1 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable
2 release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the
3 changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
5 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
6 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
7 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
8 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
9 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
11 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
12 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
13 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
15 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
16 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
17 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
18 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
19 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
21 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
22 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
23 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
24 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
25 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
28 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
29 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
30 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
31 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
33 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
34 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
35 Implements ticket 27252.
36 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
37 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
38 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
39 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
40 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
41 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
42 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
44 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
45 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
46 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
47 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
49 o Minor features (geoip):
50 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
51 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
53 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
54 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
55 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
56 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
57 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
59 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
60 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
61 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
62 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
63 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
66 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
67 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
68 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
71 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
72 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
73 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
74 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
75 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
77 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
78 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
79 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
81 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
82 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
83 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
85 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
86 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
87 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
88 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
90 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
91 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
92 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
94 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
95 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
96 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
99 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
100 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
101 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
103 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
104 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
105 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
108 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
109 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
110 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
111 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
112 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
114 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
115 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
116 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
117 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
118 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
119 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
121 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
122 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
123 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
126 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
127 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
128 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
129 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
130 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
131 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
132 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
133 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
135 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
136 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
137 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
138 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
140 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
141 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
142 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
143 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
144 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
146 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
147 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
148 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
149 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
150 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
151 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
153 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
154 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
155 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
156 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
157 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
158 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
160 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
161 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
162 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
163 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
166 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
167 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
168 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
169 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
170 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
173 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
174 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
176 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
177 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
178 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
179 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
181 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
182 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
184 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
185 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
186 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
187 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
189 o Minor features (geoip):
190 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
191 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
193 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
194 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
195 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
196 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
198 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
199 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
200 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
201 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
202 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
203 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
204 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
205 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
208 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
209 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
210 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
211 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
213 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
214 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
215 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
216 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
218 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
219 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
220 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
221 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
223 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
224 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
225 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
226 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
227 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
229 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
230 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
231 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
234 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
235 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
236 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
237 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
238 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
240 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
241 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
242 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
245 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
246 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
247 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
248 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
250 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
251 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
252 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
254 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
255 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
256 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
259 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
260 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
261 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
262 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
263 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
265 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
266 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
267 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
270 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
271 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
273 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
274 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
275 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
276 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
278 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
279 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
281 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
282 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
283 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
284 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
286 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
287 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
290 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
291 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
292 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
293 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
295 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
296 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
297 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
298 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
300 o Minor features (geoip):
301 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
302 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
304 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
305 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
306 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
307 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
308 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
309 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
310 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
312 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
313 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
314 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
315 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
316 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
317 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
318 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
319 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
322 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
323 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
324 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
325 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
327 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
328 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
329 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
330 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
332 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
333 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
334 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
335 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
336 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
338 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
339 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
340 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
341 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
342 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
344 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
345 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
346 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
349 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
350 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
351 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
352 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
353 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
355 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
356 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
357 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
360 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
361 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
362 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
365 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
366 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
367 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
370 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
371 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
373 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
374 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
375 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
376 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
378 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
379 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
380 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
381 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
383 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
384 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
385 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
387 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
388 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
389 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
390 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
391 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
392 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
393 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
396 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
397 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
398 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
399 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
400 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
402 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
403 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
404 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
405 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
406 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
408 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
409 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
410 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
413 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
414 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
416 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
417 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
418 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
419 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
421 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
422 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
423 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
424 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
426 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
427 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
428 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
430 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
431 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
432 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
433 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
435 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
436 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
439 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
440 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
441 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
442 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
444 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
445 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
446 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
447 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
449 o Minor features (geoip):
450 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
451 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
453 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
454 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
455 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
456 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
457 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
458 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
459 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
461 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
462 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
463 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
464 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
465 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
466 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
467 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
468 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
471 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
472 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
473 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
474 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
476 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
477 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
478 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
479 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
481 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
482 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
483 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
484 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
485 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
487 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
488 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
489 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
490 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
491 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
493 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
494 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
495 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
498 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
499 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
500 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
501 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
503 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
504 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
505 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
506 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
507 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
509 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
510 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
511 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
514 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
515 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
516 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
519 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
520 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
521 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
524 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
525 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
526 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
527 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
529 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
530 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
531 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
534 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
535 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
537 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
538 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
539 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
540 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
541 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
542 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
543 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
545 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
546 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
547 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
548 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
549 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
551 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
552 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
553 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
554 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
556 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
557 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
558 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
560 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
561 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
562 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
563 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
564 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
565 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
566 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
569 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
570 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
571 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
572 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
573 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
575 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
576 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
577 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
578 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
579 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
581 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
582 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
583 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
586 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
587 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
588 compilation and portability fixes.
590 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
591 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
592 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
593 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
594 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
595 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
596 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
597 our anti-denial-of-service code.
599 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.9. For a list of only the changes
600 since 0.3.4.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
602 o New system requirements:
603 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
604 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
605 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
606 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
608 o Major features (directory authority, modularization):
609 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
610 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
611 To disable the module, the configure option
612 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
613 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
615 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
616 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
617 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
618 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
619 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
620 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
621 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
622 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
623 events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
624 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
625 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
627 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
628 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
629 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
630 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
631 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
632 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
633 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
634 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
635 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
636 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
637 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
638 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
639 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
640 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
641 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
642 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
643 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
644 Tor's uptime (26009).
646 o Minor features (accounting):
647 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
648 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
649 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
650 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
652 o Minor features (bug workaround):
653 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
654 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
655 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
657 o Minor features (code quality):
658 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
659 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
662 o Minor features (compatibility):
663 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
664 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
665 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
666 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
667 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
668 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
670 o Minor features (compilation):
671 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
672 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
673 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
674 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
675 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
676 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
677 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
678 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
681 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
682 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
683 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
684 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
685 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
686 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
688 o Minor features (configuration):
689 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
690 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
691 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
692 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
693 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
695 o Minor features (continuous integration):
