugfixes (directory):
3263 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
3264 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
3266 o Minor features (controller):
3267 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
3268 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
3269 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
3271 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
3273 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
3274 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
3276 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
3277 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
3278 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
3279 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
3280 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
3281 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
3282 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
3285 o Minor features (misc):
3286 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
3288 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
3289 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
3290 the authority identity key.
3291 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
3293 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
3294 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
3295 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
3298 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
3299 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
3300 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
3301 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
3302 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
3303 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
3304 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
3305 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
3307 o Performance improvements:
3308 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
3310 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
3311 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
3314 o Deprecated and removed features:
3315 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
3316 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
3317 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
3318 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
3320 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
3321 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
3322 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
3323 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
3324 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
3325 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
3326 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
3327 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
3328 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
3331 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
3332 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
3333 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
3334 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
3335 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
3337 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
3338 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
3341 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3342 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
3343 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
3344 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
3345 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
3346 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
3347 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
3348 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
3349 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
3352 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
3353 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
3354 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
3355 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
3357 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
3358 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
3360 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
3361 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
3362 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
3363 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
3364 routerlist while inserting a new router.
3365 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
3366 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
3368 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
3369 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
3370 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
3372 o Major bugfixes (security):
3373 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
3375 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
3376 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
3377 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
3378 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
3379 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
3380 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
3381 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
3382 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
3383 guard list unless we need to.
3385 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
3386 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
3387 don't get overused as guards.
3389 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
3390 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
3391 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
3392 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
3393 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
3395 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
3396 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
3397 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
3400 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
3401 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
3402 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
3403 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
3404 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
3405 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
3406 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
3407 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
3410 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
3411 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
3412 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
3413 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
3415 o Minor features (directory):
3416 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
3417 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
3418 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
3419 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
3421 o Minor build issues:
3422 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
3423 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
3424 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
3425 in the tarball, not as "x".
3428 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
3429 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
3430 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
3431 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
3432 forward on a lot of fronts.
3434 o Major features, server usability:
3435 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
3436 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
3437 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
3438 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
3440 o Major features, client usability:
3441 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
3442 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
3443 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
3444 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
3445 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
3446 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
3447 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
3448 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
3450 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
3451 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
3452 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
3453 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
3454 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
3455 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
3457 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
3458 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
3459 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
3461 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
3462 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
3463 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
3464 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
3465 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
3467 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
3468 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
3469 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
3470 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
3472 o Major features, other:
3473 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
3474 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
3475 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
3476 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
3477 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
3480 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
3481 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
3482 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
3485 o Minor fixes (resource management):
3486 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
3487 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
3488 our allocated connection limit.
3489 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
3490 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
3491 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
3492 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
3493 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
3495 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
3496 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
3497 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
3499 o Minor features (build):
3500 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
3501 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
3502 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
3503 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
3505 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
3506 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
3507 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
3508 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
3509 Use this version consistently in log messages.
3511 o Minor features (logging):
3512 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
3513 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
3514 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
3515 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
3516 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
3519 o Minor features (directory system):
3520 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
3521 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
3522 not to serve V2 directory information.
3523 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
3524 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
3525 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
3527 o Minor features (controller):
3528 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
3529 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
3531 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
3532 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
3533 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
3534 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
3535 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
3536 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
3538 o Minor features (hidden services):
3539 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
3540 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
3541 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
3542 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
3544 o Minor features (other):
3546 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
3547 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
3548 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
3549 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
3550 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
3551 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
3552 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
3553 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
3554 longer a completely silly thing to do.
3555 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
3556 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
3557 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
3558 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
3561 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
3562 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
3563 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
3564 back an error and close the connection.
3565 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
3566 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
3569 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
3570 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
3571 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
3572 makes the log messages nicer.
3573 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
3574 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
3575 partial results on small file reads.
3577 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
3578 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
3579 more often than they are allowed to appear.
3580 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
3581 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
3583 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3584 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
3585 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
3586 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
3588 o Minor bugfixes (other):
3589 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
3590 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
3591 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
3592 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
3593 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
3594 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
3595 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
3596 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
3597 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
3598 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
3600 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
3601 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
3602 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
3604 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
3605 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
3606 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
3607 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
3609 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3610 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
3611 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
3613 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
3614 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
3617 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3618 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
3619 implicit in other procedure arguments.
3620 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
3621 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
3622 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
3623 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
3624 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
3625 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
3626 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
3627 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
3628 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
3631 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
3632 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
3633 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
3634 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
3636 o Directory authority changes:
3637 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
3638 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
3639 or use hidden services.
3641 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
3642 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
3643 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
3644 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
3645 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
3646 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
3647 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
3648 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
3649 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
3652 o Major bugfixes (security):
3653 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
3654 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
3655 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
3657 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
3658 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
3659 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
3660 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
3661 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
3662 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
3663 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
3664 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
3665 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
3666 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
3669 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
3671 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
3672 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
3674 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
3675 having a hard time downloading.
3676 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
3677 partial results on small file reads.
3678 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
3679 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
3680 the gaps in the store get very large.
3683 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
3684 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
3686 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
3687 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
3690 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
3691 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
3692 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
3693 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
3694 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
3695 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
3697 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
3698 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
3699 free speech on the Internet.
3702 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
3703 get one we don't recognize.
3704 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
3705 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
3708 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
3710 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
3711 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
3712 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
3713 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
3716 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
3717 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
3720 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
3721 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
3722 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
3723 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
3724 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
3725 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
3729 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
3730 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
3731 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
3732 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
3733 on Win98 and friends again.
3735 o Minor bugfixes (other):
3736 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
3737 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
3740 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
3741 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
3742 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
3743 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
3744 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
3745 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
3746 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
3747 and maybe also bug 397.)
3749 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
3750 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
3751 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
3753 o Minor bugfixes (server):
3754 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
3757 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3758 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
3759 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
3760 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
3761 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
3763 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
3764 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
3765 load on authorities.
3767 o Minor bugfixes (other):
3768 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
3769 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
3770 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
3772 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
3774 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
3775 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
3776 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
3777 the last of bug 326.)
3778 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
3779 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
3783 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
3784 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
3785 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
3786 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
3787 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
3788 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
3789 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
3791 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
3792 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
3794 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
3795 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
3796 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
3798 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
3799 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
3800 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
3802 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3803 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
3804 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
3805 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
3807 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
3808 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
3810 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
3811 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
3812 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
3815 o Minor bugfixes (other):
3816 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
3817 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
3818 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
3819 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
3820 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
3821 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
3822 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
3823 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
3824 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
3825 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
3826 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
3827 other than file-not-found.
3828 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
3829 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
3830 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
3831 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
3832 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
3833 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
3834 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
3835 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
3836 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
3837 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
3838 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
3839 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
3840 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
3841 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
3842 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
3844 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
3846 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
3847 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
3849 o Minor features (controller):
3850 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
3851 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
3852 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
3854 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
3855 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
3856 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
3857 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
3858 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
3859 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
3860 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
3861 connected or resolved cell.