696 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
697 Implements ticket 27449.
698 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
699 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
701 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
702 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
704 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
705 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
706 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
707 Implements ticket 27275.
708 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
709 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
710 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
711 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
712 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
714 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
715 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
718 o Minor features (control port):
719 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
720 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
721 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
722 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
723 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
724 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
725 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
726 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
727 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
728 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
730 o Minor features (controller):
731 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
732 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
733 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
735 o Minor features (directory authorities):
736 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
737 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
738 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
739 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
740 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
741 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
743 o Minor features (directory authority):
744 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
745 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
748 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
749 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
750 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
751 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
753 o Minor features (entry guards):
754 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
755 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
757 o Minor features (geoip):
758 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
759 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
761 o Minor features (performance):
762 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
763 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
764 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
765 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
767 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
768 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
770 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
771 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
773 o Minor features (testing):
774 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
775 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
777 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
778 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
779 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
780 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
781 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
782 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
784 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
785 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
786 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
787 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
788 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
790 o Minor features (unit tests):
791 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
792 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
793 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
796 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
797 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
798 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
799 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
800 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
801 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
803 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
804 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
805 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
806 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
808 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
809 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
810 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
811 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
812 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
814 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
815 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
816 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
817 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
818 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
819 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
820 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
821 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
823 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
824 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
825 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
826 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
827 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
828 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
829 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
830 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
832 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
833 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
834 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
836 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
837 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
838 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
839 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
841 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
842 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
843 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
844 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
845 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
847 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
848 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
849 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
850 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
851 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
852 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
853 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
854 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
855 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
856 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
857 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
858 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
860 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
861 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
862 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
865 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
866 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
867 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
870 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
871 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
872 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
873 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
874 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
875 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
878 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
879 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
880 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
881 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
882 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
883 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
884 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
886 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
887 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
888 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
889 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
891 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
892 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
893 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
894 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
895 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
897 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
898 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
899 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
902 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
903 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
904 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
906 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
907 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
909 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
910 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
911 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
912 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
913 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
915 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
916 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
917 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
919 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
920 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
921 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
922 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
923 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
926 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
927 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
928 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
929 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
931 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
932 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
933 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
934 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
935 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
936 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
937 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
939 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
940 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
942 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
943 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
944 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
945 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
946 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
948 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
949 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
950 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
951 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
952 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
954 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
955 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
956 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
957 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
959 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
960 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
961 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
962 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
965 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
966 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
967 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
968 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
969 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
970 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
971 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
972 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
973 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
974 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
976 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
977 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
978 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
979 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
980 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
981 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
982 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
984 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
985 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
986 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
987 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
988 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
990 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
991 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
992 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
995 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
996 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
997 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
998 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
999 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1001 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
1002 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
1003 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
1004 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
1005 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1006 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
1007 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
1010 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
1011 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
1012 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
1013 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
1014 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1016 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
1017 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
1018 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
1019 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
1020 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
1022 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
1023 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
1024 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
1025 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
1026 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
1027 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1029 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
1030 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
1031 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1033 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1034 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
1035 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
1036 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1037 - We remove the PortForwsrding and PortForwardingHelper options,
1038 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
1039 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
1040 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
1042 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
1043 confusing we renamed some functions and
1044 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
1045 router_should_check_reachability() and
1046 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
1047 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
1048 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
1049 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
1050 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
1052 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
1053 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
1055 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
1056 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
1057 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1058 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
1059 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
1060 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
1061 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
1062 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
1063 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
1064 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
1065 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
1066 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
1067 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
1068 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
1069 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
1070 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1071 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
1072 Closes ticket 25766.
1073 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
1074 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
1075 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
1076 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
1077 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
1078 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
1079 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
1080 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
1081 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
1082 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
1083 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1084 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
1085 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
1086 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
1088 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
1089 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
1090 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
1091 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
1092 before. Closes ticket 26016.
1093 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
1094 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
1095 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
1096 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
1098 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
1099 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
1100 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
1101 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1103 o Deprecated features:
1104 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
1105 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
1106 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
1107 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
1108 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
1109 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
1112 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
1113 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
1114 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
1115 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
1116 24378 and proposal 290.
1117 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
1118 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
1119 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
1120 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
1121 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
1122 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
1123 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
1124 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
1125 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
1126 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
1127 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
1128 their local router. Closes 25409.
1129 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
1130 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
1131 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
1132 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
1133 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
1134 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
1135 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
1136 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
1137 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
1138 Closes ticket 25268.
1141 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
1142 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
1143 bridge relays should upgrade.
1145 o Directory authority changes:
1146 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
1147 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
1148 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
1151 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
1152 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
1153 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
1156 o Directory authority changes:
1157 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
1158 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
1159 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
1161 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
1162 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
1163 Closes ticket 26343.
1165 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1166 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
1167 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
1168 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
1169 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1171 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1172 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
1173 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
1175 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
1176 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
1177 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
1178 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
1180 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
1181 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
1182 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
1184 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1185 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
1186 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
1187 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
1188 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
1189 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
1191 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
1192 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
1193 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
1194 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
1196 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1197 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
1198 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
1201 o Minor features (geoip):
1202 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1203 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
1205 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1206 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
1207 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
1208 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
1209 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1211 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1212 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
1213 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1215 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1216 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
1217 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
1218 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
1219 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1220 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
1221 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
1222 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
1225 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
1226 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
1227 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
1228 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
1229 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
1230 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
1232 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
1233 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
1234 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
1235 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
1236 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
1238 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1239 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
1240 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
1241 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
1242 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
1244 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1245 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
1246 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
1249 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
1250 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
1251 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1253 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
1254 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
1255 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
1256 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
1258 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1259 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
1260 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1261 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
1262 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
1263 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
1264 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1266 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
1267 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
1268 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
1269 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
1272 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1273 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
1274 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1276 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
1277 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
1278 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1280 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
1281 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
1282 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
1283 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
1286 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
1287 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
1288 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
1289 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
1291 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1292 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
1293 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
1295 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
1296 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
1297 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
1300 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
1301 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
1302 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
1305 o Directory authority changes:
1306 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
1307 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
1308 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
1310 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
1311 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
1312 Closes ticket 26343.
1314 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1315 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
1316 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
1317 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
1318 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1320 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
1321 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
1322 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
1323 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
1325 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1326 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
1327 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
1328 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
1329 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
1330 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
1332 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1333 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
1334 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
1337 o Minor features (geoip):
1338 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1339 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
1341 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1342 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
1343 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
1344 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
1345 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1347 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1348 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
1349 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1351 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1352 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
1353 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
1354 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
1357 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
1358 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
1359 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
1360 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
1361 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
1362 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
1364 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1365 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
1366 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
1367 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
1368 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
1370 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1371 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
1372 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
1375 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
1376 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
1377 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1379 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
1380 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
1381 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
1382 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
1384 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1385 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
1386 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
1388 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
1389 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
1390 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
1393 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
1394 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
1395 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
1397 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
1398 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
1399 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
1400 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
1402 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
1403 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
1404 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
1407 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1408 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
1409 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
1412 o Minor features (geoip):
1413 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1414 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
1416 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
1417 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
1418 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
1419 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
1421 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1422 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
1423 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
1424 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
1425 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
1428 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1429 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
1430 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
1431 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
1432 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
1434 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1435 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
1436 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
1437 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
1439 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1440 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
1441 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
1443 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
1444 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
1445 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
1446 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
1449 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1450 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
1451 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
1452 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1454 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1455 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
1456 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
1457 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
1458 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1459 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
1460 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
1461 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
1465 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
1466 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
1467 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
1469 o Directory authority changes:
1470 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
1471 Closes ticket 26343.
1473 o Minor features (geoip):
1474 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1475 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
1477 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
1478 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
1479 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
1480 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
1481 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
1482 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
1484 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
1485 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
1486 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1488 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
1489 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
1490 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
1491 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
1492 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1494 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
1495 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
1496 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1498 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1499 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
1500 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
1501 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
1502 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
1503 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
1506 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
1507 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
1508 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1510 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
1511 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
1512 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
1513 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
1514 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
1515 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
1517 Below are the changes since 0.3.2.10. For a list of only the changes
1518 since 0.3.3.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1520 o New system requirements:
1521 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
1522 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
1524 o Major features (embedding):
1525 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
1526 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
1527 Closes ticket 23684.
1528 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
1529 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
1530 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
1531 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
1532 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
1533 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
1535 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
1536 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
1537 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
1538 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements
1540 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
1541 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts,
1542 they are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor
1543 clients on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor
1544 clients that have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements
1546 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
1547 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
1550 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
1551 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
1552 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
1553 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
1554 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
1555 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
1556 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
1558 o Major features (onion services):
1559 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
1560 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
1561 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
1562 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
1563 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
1565 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
1566 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
1567 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
1568 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
1569 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
1570 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1572 o Major features (relay):
1573 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
1574 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
1575 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
1576 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
1577 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
1579 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
1580 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
1581 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
1582 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
1583 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
1584 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
1585 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
1586 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
1588 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1589 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
1590 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
1591 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
1592 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1594 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
1595 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
1596 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
1597 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
1598 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
1600 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1601 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
1602 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
1603 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1605 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
1606 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
1607 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
1608 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
1609 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
1610 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
1611 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
1612 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1614 o Major bugfixes (networking):
1615 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
1616 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
1617 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
1619 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1620 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
1621 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
1623 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
1624 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
1625 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
1626 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
1627 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
1628 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
1629 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
1631 o Major bugfixes (relay):
1632 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
1633 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
1634 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
1635 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
1637 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1638 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
1639 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
1642 o Minor features (cleanup):
1643 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
1644 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
1646 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1647 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
1648 Closes ticket 26006.
1650 o Minor features (config options):
1651 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
1652 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
1653 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
1656 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1657 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
1658 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
1660 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1661 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
1662 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
1663 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
1664 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
1665 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
1667 o Minor features (defensive programming):
1668 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
1669 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
1670 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
1671 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
1672 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
1673 once. Part of ticket 24337.
1674 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
1675 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
1676 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
1678 o Minor features (directory authority):
1679 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
1680 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
1682 o Minor features (embedding):
1683 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
1684 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
1685 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
1686 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
1687 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
1688 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
1689 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
1690 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
1691 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
1692 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside a
1693 separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
1694 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
1695 Closes ticket 23848.
1696 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
1697 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
1698 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
1700 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
1701 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
1702 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
1703 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
1704 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
1705 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
1706 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
1707 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
1710 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
1711 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
1712 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
1713 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
1714 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
1715 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
1716 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
1718 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
1719 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
1720 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
1721 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
1722 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
1723 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
1724 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
1725 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
1726 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
1727 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
1728 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
1729 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
1731 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
1732 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
1733 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
1735 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
1736 Implements ticket 24791.
1738 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
1739 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
1740 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
1741 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
1742 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
1743 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
1745 o Minor features (geoip):
1746 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
1747 database. Closes ticket 26104.
1749 o Minor features (heartbeat):
1750 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
1751 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
1754 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
1755 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
1756 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
1757 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
1758 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
1760 o Minor features (IPv6):
1761 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
1762 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
1763 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
1764 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
1765 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. Implements
1768 o Minor features (log messages):
1769 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
1770 information about memory usage from the different compression
1771 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
1772 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
1773 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
1774 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
1775 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
1777 o Minor features (logging):
1778 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
1779 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
1780 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
1783 o Minor features (performance):
1784 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
1785 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
1786 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
1787 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
1789 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
1790 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
1791 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
1792 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
1793 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
1794 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
1795 Implements ticket 24374.
1797 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
1798 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
1799 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
1800 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
1801 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
1803 o Minor features (performance, windows):
1804 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
1805 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
1806 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
1809 o Minor features (sandbox):
1810 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
1811 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
1812 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
1814 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
1815 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
1816 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
1817 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
1818 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
1820 o Minor features (testing):
1821 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
1824 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
1825 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
1826 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
1827 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
1828 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
1829 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
1830 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
1831 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
1832 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
1834 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
1835 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
1836 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
1837 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
1838 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
1839 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
1840 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
1841 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
1842 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
1845 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
1846 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
1847 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
1848 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
1850 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
1851 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
1852 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
1854 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
1855 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
1856 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
1857 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
1858 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
1860 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1861 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
1862 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
1865 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1866 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
1867 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
1868 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
1870 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1871 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
1872 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
1873 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1874 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
1875 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
1876 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1878 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
1879 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
1880 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
1881 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1883 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1884 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
1885 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
1886 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
1887 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1889 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
1890 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
1891 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
1892 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
1895 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
1896 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
1897 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
1898 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
1899 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
1901 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1902 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
1903 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
1904 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
1905 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
1908 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
1909 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
1910 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
1911 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
1912 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
1914 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
1915 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
1916 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
1919 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
1920 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
1921 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
1923 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
1924 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1925 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
1926 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
1927 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
1929 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
1930 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
1931 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
1932 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1934 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
1935 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
1936 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
1937 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
1938 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
1939 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
1941 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1942 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
1943 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
1944 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
1946 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1947 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
1948 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1950 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1951 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
1952 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
1953 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
1955 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
1956 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
1957 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old
1958 option still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix
1961 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
1962 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
1963 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
1964 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
1965 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1966 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
1969 o Minor bugfixes (network IPv6 test):
1970 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
1971 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
1972 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
1974 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
1975 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
1976 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
1978 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
1979 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service descriptor
1980 rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's valid-after
1981 time. Instead, log a warning message with extra information, so we
1982 can better hunt down the cause of this assertion. Fixes bug 25306;
1983 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1985 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1986 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
1987 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1988 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
1989 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
1990 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
1991 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1993 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1994 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
1995 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
1996 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
1998 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
1999 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
2000 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
2001 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
2002 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
2004 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
2005 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
2006 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
2007 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
2008 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
2009 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2011 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
2012 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
2013 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
2014 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
2015 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
2016 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
2017 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
2018 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
2019 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
2020 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
2021 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
2022 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
2024 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2025 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
2026 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2028 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
2029 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
2030 would call the Rust implementation of
2031 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
2032 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
2033 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
2034 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
2035 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2037 o Minor bugfixes (spelling):
2038 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
2039 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
2040 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
2042 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2043 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
2044 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
2045 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
2047 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
2048 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2050 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
2051 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
2052 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
2053 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
2054 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
2055 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
2057 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2058 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
2059 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
2060 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
2061 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
2063 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
2065 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
2066 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
2067 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
2069 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
2071 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
2072 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
2073 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
2074 "aruna1234" and teor.