3863 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
3864 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
3865 some profiles, but not others.)
3866 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
3867 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
3868 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
3871 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
3873 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
3874 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
3875 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
3876 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
3877 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
3878 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
3879 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
3880 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
3881 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
3882 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
3883 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
3884 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
3885 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
3886 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
3887 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
3889 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
3892 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
3893 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
3894 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
3895 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
3896 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
3897 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
3898 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
3900 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
3901 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
3902 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
3903 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
3904 buckets go absurdly negative.
3905 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
3906 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
3909 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
3910 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
3911 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
3912 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
3913 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
3914 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
3915 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
3916 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
3919 o Major bugfixes (other):
3920 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
3921 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
3922 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
3923 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
3925 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
3927 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
3928 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
3930 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
3931 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
3932 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
3933 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
3934 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
3937 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
3938 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
3939 possible memory-stomping bugs.
3940 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
3941 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
3943 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
3944 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
3945 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
3946 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
3947 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
3948 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
3950 o Minor bugfixes (other):
3951 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
3952 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
3953 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
3955 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
3956 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
3957 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
3958 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
3959 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
3960 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
3961 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
3962 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
3963 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
3964 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
3965 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
3966 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
3967 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
3969 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
3970 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
3971 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
3972 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
3973 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
3974 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
3975 to the resulting address.
3978 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
3979 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
3980 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
3981 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
3984 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
3985 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
3987 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
3988 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
3989 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
3990 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
3991 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
3992 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
3993 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
3994 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
3995 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
3996 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
3997 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
3998 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
3999 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
4000 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
4001 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
4002 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
4003 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
4006 o Minor features (controller):
4007 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
4008 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
4009 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
4010 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
4011 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
4012 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
4013 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
4017 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
4019 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
4020 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
4021 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
4022 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
4023 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
4024 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
4027 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
4028 weren't planning to resolve.
4029 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
4030 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
4031 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
4032 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
4033 the controller from learning about current events.
4035 o Minor features (more controller status events):
4036 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
4037 learn when our address changes.
4038 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
4039 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
4040 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
4041 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
4043 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
4044 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
4045 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
4046 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
4047 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
4048 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
4049 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
4050 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
4051 are accepted by a directory.
4052 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
4053 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
4054 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
4055 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
4056 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
4058 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
4059 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
4060 about changes to DNS server status.
4062 o Minor features (directory):
4063 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
4064 too much load to the exit nodes.
4067 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
4069 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
4070 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
4071 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
4072 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
4073 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
4075 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
4076 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
4077 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
4079 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
4080 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
4081 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
4082 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
4083 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
4084 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
4085 config options if you like.
4087 o Minor features (config and docs):
4088 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
4089 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
4090 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
4091 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
4092 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
4094 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
4095 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
4096 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
4097 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
4098 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
4100 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
4101 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
4102 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
4103 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
4104 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
4105 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
4106 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
4107 documentation: "make check-docs".
4108 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
4109 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
4111 o Minor features (DNS):
4112 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
4113 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
4114 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
4115 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
4116 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
4117 our tests for DNS hijacking.
4119 o Minor features (directory):
4120 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
4121 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
4122 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
4123 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
4124 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
4125 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
4126 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
4127 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
4128 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
4129 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
4130 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
4131 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
4132 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
4133 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
4134 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
4135 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
4136 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
4137 for the thing we're trying to download.
4138 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
4139 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
4140 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
4142 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
4143 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
4144 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
4147 o Minor features (controller):
4148 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
4149 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
4151 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
4152 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
4153 entry guard status as it changes.
4155 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
4156 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
4157 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
4158 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
4160 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
4161 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
4162 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
4163 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
4166 o Major bugfixes (security):
4167 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
4168 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
4169 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
4170 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
4172 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
4173 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
4174 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
4175 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
4176 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
4178 o Major bugfixes (other):
4179 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
4180 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
4181 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
4182 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
4184 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
4185 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
4186 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
4187 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
4188 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
4189 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
4193 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
4194 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
4195 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
4196 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
4197 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
4199 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
4200 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
4202 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
4203 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
4204 family lists conveniently.
4205 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
4206 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
4207 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
4209 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
4210 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
4212 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
4213 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
4214 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
4215 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
4216 if their identity keys are as expected.
4217 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
4218 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
4219 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
4221 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4222 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
4223 reported by Mike Perry.
4224 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
4225 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
4226 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
4227 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
4230 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
4231 o Security bugfixes:
4232 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
4233 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
4234 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
4235 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
4239 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
4240 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
4241 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
4244 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
4246 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
4247 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
4248 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
4251 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
4252 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
4253 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
4254 watching for STREAM events.
4255 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
4256 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
4257 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
4258 operations, for profiling.
4261 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
4262 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
4263 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
4264 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
4265 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
4266 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
4268 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
4272 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
4273 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
4274 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
4275 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
4276 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
4278 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
4279 correctly in the Windows installer.
4280 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
4281 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
4282 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
4284 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
4285 when we're running as a client.
4288 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
4290 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
4291 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
4292 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
4293 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
4294 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
4295 its circuits on demand.
4296 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
4297 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
4298 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
4299 connections more stable on average.
4300 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
4301 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
4302 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
4304 o Security bugfixes:
4305 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
4306 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
4309 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
4311 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
4312 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
4313 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
4314 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
4315 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
4316 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
4317 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
4318 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
4321 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
4323 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
4324 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
4325 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
4326 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
4327 routers for even longer.
4328 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
4329 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
4330 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
4331 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
4332 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
4333 caching HTTP proxies.
4334 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
4337 o Minor features, controller:
4338 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
4339 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
4340 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
4341 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
4343 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
4344 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
4345 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
4346 working much like those for circuit events.
4347 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
4348 about the current status of a router.
4349 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
4350 a router's status has changed.
4351 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
4352 can tell which events and features are supported.
4353 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
4354 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
4356 o Security bugfixes:
4357 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
4358 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
4361 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
4362 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
4363 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
4364 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
4365 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
4366 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
4367 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
4368 long nicknames where appropriate.
4369 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
4370 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
4371 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
4372 chews through many circuits before giving up.
4373 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
4374 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
4375 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
4376 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
4377 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
4378 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
4380 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
4381 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
4382 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
4384 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
4385 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
4386 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
4387 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
4388 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
4389 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
4390 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
4391 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
4392 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
4393 (reported by fookoowa).
4394 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
4395 and reported by some Centos users.
4396 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
4397 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
4398 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
4399 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
4400 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
4401 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
4402 before we check for libevent.
4405 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
4407 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
4408 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
4409 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
4410 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
4411 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
4412 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
4413 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
4414 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
4415 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
4416 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
4417 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
4418 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
4419 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
4420 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
4421 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
4422 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
4423 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
4424 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
4425 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
4426 lets you turn it off.
4427 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
4428 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
4429 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
4430 us into the directory more quickly.
4432 o New/improved config options:
4433 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
4434 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
4435 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
4436 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
4437 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
4438 all the machines on the same subnet.
4439 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
4440 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
4441 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
4442 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
4443 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
4444 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
4445 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
4446 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
4447 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
4448 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
4450 o Minor features, controller:
4451 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
4452 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
4453 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
4454 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
4455 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
4456 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
4457 for more information.
4458 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
4459 best guess to the user.
4460 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
4461 descriptor has changed.
4462 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
4464 o Minor features, other:
4465 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
4466 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
4467 useful to the network.
4468 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
4469 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
4470 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
4471 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
4472 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
4473 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
4474 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
4475 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
4476 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
4477 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
4478 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
4479 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
4480 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
4481 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
4482 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
4484 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
4485 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
4486 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
4487 could return an unnamed server instead.
4488 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
4489 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
4490 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
4491 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
4492 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
4493 a more attractive target for compromise.)
4494 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
4495 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
4496 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
4498 o Major bugfixes, other:
4499 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
4500 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
4501 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
4502 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
4503 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
4504 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
4505 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
4506 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
4507 its circuits on demand.
4508 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
4509 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
4510 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
4511 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
4513 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
4514 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
4515 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
4517 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
4519 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
4520 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
4521 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
4522 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
4523 "extendcircuit" request.
4524 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
4525 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
4526 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
4528 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
4529 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
4530 instead of "X resolved to X".
4531 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
4532 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
4533 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
4534 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
4535 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
4536 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
4537 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
4538 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
4539 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
4541 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
4542 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
4543 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
4544 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
4545 result more than once.
4546 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
4547 non-versioning dirservers.
4548 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
4549 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
4551 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
4552 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
4553 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
4554 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
4555 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
4556 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
4557 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
4558 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
4559 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
4561 o Packaging, features:
4562 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
4563 now universal binaries.
4564 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
4565 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
4566 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
4568 o Packaging, bugfixes:
4569 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
4570 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
4571 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
4572 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
4574 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
4575 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
4576 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
4579 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
4580 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
4581 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
4585 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
4587 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
4588 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
4589 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
4590 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
4591 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
4592 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
4593 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
4594 it can't resolve its hostname.
4597 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
4598 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
4599 "extendcircuit" request.
4600 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
4601 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
4602 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
4603 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
4605 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
4606 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
4607 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
4609 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
4610 methods: these are known to be buggy.
4611 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
4612 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
4616 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
4618 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
4619 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
4620 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
4621 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
4622 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
4623 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
4624 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
4625 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
4626 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
4627 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
4628 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
4629 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
4630 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
4631 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
4632 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
4633 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
4634 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
4635 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
4636 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
4637 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
4638 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
4639 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
4640 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
4641 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
4644 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
4645 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
4646 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
4647 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
4648 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
4649 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
4650 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
4651 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
4652 recommendation system saner.)
4653 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
4655 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
4656 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
4657 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
4658 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
4659 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
4660 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
4661 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
4662 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
4663 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
4664 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
4665 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
4666 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
4668 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
4669 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
4670 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
4671 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
4672 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
4673 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
4674 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
4675 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
4676 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
4677 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
4678 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
4679 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
4681 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
4682 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
4683 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
4684 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
4685 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
4686 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
4689 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
4690 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
4691 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
4692 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
4693 our DirPort now, etc.
4694 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
4695 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
4696 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
4697 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
4698 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
4699 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
4700 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
4702 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
4703 whether the config options are bad or good.
4704 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
4705 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
4706 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
4707 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
4708 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
4709 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
4710 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
4711 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
4714 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
4715 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
4716 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
4717 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
4718 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
4719 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
4720 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
4721 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
4722 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
4723 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
4724 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
4725 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
4726 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
4727 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
4728 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
4729 of it), is not therefore "up".
4730 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
4731 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
4732 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
4733 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
4734 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
4735 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
4738 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
4740 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
4741 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
4742 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
4743 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
4744 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
4745 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
4746 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
4747 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
4748 test reachability, so you won't publish.
4751 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
4752 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
4753 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
4754 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
4755 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
4757 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
4758 own server descriptor yet.
4761 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
4763 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
4764 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
4765 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
4766 make sure to test via one of these.
4767 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
4768 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
4769 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
4770 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
4771 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
4773 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
4774 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
4775 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
4778 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
4779 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
4780 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
4781 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
4782 directory authority.
4783 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
4784 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
4785 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
4786 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
4789 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
4790 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
4791 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
4793 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
4794 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
4795 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
4796 current guards when picking a new guard.
4797 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
4798 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
4799 when we had more than one pending.
4800 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
4801 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
4802 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
4803 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
4804 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
4805 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
4806 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
4807 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
4808 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
4809 debug the reachability problems better.
4811 o Log / documentation fixes:
4812 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
4813 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
4814 about protocol violations by others.
4815 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
4816 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
4817 about what happened to our old torrc.
4820 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
4822 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
4824 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
4825 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
4826 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
4827 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
4830 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
4832 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
4833 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
4834 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
4835 old ORPort and receive connections.
4836 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
4838 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
4839 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
4840 and network-statuses.
4841 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
4842 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
4843 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
4844 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
4846 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
4849 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
4850 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
4851 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
4854 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
4856 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
4857 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
4858 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
4859 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
4860 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
4863 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
4864 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
4866 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
4867 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
4868 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
4869 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
4870 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
4871 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
4872 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
4873 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
4874 rather than not sending anything back at all.
4875 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
4876 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
4877 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
4878 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
4879 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
4880 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
4881 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
4882 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
4883 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
4884 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
4885 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
4886 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
4887 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
4888 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
4889 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
4890 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
4891 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
4892 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
4893 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
4894 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
4895 default ulimit -n is 1024.
4898 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
4899 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
4900 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
4901 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
4904 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
4906 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
4907 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
4908 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
4909 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
4910 entry guards running these flawed versions.
4911 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
4912 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
4913 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
4914 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
4915 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
4918 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
4919 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
4921 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
4922 and it is confusing some users.
4923 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
4924 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
4925 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
4926 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
4927 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
4930 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
4932 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
4933 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
4934 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
4935 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
4936 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
4937 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
4938 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
4939 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
4940 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
4941 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
4942 dirport is set for now.
4944 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
4945 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
4946 unattached before we fail it?
4947 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
4948 at least this many seconds ago.
4949 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
4950 at least this many seconds ago.
4953 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
4954 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
4955 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
4956 or resolve-wait stream.
4957 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
4958 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
4959 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
4960 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
4961 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
4962 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
4963 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
4964 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
4966 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
4967 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
4968 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
4969 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
4970 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
4971 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
4972 given as hex digests.