2075 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
2076 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
2077 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
2078 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
2080 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
2081 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
2082 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
2083 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
2084 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
2085 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
2086 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
2087 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
2088 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
2089 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
2091 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
2092 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
2095 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
2097 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
2098 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
2099 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
2100 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
2102 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
2103 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
2104 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
2105 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
2107 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
2108 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
2109 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
2110 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
2111 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
2113 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
2114 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
2115 adding very little except for unit test.
2117 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
2118 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
2119 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
2120 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
2122 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
2123 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
2124 const. Implements ticket 24489.
2126 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2127 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
2128 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
2130 o Documentation (man page):
2131 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
2132 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
2135 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
2136 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
2137 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
2141 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
2142 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
2145 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
2146 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
2148 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
2149 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
2151 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
2154 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
2155 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
2156 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
2158 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
2159 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
2160 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
2161 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
2164 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2165 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
2166 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
2167 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
2170 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2171 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
2172 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
2173 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
2174 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
2175 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
2176 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
2177 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
2178 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
2179 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
2180 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
2181 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
2182 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
2184 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
2185 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
2186 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
2188 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
2189 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
2190 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
2191 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
2192 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
2193 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
2194 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
2196 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2197 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
2198 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2200 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
2201 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
2202 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
2203 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
2204 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
2205 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
2206 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2208 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2209 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
2210 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
2211 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
2213 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
2214 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
2215 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
2216 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
2218 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2219 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
2220 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
2221 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
2222 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
2223 Closes ticket 24978.
2225 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
2226 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
2227 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
2228 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
2229 information. Closes ticket 24801.
2230 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
2231 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
2232 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
2233 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
2235 o Minor features (geoip):
2236 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2239 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2240 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
2241 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
2242 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
2243 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
2245 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2246 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
2247 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
2248 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
2249 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
2251 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
2252 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
2253 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
2254 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
2255 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
2258 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
2259 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
2260 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
2261 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
2262 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
2263 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
2264 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
2265 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
2266 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
2267 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
2268 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
2271 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
2272 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
2273 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
2275 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
2276 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
2277 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
2280 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2281 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
2282 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
2283 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
2284 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
2285 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
2286 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
2288 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
2289 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
2290 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2291 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
2292 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
2293 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
2294 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
2295 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
2296 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
2299 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
2300 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
2301 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
2302 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
2303 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
2304 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2306 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2307 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
2308 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
2309 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2311 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
2312 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
2313 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
2314 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
2315 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
2318 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
2319 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
2320 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
2321 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
2322 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
2323 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2325 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
2326 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
2327 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
2328 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
2329 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
2330 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
2331 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
2332 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
2333 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
2334 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2335 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
2336 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
2338 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
2339 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
2340 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
2341 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2343 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
2344 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
2345 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
2346 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2348 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
2349 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
2350 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
2351 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
2354 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
2355 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
2356 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
2357 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
2358 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
2360 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2361 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
2363 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
2364 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2366 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2367 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
2368 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
2371 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
2372 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
2375 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
2376 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
2378 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
2379 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
2381 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
2384 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
2385 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
2386 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
2388 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2389 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
2390 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
2391 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
2394 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
2395 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
2396 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
2397 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
2398 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
2399 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
2400 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
2401 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
2402 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
2403 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
2404 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
2405 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
2406 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
2408 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
2409 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
2410 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
2411 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
2412 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
2413 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
2414 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
2415 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
2416 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
2418 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
2419 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
2420 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
2421 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
2422 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
2423 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
2424 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
2426 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
2427 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
2428 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
2429 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
2431 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
2432 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
2433 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
2434 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
2435 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
2436 Closes ticket 24978.
2438 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
2439 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
2440 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
2441 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
2443 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
2444 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
2445 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
2446 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
2447 information. Closes ticket 24801.
2448 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
2449 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
2450 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
2451 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
2453 o Minor features (geoip):
2454 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2457 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2458 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
2459 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
2461 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
2462 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
2463 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
2464 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
2465 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
2467 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
2468 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
2469 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
2470 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
2471 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
2473 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
2474 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
2475 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
2476 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
2477 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
2480 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2481 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
2482 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
2484 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2485 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
2486 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
2489 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2490 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
2491 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
2492 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
2493 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
2494 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
2495 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
2497 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
2498 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
2499 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
2500 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
2501 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
2504 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
2505 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
2506 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
2507 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
2508 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
2509 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2511 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
2512 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
2513 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
2514 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2516 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
2517 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
2518 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
2519 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
2520 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
2521 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
2522 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
2523 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
2524 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
2525 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2526 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
2527 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
2529 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
2530 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
2531 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
2532 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
2535 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2536 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
2537 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
2538 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
2539 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
2541 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2542 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
2544 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
2545 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2548 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
2549 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
2550 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
2553 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
2554 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
2556 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
2557 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
2558 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
2559 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
2560 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
2561 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
2564 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
2565 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
2567 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
2570 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
2571 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
2572 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
2573 the DoS mitigations.)
2575 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2576 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
2577 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
2578 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
2581 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2582 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
2583 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
2584 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2586 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2587 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
2588 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
2589 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
2590 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
2591 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
2592 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
2593 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
2594 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
2595 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
2596 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
2597 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
2598 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
2600 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
2601 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
2602 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
2603 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
2604 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
2605 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
2606 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
2607 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
2608 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
2609 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
2610 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2612 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2613 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
2614 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2616 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
2617 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
2618 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
2619 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
2620 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
2621 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
2622 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2624 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2625 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
2626 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
2627 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2629 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2630 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
2631 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
2632 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
2634 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2635 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
2636 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
2637 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
2638 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
2639 Closes ticket 24978.
2641 o Minor features (geoip):
2642 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2645 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2646 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
2647 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
2650 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2651 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
2652 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
2653 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
2654 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
2656 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2657 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
2658 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
2659 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
2660 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
2661 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
2662 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
2664 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2665 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
2666 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
2667 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
2668 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
2670 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
2671 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
2672 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
2673 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2675 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2676 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
2677 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
2678 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
2679 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2681 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2682 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
2683 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
2684 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2686 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
2687 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
2688 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
2689 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2691 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
2692 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
2693 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
2694 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2696 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2697 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
2699 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
2700 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2702 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
2703 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
2704 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
2706 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2707 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
2708 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
2709 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
2710 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2712 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2713 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
2714 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
2716 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
2717 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
2718 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
2722 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
2723 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
2725 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
2726 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
2727 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
2728 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
2729 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
2730 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
2732 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
2733 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
2734 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
2735 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
2736 with the 0.2.9 series.