4973 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
4974 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
4975 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
4976 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
4977 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
4978 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
4979 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
4980 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
4983 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4984 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
4985 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
4986 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
4987 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
4988 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
4989 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
4990 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
4991 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
4992 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
4993 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
4996 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
4997 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
4998 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
4999 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
5000 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
5001 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
5002 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
5005 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
5006 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
5007 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
5008 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
5009 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
5010 misreading their logs.
5011 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
5012 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
5013 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
5014 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
5015 valid router descriptors.
5016 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
5017 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
5018 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
5019 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
5020 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
5021 silently resetting it to its default.
5022 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
5024 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
5027 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
5029 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
5030 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
5031 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
5032 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
5033 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
5035 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
5036 because older Tors do not understand it.
5037 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
5041 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
5042 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
5043 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
5044 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
5045 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
5046 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
5047 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
5048 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
5049 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
5050 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
5051 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
5053 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
5054 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
5055 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
5056 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
5058 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
5059 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
5062 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
5063 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
5064 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
5065 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
5066 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
5067 without getting overloaded.
5068 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
5070 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
5071 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
5072 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
5073 be forward-compatible.
5074 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
5075 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
5076 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
5077 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
5079 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
5080 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
5081 and OR conns to port 443.
5082 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
5083 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
5085 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
5086 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
5087 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
5088 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
5089 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
5090 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
5091 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
5094 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
5095 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5096 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
5097 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
5099 o Other important bugfixes:
5100 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
5101 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
5102 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
5103 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
5105 o Backported features:
5106 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
5107 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
5108 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
5109 without getting overloaded.
5110 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
5111 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
5112 503's whenever they feel busy.
5113 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
5114 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
5115 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
5116 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
5117 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
5120 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
5121 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
5122 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
5123 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
5124 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
5125 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
5126 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
5127 know if the crashes continue.
5128 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
5129 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
5130 seg faults in at least some cases.)
5131 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
5132 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
5133 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
5136 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
5137 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
5138 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
5139 try to be a bit more fair.
5140 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
5141 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
5142 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
5143 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
5144 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
5145 bug that let it go negative.
5146 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
5147 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
5148 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
5149 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
5150 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
5151 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
5152 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
5153 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
5154 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
5155 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
5156 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
5159 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
5161 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
5162 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
5163 service descriptors.
5166 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
5167 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
5168 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
5169 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
5171 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
5172 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
5173 versions *are* still recommended.
5174 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
5175 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
5176 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
5177 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
5178 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
5179 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
5180 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
5181 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
5183 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
5184 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
5185 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
5186 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
5187 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
5188 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
5189 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
5190 on it. Not used by clients yet.
5191 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
5192 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
5193 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
5194 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
5195 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
5196 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
5197 established a circuit.
5198 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
5199 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
5200 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
5201 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
5204 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
5205 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
5206 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
5207 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
5208 quickly enough. Oops.
5209 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
5211 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5212 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
5215 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
5216 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
5217 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
5218 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
5219 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
5220 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
5221 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
5222 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
5223 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
5224 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
5225 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
5226 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
5227 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
5228 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
5229 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
5230 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
5231 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
5234 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
5235 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
5236 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
5237 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
5238 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
5239 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
5240 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
5241 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
5242 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
5243 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
5244 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
5245 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
5246 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
5247 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
5248 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
5249 connections more reliable.
5252 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
5253 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
5254 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
5255 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
5256 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
5257 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
5258 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
5259 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
5260 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
5261 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
5262 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
5263 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
5264 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
5265 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
5269 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
5270 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
5271 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
5272 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
5273 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
5274 need to be uint64_t's.
5275 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
5276 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
5277 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
5279 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
5281 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
5282 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
5283 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
5284 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
5285 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
5286 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
5287 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
5289 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
5290 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
5291 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
5292 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
5293 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
5294 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
5295 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
5296 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
5297 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
5298 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
5299 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
5300 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
5301 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
5304 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
5305 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
5306 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
5307 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
5308 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
5309 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
5310 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
5312 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
5313 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
5314 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
5315 can answer v2 directory requests too.
5316 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
5317 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
5318 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
5319 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
5321 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
5322 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
5323 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
5324 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
5325 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
5326 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
5327 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
5328 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
5329 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
5330 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
5331 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
5332 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
5333 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
5334 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
5335 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
5337 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
5338 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
5341 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
5342 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5343 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
5344 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
5345 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
5346 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
5347 too -- so detect and avoid this.
5348 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
5350 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
5351 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
5352 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
5353 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
5354 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
5355 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
5356 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
5357 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
5358 rendezvous circuits.
5359 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
5361 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5362 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
5363 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
5364 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
5365 advertising it because of hibernation.
5366 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
5367 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
5368 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
5369 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
5370 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
5371 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
5372 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
5373 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
5374 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
5375 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
5376 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
5377 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
5378 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
5379 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
5382 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
5383 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5384 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
5385 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
5386 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
5387 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
5388 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
5389 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
5390 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
5391 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
5392 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
5393 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
5394 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
5395 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
5396 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
5397 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
5398 connections once a week.
5399 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
5400 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
5401 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
5402 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
5403 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
5404 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
5406 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
5407 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
5408 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
5410 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5411 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
5412 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
5413 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
5414 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
5415 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
5416 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
5417 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
5418 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
5419 firewall options forbid.
5420 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
5421 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
5422 can only proxy to certain destinations.
5423 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
5424 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
5425 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
5426 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
5427 aids some statistical attacks.
5428 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
5429 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
5430 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
5431 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
5433 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
5434 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
5435 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
5436 server descriptor sometimes.
5437 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
5438 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
5439 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
5440 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
5441 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
5442 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
5443 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
5444 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
5446 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
5447 case the controller wants to change that too.
5448 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
5449 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
5450 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
5451 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
5453 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
5454 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
5455 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
5457 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
5458 descriptors that they know they will reject.
5460 o Features and updates:
5461 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
5462 significantly faster.
5463 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
5464 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
5465 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
5466 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
5467 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
5468 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
5469 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
5470 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
5471 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
5472 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
5473 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
5474 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
5475 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
5476 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
5477 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
5478 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
5479 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
5480 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
5481 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
5482 as authoritative dirserver.
5483 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
5484 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
5485 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
5488 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
5489 o Usability improvements:
5490 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
5491 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
5493 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
5494 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
5495 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
5497 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
5498 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
5499 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
5500 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
5501 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
5502 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
5503 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
5504 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
5505 memory leaks better.
5506 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
5507 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
5508 their operators to pay close attention.
5509 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
5510 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
5512 o Performance improvements:
5513 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
5514 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
5515 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
5516 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
5517 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
5518 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
5519 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
5520 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
5521 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
5522 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
5523 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
5524 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
5525 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
5526 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
5527 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
5528 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
5529 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
5531 o Security improvements:
5532 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
5533 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
5534 fingerprint of server.
5535 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
5536 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
5537 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
5539 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5540 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
5541 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
5542 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
5543 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
5544 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
5545 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
5546 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
5547 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
5548 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
5549 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
5550 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
5551 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
5552 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
5553 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
5554 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
5555 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
5556 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
5557 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
5558 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
5559 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
5561 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
5562 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
5563 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
5565 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
5566 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
5568 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
5569 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
5570 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
5571 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
5572 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
5573 of the controller protocol.
5574 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
5575 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
5576 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
5579 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
5580 o New features (major):
5581 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
5582 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
5583 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
5584 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
5585 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
5586 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
5587 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
5588 we're using a default DirPort.
5589 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
5591 o New features (minor):
5592 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
5593 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
5594 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
5595 mirrors still cache and serve it).
5596 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
5597 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
5598 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
5599 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
5600 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
5601 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
5602 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
5603 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
5604 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
5605 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
5606 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
5607 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
5608 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
5609 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
5610 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
5612 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
5613 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
5614 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
5615 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
5616 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
5617 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
5618 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
5619 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
5621 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
5622 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
5623 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
5624 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
5625 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
5626 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
5627 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
5628 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
5629 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
5630 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
5632 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
5633 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
5634 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
5635 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
5636 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
5639 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
5640 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
5642 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
5643 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
5645 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
5646 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
5647 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
5648 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
5649 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
5650 don't warn twice about the same name.
5651 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
5652 if we've not heard of the server.
5653 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
5654 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
5657 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
5658 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5659 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
5660 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
5661 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
5662 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
5663 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
5664 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
5665 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
5666 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
5667 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
5668 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
5669 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
5670 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
5671 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
5674 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
5675 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
5676 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
5677 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
5678 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
5680 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
5681 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
5682 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
5683 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
5684 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
5685 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
5689 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
5690 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
5691 nickname) is reachable by you.
5692 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
5696 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
5697 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
5698 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
5699 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
5700 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
5701 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
5702 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
5703 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
5704 we fail to connect).
5705 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
5706 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
5707 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
5708 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
5710 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
5711 it was self-testing that told us so.
5714 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
5715 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
5716 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
5717 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
5718 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
5719 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
5720 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
5721 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
5722 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
5723 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
5724 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
5725 exit policy using him for any exits.
5726 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
5729 o New controller features/fixes:
5730 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
5731 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
5732 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
5733 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
5734 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
5735 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
5736 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
5737 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
5738 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
5740 o Start on the new directory design:
5741 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
5742 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
5744 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
5745 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
5746 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
5747 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
5749 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
5750 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
5751 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
5752 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
5753 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
5754 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
5755 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
5756 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
5759 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
5760 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
5761 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
5762 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
5763 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
5764 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
5765 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
5766 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
5767 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
5768 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
5770 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
5771 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
5772 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
5773 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
5774 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
5775 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
5776 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
5777 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
5778 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
5780 o Config option changes:
5781 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
5782 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
5783 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
5784 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
5785 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
5786 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
5789 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
5790 people have started using them for spam too.
5791 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
5792 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
5793 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
5794 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
5795 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
5796 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
5797 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
5798 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
5799 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
5800 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
5801 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
5802 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
5803 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
5804 services faster on the service end.
5805 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
5806 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
5807 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
5808 it a fair shake next time we try.
5809 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
5810 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
5811 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
5812 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
5813 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
5814 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
5815 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
5816 able to discover them.
5817 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
5818 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
5819 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
5820 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
5821 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
5822 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
5823 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
5824 testing for reachability.
5825 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
5826 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
5828 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
5830 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
5831 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
5834 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
5835 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
5837 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5838 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
5839 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
5840 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
5843 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
5844 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5845 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
5847 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
5848 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
5851 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
5852 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
5855 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
5856 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
5857 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
5858 options, getinfo keys.
5861 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
5862 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5863 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
5864 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
5865 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
5866 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
5867 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
5869 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
5870 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
5874 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
5875 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
5876 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
5878 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
5880 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
5881 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
5882 circuit events and we go offline.
5883 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
5884 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
5885 you don't have enough intro points already.
5887 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
5888 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
5889 many bytes we've used in this time period.
5890 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
5891 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
5892 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
5893 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
5894 enabled by default yet.
5896 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
5897 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
5898 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
5899 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
5900 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
5903 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
5904 o New directory servers:
5905 - tor26 has changed IP address.
5907 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5908 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
5909 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
5911 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
5912 claims its dirport is 0.
5913 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
5914 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
5918 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
5919 o New directory servers:
5920 - tor26 has changed IP address.
5922 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
5923 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
5925 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
5926 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
5927 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
5928 ports that have changed.
5929 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
5931 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
5932 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
5933 Windows-style errno back.
5934 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
5936 want to make it an NT service.
5937 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
5938 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
5939 name, give the full name in our response.
5940 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
5941 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
5942 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
5943 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
5946 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
5947 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
5951 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
5952 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
5953 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
5954 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
5955 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
5958 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
5959 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5960 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
5961 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
5962 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
5963 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
5964 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
5965 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
5968 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
5970 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
5971 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
5972 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
5973 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
5974 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
5975 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
5977 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
5978 temporarily unreachable.
5979 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
5983 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
5984 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
5985 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
5987 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
5991 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
5992 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
5993 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
5994 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
5995 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
5999 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
6000 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
6001 libevent before 1.1a.
6004 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
6006 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
6007 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
6008 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
6009 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
6010 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
6012 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
6013 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
6014 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
6015 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
6016 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
6017 of CPU time plus memory.
6018 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
6019 normal web requests.
6020 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
6021 tor_lookup_hostname().
6022 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
6023 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
6024 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
6025 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
6026 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
6027 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
6029 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
6030 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
6031 HttpProxyAuthenticator
6032 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
6033 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
6034 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
6036 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
6037 the user asks you to.
6038 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
6039 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
6040 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
6041 their descriptors are being rejected.
6042 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
6046 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
6048 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
6049 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
6050 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
6052 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
6054 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
6056 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
6057 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
6058 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
6059 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
6060 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
6061 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
6062 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
6063 keys) from the exit server's process.
6064 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
6065 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
6066 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
6067 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
6068 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
6069 point at your Tor server.
6070 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
6071 you're not sending a socks reply back.
6074 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
6075 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
6076 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
6077 to make it easier to write controllers.
6080 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
6082 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
6083 installing on Tiger.
6084 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
6085 complain during installation.
6086 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
6087 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
6088 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
6089 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
6090 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
6091 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
6093 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
6094 something more reasonable when first installing.
6095 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
6098 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
6100 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
6101 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
6103 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
6104 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
6105 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
6106 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
6107 when using the default exit policy.
6108 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
6109 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
6110 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
6111 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
6112 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
6113 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
6114 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
6115 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
6116 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
6117 we fetched a new directory.
6118 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
6119 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
6122 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
6123 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
6124 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
6125 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
6126 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
6127 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
6128 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
6129 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
6131 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
6132 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
6133 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
6134 save memory on systems that need to fork.
6135 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
6136 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
6137 is valid without actually launching Tor.
6138 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
6139 rather than just rejecting it.