2738 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.7. For a list of all
2739 changes since 0.3.2.8-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
2741 o Directory authority changes:
2742 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
2743 Closes ticket 23910.
2744 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
2745 Closes ticket 23592.
2746 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
2747 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
2748 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
2749 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
2750 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
2753 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
2754 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
2755 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
2756 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
2757 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
2758 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
2761 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
2762 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
2764 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
2767 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
2770 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
2772 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
2774 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
2776 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
2777 they are 56 characters long, as in
2778 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
2780 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
2781 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
2782 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
2783 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
2784 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
2787 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
2788 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
2789 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
2790 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
2791 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
2792 options. For more information, see our blog post at
2793 "https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest". Enjoy!
2795 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
2796 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
2797 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
2798 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
2799 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
2800 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
2801 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
2802 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
2803 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
2804 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
2805 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
2806 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
2808 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
2809 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
2810 more information, see the design paper at
2811 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
2812 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
2813 Closes ticket 12541. For more information, see our blog post at
2814 "https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell".
2816 o Major bugfixes (security, general):
2817 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
2818 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
2819 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
2820 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
2821 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
2822 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
2823 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
2825 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority):
2826 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
2827 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
2828 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
2831 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
2832 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
2833 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
2834 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
2835 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
2836 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
2837 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
2838 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
2839 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
2840 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
2841 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
2842 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
2845 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
2846 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
2847 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
2848 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
2849 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2850 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
2851 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
2852 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
2853 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
2855 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
2856 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
2857 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
2858 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
2859 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
2860 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
2861 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
2862 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
2863 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
2864 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
2865 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
2868 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
2869 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
2870 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
2871 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
2872 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
2873 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
2874 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
2876 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
2877 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
2878 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
2879 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
2880 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
2881 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
2884 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
2885 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
2886 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
2887 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
2889 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
2890 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
2891 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
2892 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
2894 o Minor features (bridge):
2895 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
2896 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
2897 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
2898 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
2899 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
2900 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
2901 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
2902 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
2903 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
2904 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
2905 related to ticket 23080.
2907 o Minor features (bug detection):
2908 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
2909 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
2910 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
2912 o Minor features (build, compilation):
2913 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
2914 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
2915 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
2916 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
2917 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
2918 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
2919 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
2920 Closes ticket 23643.
2922 o Minor features (client):
2923 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
2924 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
2925 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
2926 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
2927 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
2928 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
2929 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
2930 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
2931 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
2932 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
2933 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
2934 Resolves ticket 23670.
2936 o Minor features (command line):
2937 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
2938 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
2939 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
2941 o Minor features (control port):
2942 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
2943 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
2944 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
2946 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
2947 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
2949 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
2950 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
2951 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
2952 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
2953 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
2954 Closes ticket 23237.
2955 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
2956 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
2958 o Minor features (development support):
2959 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
2960 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
2961 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
2962 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
2963 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
2964 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
2966 o Minor features (directory authority):
2967 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
2968 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
2969 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
2970 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
2972 o Minor features (ed25519):
2973 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
2974 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
2975 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
2977 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
2978 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
2979 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
2981 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
2982 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
2983 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
2984 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
2985 information. Closes ticket 24801.
2986 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
2987 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
2988 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
2989 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
2991 o Minor features (geoip):
2992 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2995 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
2996 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
2997 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
2998 another program, regardless of the settings of
2999 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
3000 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
3001 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
3003 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3004 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
3005 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
3007 o Minor features (logging):
3008 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
3010 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
3011 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
3013 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
3014 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
3015 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
3016 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
3017 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
3018 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
3019 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
3020 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
3021 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
3022 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
3024 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
3025 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
3027 o Minor features (onion service, circuit, logging):
3028 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
3029 the circuit identifier(s).
3030 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
3031 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
3033 o Minor features (portability):
3034 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
3035 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
3037 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
3038 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
3039 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
3040 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
3042 o Minor features (relay):
3043 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
3044 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
3045 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
3046 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
3047 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
3048 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
3049 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
3050 results. Closes ticket 22731.
3052 o Minor features (relay statistics):
3053 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
3054 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
3055 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
3057 o Minor features (reverted deprecations):
3058 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
3059 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
3060 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
3061 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
3063 o Minor features (robustness):
3064 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
3065 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
3067 o Minor features (startup, safety):
3068 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
3069 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
3072 o Minor features (static analysis):
3073 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
3074 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
3077 o Minor features (testing):
3078 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
3079 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
3080 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
3081 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
3083 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
3084 onion service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
3085 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
3086 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 onion
3087 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
3089 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
3090 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
3091 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
3092 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
3093 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
3096 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
3097 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
3098 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
3101 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
3102 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
3103 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
3104 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
3105 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3106 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
3107 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
3108 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
3109 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3110 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
3111 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
3112 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
3113 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3115 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
3116 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
3117 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
3118 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3120 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
3121 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
3122 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
3123 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
3124 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
3125 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
3126 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
3127 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
3128 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3129 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
3130 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
3131 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
3132 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
3133 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
3134 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
3135 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
3136 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3138 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
3139 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
3140 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
3141 Coverity as CID 1415728.
3143 o Minor bugfixes (client):
3144 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
3145 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
3146 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3148 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
3149 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
3150 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
3151 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
3152 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
3153 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
3154 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
3155 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3157 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
3158 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
3159 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
3160 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
3161 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3162 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
3163 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
3164 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
3165 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
3166 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
3167 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
3168 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
3169 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
3170 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
3173 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
3174 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
3175 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
3178 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
3179 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
3180 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
3181 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
3183 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3184 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
3185 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
3188 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
3189 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
3190 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
3191 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
3193 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
3194 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
3195 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3196 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
3197 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
3198 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
3199 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
3200 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
3201 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
3204 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
3205 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
3206 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
3207 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
3208 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3210 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
3211 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
3212 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
3213 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
3214 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
3215 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
3217 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
3218 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
3221 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
3222 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
3223 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3224 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
3225 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
3226 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3228 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
3229 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
3230 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
3231 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3233 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
3234 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
3235 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
3236 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
3237 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
3238 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3240 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
3241 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
3242 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
3243 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
3244 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
3245 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
3246 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
3249 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
3250 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
3251 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
3252 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3254 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3255 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
3256 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
3257 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
3258 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3259 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
3260 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
3261 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
3262 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
3263 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
3265 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
3266 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
3267 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
3269 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
3270 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
3271 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
3273 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
3274 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
3275 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
3276 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
3277 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
3278 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
3280 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
3281 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
3282 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
3283 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
3284 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
3285 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3287 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
3288 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
3289 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3291 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
3292 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
3293 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
3294 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
3295 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
3298 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
3299 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
3300 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
3301 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
3302 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
3303 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3305 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3306 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
3307 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
3308 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
3309 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3310 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
3311 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
3313 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
3314 only fetch the service descriptor once.
3315 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
3316 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
3317 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3318 - When reloading configured onion services, copy all information
3319 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
3320 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
3321 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
3323 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
3324 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
3325 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
3326 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
3327 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
3328 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
3329 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
3330 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
3331 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
3332 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3333 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
3334 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
3336 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
3337 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
3338 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3339 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
3340 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
3341 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
3344 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
3345 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
3346 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
3347 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
3348 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
3349 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
3350 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
3351 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3352 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
3353 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
3354 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
3355 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3357 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3358 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
3359 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
3360 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
3361 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
3362 Closes ticket 24109.
3363 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
3364 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3365 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
3366 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
3368 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
3369 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
3371 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
3372 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
3373 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
3374 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
3375 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
3376 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
3377 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
3378 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
3379 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
3380 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
3381 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3383 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
3384 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
3385 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
3386 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3388 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3389 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
3390 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
3392 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
3393 function from the general code to handle channel state
3394 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
3395 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
3396 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
3397 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
3398 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
3399 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
3400 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
3401 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
3403 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
3404 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
3406 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
3407 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
3408 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
3409 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
3410 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
3411 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
3412 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
3413 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
3414 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
3415 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
3416 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
3417 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
3419 o Deprecated features:
3420 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
3421 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
3422 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
3423 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
3424 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
3425 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
3429 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
3430 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
3431 section. Closes ticket 24254.
3432 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
3433 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
3434 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
3435 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
3436 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
3437 Closes ticket 18736.
3438 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
3439 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
3440 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
3441 Closes ticket 15645.
3442 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
3443 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
3444 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
3445 file. Closes ticket 21148.
3448 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
3449 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
3450 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
3451 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
3452 Closes ticket 21031.
3453 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
3454 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
3457 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
3458 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
3459 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
3460 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
3462 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3463 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
3464 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
3465 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
3466 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
3467 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
3468 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
3469 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
3470 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
3471 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
3472 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
3474 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
3475 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
3476 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
3477 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
3478 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
3479 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
3480 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
3483 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3484 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
3485 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
3486 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
3487 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
3489 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3490 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
3491 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
3492 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
3493 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3494 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
3495 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
3496 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
3497 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
3499 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
3500 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
3501 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
3502 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
3503 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
3504 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
3507 o Minor features (bridge):
3508 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
3509 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
3510 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
3511 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
3514 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3515 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
3518 o Minor features (geoip):
3519 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3522 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
3523 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
3524 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
3525 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
3526 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3528 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
3529 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
3530 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3532 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3533 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
3534 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
3535 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
3536 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
3537 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3539 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
3540 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
3541 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
3544 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
3545 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
3546 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
3547 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
3548 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3551 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
3552 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
3553 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
3554 to another of the releases coming out today.
3556 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
3557 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
3558 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
3560 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3561 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
3562 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
3563 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
3564 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
3565 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
3566 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
3567 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
3568 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
3569 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
3570 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
3572 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
3573 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
3574 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
3575 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
3576 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
3577 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
3578 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
3581 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3582 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
3583 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
3584 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
3585 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
3587 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3588 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
3589 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
3590 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
3591 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3592 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
3593 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
3594 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
3595 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
3597 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
3598 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
3599 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
3600 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
3601 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
3602 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
3605 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
3606 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
3607 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
3608 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
3609 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
3610 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
3612 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
3613 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
3614 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
3615 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
3616 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
3619 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3620 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
3623 o Minor features (geoip):
3624 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3627 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
3628 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
3629 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
3630 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
3631 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3633 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
3634 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
3635 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3637 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3638 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
3639 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
3640 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
3641 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
3642 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3644 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
3645 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
3646 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
3647 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
3648 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3650 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
3651 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
3652 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
3655 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
3656 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
3657 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
3658 to another of the releases coming out today.
3660 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
3661 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
3662 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
3663 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
3664 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
3665 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
3668 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3669 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
3670 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
3671 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
3672 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
3673 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
3674 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
3675 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
3676 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
3677 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
3678 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
3680 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
3681 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
3682 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
3683 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
3684 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
3685 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
3686 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
3689 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3690 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
3691 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
3692 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
3693 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
3695 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3696 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
3697 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
3698 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
3699 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3700 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
3702 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
3703 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
3704 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
3705 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
3706 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
3709 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3710 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
3713 o Minor features (geoip):
3714 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3717 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
3718 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
3719 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
3720 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
3721 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
3722 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
3724 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
3725 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
3726 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
3727 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
3728 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3730 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
3731 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
3732 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3734 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3735 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
3736 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
3737 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
3738 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
3739 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3741 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
3742 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
3743 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
3744 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
3745 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3747 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
3748 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
3749 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
3752 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
3753 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
3754 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
3755 to another of the releases coming out today.
3757 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
3758 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
3759 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
3761 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3762 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
3763 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
3764 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
3765 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
3766 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
3767 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
3768 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
3769 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
3770 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
3771 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
3772 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
3773 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
3774 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
3775 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
3778 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3779 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
3780 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
3781 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
3782 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
3784 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3785 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
3786 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
3787 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
3788 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
3791 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
3792 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
3793 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
3794 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
3795 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
3798 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3799 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
3802 o Minor features (geoip):
3803 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3806 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
3807 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
3808 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
3811 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
3812 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
3813 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
3814 to another of the releases coming out today.