6142 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
6144 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
6145 we didn't like its cert.
6147 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
6148 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
6149 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
6150 on patch from Adam Langley.
6151 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
6152 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
6153 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
6154 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
6156 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
6157 directory every time you regenerate it.
6158 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
6159 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
6162 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
6163 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
6164 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
6165 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
6166 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
6169 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
6171 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
6172 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
6173 TLS errors better in other situations too.
6174 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
6175 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
6176 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
6177 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
6178 and don't log when you are.
6179 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
6180 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
6182 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
6183 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
6184 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
6185 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
6186 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
6189 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
6190 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
6191 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
6192 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
6193 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
6194 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
6195 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
6196 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
6197 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
6198 nickname+key are allowed.
6199 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
6200 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
6201 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
6202 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
6203 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
6204 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
6205 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
6206 have quite wrong clocks).
6207 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
6208 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
6209 - Efficiency improvements:
6210 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
6211 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
6212 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
6213 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
6214 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
6215 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
6216 lowercase and be done with it.
6217 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
6218 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
6219 to abandon partially built circuits.
6220 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
6221 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
6223 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
6225 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
6226 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
6227 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
6228 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
6230 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
6231 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
6233 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
6234 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
6235 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
6236 obeying the exit policy internally.
6237 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
6238 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
6240 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
6241 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
6242 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
6243 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
6245 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
6246 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
6247 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
6248 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
6249 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
6251 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
6252 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
6253 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
6254 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
6255 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
6256 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
6257 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
6258 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
6259 descriptors we just dropped.
6260 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
6261 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
6262 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
6263 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
6264 artificially capped at 500kB.
6267 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
6268 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
6269 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
6270 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
6271 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
6272 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
6273 busy for more than 100 seconds.
6276 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
6277 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
6278 - Fixes on reachability detection:
6279 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
6280 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
6281 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
6282 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
6283 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
6284 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
6285 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
6286 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
6287 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
6288 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
6289 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
6290 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
6291 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
6292 server not already connected to them.
6293 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
6294 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
6295 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
6297 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
6299 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
6300 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
6301 are in a different state than they actually are.
6302 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
6303 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
6304 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
6306 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
6307 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
6308 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
6310 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
6311 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
6312 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
6313 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
6314 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
6315 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
6316 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
6318 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
6319 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
6320 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
6321 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
6324 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
6325 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
6326 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
6327 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
6328 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
6329 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
6330 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
6331 creating actual system users.
6332 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
6333 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
6337 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
6339 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
6340 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
6341 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
6342 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
6343 hidden services better.
6344 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
6346 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
6347 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
6348 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
6349 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
6350 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
6351 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
6352 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
6353 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
6354 patch by Matt Edman).
6355 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
6356 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
6357 required exit node for certain sites.
6358 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
6359 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
6360 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
6361 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
6362 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
6363 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
6364 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
6365 rather than just "success" or "failure".
6366 - A more sane version numbering system. See
6367 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
6368 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
6369 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
6371 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
6372 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
6373 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
6374 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
6375 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
6376 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
6377 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
6379 o Robustness/stability fixes:
6380 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
6381 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
6382 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
6384 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
6385 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
6386 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
6388 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
6389 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
6390 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
6392 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
6393 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
6394 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
6395 that will want high uptime circuits.
6396 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
6397 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
6398 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
6399 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
6400 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
6401 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
6402 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
6403 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
6404 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
6405 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
6406 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
6407 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
6408 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
6409 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
6410 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
6411 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
6412 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
6413 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
6414 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
6415 when we try to launch one.
6416 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
6417 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
6418 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
6419 "ShutdownWaitLength".
6420 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
6421 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
6422 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
6423 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
6424 and to take errno into account where possible.
6427 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
6428 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
6429 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
6430 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
6431 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
6432 file more reasonable.
6433 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
6434 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
6435 addresses -- it won't.
6436 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
6437 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
6438 for google.com" problem.
6439 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
6440 so it's not just "unknown platform".
6441 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
6442 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
6443 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
6444 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
6446 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
6447 they could use instead.
6448 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
6449 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
6450 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
6451 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
6452 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
6453 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
6454 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
6455 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
6456 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
6458 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
6462 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
6463 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
6465 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
6466 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
6467 private-IP addresses.
6468 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
6469 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
6471 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
6472 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
6473 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
6474 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
6475 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
6476 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
6477 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
6479 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
6480 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
6481 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
6482 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
6483 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
6484 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
6485 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
6486 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
6488 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
6490 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
6491 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
6492 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
6493 whether the server is hibernating.
6496 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
6497 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
6498 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
6499 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
6500 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
6501 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
6502 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
6503 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
6504 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
6505 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
6506 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
6507 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
6508 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
6509 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
6510 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
6512 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
6513 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
6514 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
6515 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
6516 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
6517 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
6518 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
6519 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
6520 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
6521 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
6522 existing torrc files.
6523 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
6526 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
6527 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
6528 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
6529 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
6530 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
6531 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
6532 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
6533 the win32 SYSTEM account.
6534 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
6535 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
6536 file descriptors available.
6537 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
6538 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
6539 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
6542 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
6543 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
6544 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
6545 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
6547 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
6548 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
6549 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
6550 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
6551 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
6553 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
6554 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
6555 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
6556 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
6557 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
6558 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
6559 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
6560 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
6561 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
6562 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
6563 800kB/s of capacity.
6564 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
6567 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
6568 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
6569 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
6570 need as much processor time.
6571 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
6572 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
6573 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
6574 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
6575 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
6576 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
6577 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
6578 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
6579 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
6580 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
6581 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
6582 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
6584 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
6585 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
6586 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
6587 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
6588 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
6589 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
6590 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
6593 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
6594 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
6595 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
6597 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
6598 style address, then we'd crash.
6599 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
6600 a dirserver is broken.
6601 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
6603 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
6604 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
6605 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
6607 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
6608 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
6609 name out of the warning/assert messages.
6610 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
6611 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
6612 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
6614 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
6615 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
6616 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
6618 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
6620 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
6621 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
6622 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
6623 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
6624 values at once couldn't work.
6625 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
6626 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
6627 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
6628 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
6629 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
6630 they can handle any number of routers.
6631 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
6632 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
6633 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
6634 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
6635 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
6636 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
6637 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
6638 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
6639 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
6642 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
6643 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
6644 - Make hibernation actually work.
6645 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
6646 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
6647 don't use the stream status code.
6650 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
6652 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
6653 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
6655 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
6658 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
6659 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
6660 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
6661 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
6662 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
6663 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
6664 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
6665 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
6666 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
6667 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
6669 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
6670 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
6671 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
6672 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
6673 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
6674 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
6675 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
6676 - Make unit tests work on win32.
6679 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
6680 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
6681 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
6683 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
6684 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
6685 than just chopping them off.
6686 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
6688 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
6689 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
6690 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
6691 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
6692 right after sending the begin cell.