3816 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
3817 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
3818 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
3820 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3821 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
3822 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
3823 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
3824 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
3825 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
3826 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
3827 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
3828 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
3829 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
3830 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
3831 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
3832 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
3833 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
3834 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
3837 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3838 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
3839 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
3840 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
3841 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3842 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
3844 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
3845 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
3846 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
3847 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
3848 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
3851 o Minor features (geoip):
3852 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3856 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
3857 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
3858 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
3860 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
3861 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
3862 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
3864 o Directory authority changes:
3865 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
3866 Closes ticket 23910.
3867 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
3868 Closes ticket 23592.
3870 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
3871 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
3872 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
3873 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
3874 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
3876 o Minor features (geoip):
3877 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3880 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
3881 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
3882 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
3883 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
3884 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
3885 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
3886 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
3887 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
3888 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
3890 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
3891 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
3892 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
3893 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
3894 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
3895 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
3896 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
3897 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
3898 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
3901 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
3902 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
3903 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
3904 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
3906 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
3907 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
3908 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
3910 o Directory authority changes:
3911 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
3912 Closes ticket 23910.
3913 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
3914 Closes ticket 23592.
3916 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3917 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
3918 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
3919 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3921 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3922 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
3923 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
3924 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
3925 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
3927 o Minor features (geoip):
3928 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3932 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
3933 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
3934 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
3935 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
3937 o Directory authority changes:
3938 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
3939 Closes ticket 23910.
3940 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
3941 Closes ticket 23592.
3943 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3944 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
3945 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
3946 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3948 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3949 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
3950 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
3951 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
3952 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
3954 o Minor features (geoip):
3955 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3958 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
3959 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
3960 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
3961 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
3962 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
3963 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
3964 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
3965 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
3968 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
3969 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
3970 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3972 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
3973 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
3974 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
3975 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
3976 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
3977 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
3978 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
3981 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
3982 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
3983 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
3984 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
3986 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
3987 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
3988 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
3990 o Directory authority changes:
3991 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
3992 Closes ticket 23910.
3993 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
3994 Closes ticket 23592.
3996 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3997 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
3998 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
3999 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4001 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4002 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
4003 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
4004 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
4005 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
4007 o Minor features (geoip):
4008 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4011 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4012 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
4013 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
4014 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
4015 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
4016 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
4017 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
4018 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
4021 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4022 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
4023 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
4024 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4026 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
4027 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
4028 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
4030 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
4031 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
4032 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
4033 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
4034 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
4035 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4036 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
4039 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
4040 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
4041 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
4042 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
4043 a new directory authority, Bastet.
4045 o Directory authority changes:
4046 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
4047 Closes ticket 23910.
4048 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
4049 Closes ticket 23592.
4051 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4052 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
4053 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
4054 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4056 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4057 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
4058 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
4059 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
4060 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
4062 o Minor features (geoip):
4063 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4066 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4067 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
4068 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
4069 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
4071 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4072 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
4073 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
4076 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
4077 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
4078 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
4080 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4081 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
4082 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
4083 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4085 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
4086 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
4087 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
4089 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4090 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
4091 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
4095 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
4096 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
4099 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
4100 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
4101 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
4102 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
4104 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
4105 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
4106 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
4107 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
4109 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4110 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
4111 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
4112 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
4113 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
4116 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4119 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
4120 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
4121 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
4124 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
4125 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
4126 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
4127 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
4128 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
4129 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
4130 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
4131 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
4132 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
4134 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4135 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
4136 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
4137 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
4138 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
4139 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
4140 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
4141 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
4142 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
4145 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
4146 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
4149 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
4150 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
4151 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
4152 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
4154 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
4155 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
4156 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
4157 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
4158 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
4159 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
4160 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
4162 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
4163 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
4164 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
4165 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
4167 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
4168 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
4169 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4171 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
4172 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
4173 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4174 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
4176 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4177 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
4178 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
4179 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
4180 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
4182 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
4183 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
4184 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
4185 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
4187 o Minor features (geoip):
4188 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4191 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
4192 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
4193 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
4194 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
4196 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4197 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
4198 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4199 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
4200 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4201 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
4202 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
4203 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4205 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
4206 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
4207 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
4209 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
4210 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
4211 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
4214 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
4215 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
4216 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
4217 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
4218 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4220 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4221 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
4222 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
4223 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
4224 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
4225 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4227 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
4228 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
4229 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
4230 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
4231 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
4232 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
4233 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
4234 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
4235 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
4237 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4238 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
4239 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
4240 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4242 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4243 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
4244 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4246 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
4247 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
4248 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
4249 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
4250 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4252 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
4253 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
4254 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
4257 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
4258 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
4259 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
4260 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
4261 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
4263 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4264 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
4265 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
4266 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
4267 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
4268 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
4269 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
4270 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
4271 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
4274 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
4275 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
4278 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
4279 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
4280 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
4281 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
4283 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
4284 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
4285 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
4286 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
4289 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4292 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
4293 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
4294 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
4296 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
4297 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
4298 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
4299 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
4300 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4302 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4303 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
4304 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
4305 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4307 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
4308 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
4309 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
4311 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
4312 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
4313 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
4314 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
4317 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
4318 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
4320 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
4321 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
4322 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
4323 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
4324 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
4325 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
4326 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
4328 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
4329 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
4330 disabled. For more information, see
4331 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
4333 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
4334 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
4335 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
4336 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
4337 with the 0.2.9 series.
4339 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.0. For a list of all
4340 changes since 0.3.1.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
4343 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
4344 pkg-config tool at build time.
4346 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
4347 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
4348 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
4349 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4350 This is also tracked as TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
4352 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
4353 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
4354 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
4355 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
4356 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
4357 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
4358 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
4359 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
4360 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
4362 o Major features (directory protocol):
4363 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
4364 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
4365 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
4366 now request these documents when available. When both client and
4367 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
4368 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
4369 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
4370 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
4371 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
4372 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
4373 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
4374 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
4375 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
4376 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
4377 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
4378 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
4379 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
4381 o Major features (experimental):
4382 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
4383 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
4384 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
4385 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
4386 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
4387 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
4388 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
4390 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
4391 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
4392 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
4393 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
4394 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
4395 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
4398 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
4399 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
4400 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
4401 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
4402 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
4403 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
4404 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
4405 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
4406 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
4407 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
4410 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
4411 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
4412 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
4413 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4414 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
4415 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
4416 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
4419 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
4420 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
4421 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
4422 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
4423 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
4424 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
4426 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
4427 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
4428 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
4429 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
4430 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
4431 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
4432 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
4433 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
4434 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
4435 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
4436 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
4437 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
4438 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
4439 Otherwise it is at info.
4441 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
4442 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
4443 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
4444 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4445 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
4446 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
4447 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
4449 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
4450 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
4451 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4452 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
4454 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
4455 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
4456 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
4457 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
4458 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
4460 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
4461 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
4462 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
4463 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
4464 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
4465 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
4466 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
4469 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
4470 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
4471 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
4472 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
4473 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
4474 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
4475 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
4476 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4477 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
4478 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
4479 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
4480 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
4481 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
4484 o Minor features (security, windows):
4485 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
4486 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
4487 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
4488 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
4489 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
4491 o Minor features (bridge authority):
4492 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
4493 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
4495 o Minor features (code style):
4496 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
4497 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
4498 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
4500 o Minor features (config options):
4501 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
4502 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
4503 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
4504 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
4505 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
4506 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
4507 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
4508 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
4510 o Minor features (controller):
4511 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
4512 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
4514 o Minor features (defaults):
4515 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
4516 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
4517 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
4518 can. Closes ticket 21407.
4519 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
4520 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
4521 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
4522 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
4523 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
4524 Closes ticket 21641.
4526 o Minor features (defensive programming):
4527 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
4528 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
4529 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
4532 o Minor features (diagnostic):
4533 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
4534 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
4535 attempt for bug 23105.
4536 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
4537 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
4538 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
4539 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
4540 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
4541 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
4542 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
4544 o Minor features (directory authority):
4545 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
4546 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
4547 Closes ticket 22348.
4549 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
4550 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
4551 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
4552 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
4553 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
4556 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
4557 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
4558 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
4559 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
4560 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
4561 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
4562 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
4564 o Minor features (geoip):
4565 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4568 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
4569 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
4570 introduction points than specified in
4571 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
4572 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
4573 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
4574 21594; closes ticket 21622.
4575 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
4576 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
4577 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
4578 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
4580 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4581 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
4582 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
4583 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
4584 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
4585 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
4586 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
4587 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
4588 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
4589 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
4591 o Minor features (logging):
4592 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
4593 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
4594 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
4595 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
4598 o Minor features (performance):
4599 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
4600 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
4602 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
4603 speed some controller functions.
4605 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
4606 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
4607 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
4608 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
4610 o Minor features (relay, performance):
4611 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
4612 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
4613 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
4614 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
4615 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
4618 o Minor features (safety):
4619 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
4620 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
4621 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
4624 o Minor features (testing):
4625 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
4627 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
4628 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
4629 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
4630 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
4631 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
4632 on. Closes ticket 21439.
4633 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
4634 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
4635 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
4636 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
4637 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
4638 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
4639 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
4640 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
4641 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
4642 21507. Partially implements 21470.
4644 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
4645 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
4646 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
4647 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
4649 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
4650 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
4651 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
4652 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
4655 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
4656 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
4657 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4658 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
4659 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4660 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
4661 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
4662 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
4665 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4666 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
4667 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
4669 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
4670 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
4671 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
4672 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
4673 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
4674 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
4676 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
4677 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
4678 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4680 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
4681 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
4682 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
4683 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
4684 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
4685 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
4686 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
4687 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
4688 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
4689 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
4690 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
4691 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
4692 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
4693 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
4695 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4696 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
4697 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
4698 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
4699 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4700 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
4701 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
4702 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
4703 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
4704 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
4705 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
4706 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4708 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
4709 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
4710 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
4712 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
4713 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
4714 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
4715 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
4716 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
4717 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4719 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
4720 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
4721 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
4722 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
4723 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
4724 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
4725 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
4726 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
4727 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
4728 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
4729 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
4730 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
4732 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
4733 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
4734 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
4735 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
4736 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
4737 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
4738 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
4739 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
4741 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
4742 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
4743 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4744 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
4745 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
4746 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
4748 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
4749 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
4750 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
4753 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
4754 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
4755 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
4756 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
4757 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
4759 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
4760 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
4761 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
4762 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
4763 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
4764 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4765 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
4766 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4767 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
4768 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
4769 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4771 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
4772 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
4773 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
4774 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4776 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
4777 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
4778 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
4779 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
4780 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
4781 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
4782 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
4783 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
4784 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
4785 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
4786 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4787 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
4788 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
4789 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4791 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
4792 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
4793 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
4794 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
4795 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
4796 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
4797 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4799 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4800 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
4801 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4802 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
4803 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
4804 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
4805 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4807 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4808 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
4809 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
4810 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
4811 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
4812 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
4813 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
4814 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
4815 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
4816 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
4817 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4818 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
4819 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
4821 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
4822 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
4823 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
4824 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
4826 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
4827 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
4828 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
4830 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
4831 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
4832 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
4833 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
4835 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4836 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
4837 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
4838 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4840 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
4841 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
4842 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
4843 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
4844 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
4845 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4846 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
4847 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
4848 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
4850 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
4851 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
4852 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
4853 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
4854 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
4855 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
4856 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
4859 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
4860 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
4861 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
4862 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
4863 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
4864 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
4866 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4867 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
4868 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
4869 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
4870 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
4871 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4872 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
4873 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4874 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
4875 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
4876 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
4877 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
4878 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
4879 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4880 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
4881 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
4884 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
4885 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
4886 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
4887 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
4888 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
4890 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
4891 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
4892 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
4893 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
4894 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
4895 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4896 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
4898 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
4899 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
4900 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4902 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4903 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
4904 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
4905 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
4906 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
4907 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
4908 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
4909 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
4910 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
4911 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
4912 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
4913 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
4915 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
4916 Resolves ticket 22213.
4917 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
4918 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
4919 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
4920 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
4921 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
4922 types. Closes ticket 21651.
4923 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
4924 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
4927 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
4929 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
4930 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
4932 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
4933 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
4934 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
4936 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
4938 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
4939 Closes ticket 21873.
4940 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
4941 Closes ticket 21151.
4942 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
4943 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
4945 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
4946 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4947 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
4948 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
4950 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
4951 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
4952 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
4953 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
4954 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
4955 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
4956 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
4957 default behavior is now unavailable.
4958 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
4959 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
4960 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
4961 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
4962 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
4963 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
4964 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
4966 o Removed features (tools):
4967 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
4968 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
4969 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
4970 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
4971 required. Closes ticket 21842.
4974 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
4975 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
4976 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
4977 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
4979 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4980 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
4981 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
4982 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
4983 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
4984 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
4985 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
4986 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
4987 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
4989 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
4990 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
4991 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4992 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
4994 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4995 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
4996 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
4997 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
4998 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
5000 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5001 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5004 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
5005 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
5006 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
5007 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
5009 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5010 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
5011 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5012 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
5013 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5014 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
5015 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
5016 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
5019 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5020 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
5021 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
5024 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5025 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
5026 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
5027 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
5028 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
5029 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5031 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5032 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
5033 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
5034 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5036 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5037 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
5038 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5040 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
5041 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
5042 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5045 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
5046 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
5047 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
5048 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
5049 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
5052 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
5055 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
5056 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
5057 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
5058 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
5059 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
5060 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
5062 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5063 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
5064 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
5065 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
5067 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
5068 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
5069 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
5070 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5072 