6693 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
6694 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
6695 exit nodes too. Oops.
6698 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
6699 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
6700 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
6701 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
6702 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
6703 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
6704 the user knows which one it's talking about.
6705 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
6706 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
6707 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
6710 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
6711 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
6712 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
6713 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
6715 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
6717 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
6718 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
6719 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
6721 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
6722 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
6723 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
6724 Clip rather than rejecting.
6725 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
6726 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
6729 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
6730 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
6731 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
6732 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
6734 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
6737 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
6738 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
6739 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
6740 win32 socket errors better.
6742 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
6743 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
6746 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
6747 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
6748 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
6749 so we don't see those messages days later.
6751 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
6752 - Make tor-resolve work again.
6753 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
6754 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
6757 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
6758 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
6759 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
6760 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
6762 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
6763 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
6764 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
6767 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
6768 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
6769 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
6770 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
6771 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
6772 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
6773 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
6774 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
6775 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
6777 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
6778 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
6779 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
6780 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
6782 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
6783 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
6786 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
6787 hibernation properties by
6788 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
6789 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
6790 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
6791 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
6792 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
6793 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
6794 get back to normal.)
6795 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
6797 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
6798 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
6799 to fill the last cell completely.
6800 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
6803 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
6804 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
6805 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
6806 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
6807 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
6808 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
6809 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
6810 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
6811 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
6812 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
6813 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
6815 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
6816 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
6817 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
6818 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
6819 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
6820 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
6821 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
6822 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
6824 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
6825 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
6826 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
6827 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
6828 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
6829 have it on start-up.
6832 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
6833 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
6834 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
6835 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
6836 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
6837 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
6838 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
6839 configuration to torrc.
6840 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
6841 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
6842 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
6843 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
6844 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
6846 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
6847 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
6848 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
6849 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
6850 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
6851 log more informatively.
6852 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
6853 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
6854 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
6855 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
6856 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
6857 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
6858 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
6859 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
6860 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
6861 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
6862 from each other, to hinder linkability.
6865 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
6866 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
6867 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
6868 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
6869 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
6870 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
6871 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
6873 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
6874 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
6875 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
6876 they ran out of file descriptors.
6877 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
6878 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
6879 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
6880 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
6881 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
6882 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
6883 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
6885 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
6888 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
6889 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
6890 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
6891 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
6892 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
6893 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
6894 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
6895 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
6896 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
6897 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
6898 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
6899 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
6900 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
6901 with the control port.
6902 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
6903 use in authenticating to the control interface.
6904 - New log format in config:
6905 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
6906 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
6909 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
6910 from their dirserver.
6911 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
6913 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
6914 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
6915 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
6916 them act more like real nodes.
6917 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
6918 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
6920 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
6921 nickname to its identity key.
6922 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
6923 not on the command line.
6924 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
6925 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
6926 1024) file descriptors.
6928 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
6929 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
6931 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
6932 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
6933 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
6936 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
6937 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
6938 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
6939 exit policy, not reject *:*.
6940 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
6941 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
6942 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
6943 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
6944 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
6945 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
6946 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
6949 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
6950 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
6951 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
6952 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
6953 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
6954 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
6955 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
6958 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
6959 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
6960 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
6961 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
6962 the ones we find in directories.)
6963 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
6965 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
6966 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
6968 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
6969 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
6970 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
6972 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
6973 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
6974 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
6975 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
6977 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
6978 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
6979 any more exit policy lines.
6982 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
6983 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
6984 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
6985 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
6986 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
6987 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
6988 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
6989 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
6990 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
6991 will be able to get a directory.
6992 - Http proxy support
6993 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
6994 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
6995 be routed through this host.
6996 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
6997 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
6998 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
6999 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
7002 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
7004 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
7005 clients/servers with an open dirport.
7006 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
7007 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
7008 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
7009 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
7010 intermittent connections.
7011 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
7012 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
7014 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
7015 in reporting stats locally.
7016 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
7017 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
7018 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
7021 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
7023 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
7024 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
7027 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
7029 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
7030 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
7031 if you don't want it open.
7032 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
7033 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
7034 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
7035 intermittent connections.
7036 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
7038 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
7039 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
7040 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
7041 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
7042 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
7043 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
7044 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
7045 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
7046 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
7047 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
7048 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
7049 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
7050 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
7051 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
7052 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
7053 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
7056 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
7057 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
7058 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
7059 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
7060 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
7062 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
7064 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
7065 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
7066 specified in HTTP 1.0.
7067 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
7068 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
7069 than once per minute.
7070 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
7071 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
7074 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
7075 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
7078 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
7079 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
7080 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
7081 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
7084 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
7085 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
7087 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
7088 don't put it into the client dns cache.
7089 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
7090 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
7091 until we get our next directory.
7093 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
7094 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
7095 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
7096 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
7097 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
7098 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
7099 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
7100 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
7101 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
7102 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
7103 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
7105 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
7107 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
7108 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
7110 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
7111 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
7112 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
7114 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
7116 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
7117 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
7118 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
7119 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
7120 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
7121 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
7122 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
7123 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
7126 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
7127 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
7128 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
7129 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
7132 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
7133 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
7134 ask them to resolve the host "".
7137 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
7138 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
7139 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
7140 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
7141 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
7142 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
7143 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
7144 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
7145 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
7146 clients don't use this yet.)
7147 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
7148 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
7149 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
7150 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
7151 for pointing out this bug.)
7152 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
7153 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
7154 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
7155 kazaa, gnutella ports.
7156 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
7158 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
7159 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
7160 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
7161 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
7162 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
7163 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
7164 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
7165 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
7166 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
7168 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
7169 that's still handshaking.
7170 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
7171 you'll choose it for your path.
7172 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
7173 end relay cell, etc.
7174 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
7175 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
7176 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
7179 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
7180 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
7182 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
7183 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
7184 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
7185 list to decide who's running or verified.
7186 - Bugfixes and features:
7187 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
7188 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
7189 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
7190 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
7191 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
7192 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
7194 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
7195 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
7196 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
7197 know you might want to get it verified.
7198 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
7201 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
7203 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
7204 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
7205 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
7206 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
7209 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
7210 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
7211 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
7212 hadn't heard of before.
7215 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
7216 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
7217 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
7218 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
7219 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
7220 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
7221 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
7222 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
7223 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
7224 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
7225 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
7226 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
7227 - Directory caching.
7228 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
7229 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
7230 directory they've pulled down.
7231 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
7232 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
7233 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
7234 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
7235 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
7236 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
7237 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
7239 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
7240 This isn't used yet.
7241 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
7242 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
7243 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
7244 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
7245 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
7246 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
7247 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
7248 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
7249 - File and name management:
7250 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
7251 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
7253 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
7254 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
7255 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
7256 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
7257 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
7258 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
7259 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
7261 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
7262 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
7263 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
7264 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
7265 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
7267 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
7268 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
7269 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
7270 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
7271 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
7272 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
7273 - New docs in the tarball:
7275 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
7278 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
7279 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
7280 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
7283 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
7284 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
7285 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
7288 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
7289 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
7292 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
7293 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
7294 - Make it build on Win32 again.
7295 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
7296 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
7300 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
7302 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
7303 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
7304 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
7305 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
7306 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
7307 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
7308 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
7309 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
7310 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
7311 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
7314 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
7317 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
7318 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
7319 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
7320 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
7322 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
7323 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
7324 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
7326 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
7327 hidden service per 15-minute period.
7328 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
7329 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
7330 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
7331 o Fixes for security bugs:
7332 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
7333 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
7334 a trusted dirserver.
7336 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
7337 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
7338 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
7339 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
7340 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
7341 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
7342 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
7343 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
7344 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
7345 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
7347 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
7348 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
7349 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
7350 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
7352 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
7353 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
7354 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
7355 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
7356 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
7357 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
7358 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
7359 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
7360 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
7361 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
7362 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
7363 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
7364 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
7367 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
7368 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
7369 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
7370 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
7373 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
7374 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
7375 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
7376 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
7377 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
7378 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
7379 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
7383 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
7387 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
7388 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
7389 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
7390 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
7391 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
7393 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
7396 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
7397 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
7398 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
7399 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
7400 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
7401 o Better debugging for tls errors
7402 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
7403 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
7404 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
7405 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
7406 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
7407 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
7408 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
7409 o win32's close can't close a socket.
7412 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
7413 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
7414 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
7415 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
7416 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
7417 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
7418 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
7419 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
7420 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
7421 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
7422 just close the circ.
7423 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
7424 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
7425 (this was quite rare).
7428 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
7429 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
7430 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
7431 if you decrypted them correctly.
7432 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
7433 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
7434 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
7437 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
7438 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
7439 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
7440 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
7441 a second one and it works.
7442 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
7443 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
7444 alice would just have to wait to time out.
7445 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
7446 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
7447 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
7448 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
7449 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
7450 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
7451 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
7452 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
7453 i'd still like to find the bug though.
7454 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
7456 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
7460 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
7461 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
7462 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
7463 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
7464 he retries a couple of times
7465 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
7466 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
7467 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
7468 too long (they were sticking around forever).
7469 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
7473 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
7474 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
7475 - make hup work again
7476 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
7477 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
7478 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
7479 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
7480 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
7481 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
7483 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
7484 o changes from 0.0.5:
7485 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
7486 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
7487 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
7488 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
7489 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
7491 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
7492 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
7493 in-memory directories too
7496 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
7497 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
7500 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
7502 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
7503 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
7504 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
7505 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
7508 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
7512 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
7513 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
7515 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
7516 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
7517 but that aren't warnings
7520 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
7521 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
7522 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
7523 the dns farm to do it.
7524 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
7525 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
7527 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
7528 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
7529 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
7532 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
7533 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
7534 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
7535 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
7536 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
7537 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
7538 expect it to have a nickname.
7539 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
7540 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
7543 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
7544 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
7548 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
7549 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
7550 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
7551 - include missing header fcntl.h
7552 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
7553 - deal with hardware word alignment
7554 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
7555 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
7556 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
7557 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
7558 by kill -USR1 currently.
7559 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
7560 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
7561 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
7564 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
7565 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
7566 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
7569 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
7571 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
7572 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
7573 - And fix a few endian issues.
7576 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
7578 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
7579 try that circuit again: try a new one.
7580 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
7581 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
7582 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
7583 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
7584 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
7585 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
7587 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
7588 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
7589 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
7591 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
7593 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
7594 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
7595 side isn't reading right then.
7596 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
7598 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
7599 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
7600 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
7603 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
7605 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
7606 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
7609 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
7613 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
7615 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
7616 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
7617 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
7618 connection is finished.
7619 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
7620 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
7621 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
7622 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
7623 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
7624 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
7625 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
7626 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
7627 rather than warn and continue.
7628 - Make --version work
7629 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
7632 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
7634 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
7636 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
7637 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
7639 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
7640 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
7641 so you can collect coredumps there.
7643 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
7644 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
7645 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
7646 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
7647 dns cache actually gets populated.
7648 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
7649 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
7650 end cell down it first.
7651 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
7652 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
7655 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
7657 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
7658 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
7660 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
7661 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
7662 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
7663 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
7664 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
7665 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
7667 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
7669 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
7670 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
7671 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
7672 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
7673 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
7674 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
7676 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
7677 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
7680 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
7682 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
7683 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
7684 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
7685 tor. It even has a man page.
7686 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
7687 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
7688 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
7689 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
7691 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
7693 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
7696 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
7698 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
7700 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
7701 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
7702 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
7703 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
7704 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
7705 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
7706 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
7707 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
7708 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
7709 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
7710 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
7712 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
7713 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
7716 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
7718 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
7719 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
7722 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
7724 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
7725 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
7726 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
7727 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
7728 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
7729 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
7730 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
7731 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
7732 logfile so you know it's working.
7733 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
7734 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
7737 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
7739 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
7740 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
7741 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
7744 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
7746 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
7747 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
7748 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
7751 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
7752 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
7753 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
7755 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
7756 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
7758 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
7759 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
7760 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
7762 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
7763 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
7767 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
7769 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
7770 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
7771 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
7774 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
7775 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
7776 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
7777 - Add port ranges to exit policies
7778 - Add a conservative default exit policy
7779 - Warn if you're running tor as root
7780 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
7781 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
7782 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
7783 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
7785 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
7788 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
7789 o Robustness and bugfixes:
7790 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
7791 really screw things up.
7792 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
7794 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
7795 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
7797 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
7798 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
7799 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
7800 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
7801 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
7802 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
7805 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
7808 - Change default loglevel to warn.
7809 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
7810 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
7812 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
7815 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
7816 o Robustness and bugfixes:
7817 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
7818 - to get ownership/permissions right
7819 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
7820 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
7821 pull down a directory again
7822 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
7823 causing server crashes
7824 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
7825 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
7826 - exit if bind() fails
7827 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
7828 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
7829 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
7830 - fix minor bias in PRNG
7831 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
7834 - Wrote the design document (woo)
7836 o Circuit building and exit policies:
7837 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
7839 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
7840 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
7841 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
7842 exists, rather than failing
7843 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
7844 which AP connections are standing by
7845 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
7846 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
7847 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
7849 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
7850 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
7853 - APPort is now called SocksPort
7854 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
7856 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
7857 hardcoded (for dirservers)
7858 - Reloads config on HUP
7859 - Usage info on -h or --help
7860 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
7863 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
7864 o General stability:
7865 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
7866 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
7867 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
7868 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
7869 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
7870 to take down the network when I approve a new router
7871 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
7874 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
7875 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
7877 o Autoconf improvements:
7878 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
7879 - Make install now works
7880 - create var/lib/tor on make install
7881 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
7882 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
7884 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
7885 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
7886 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
7887 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup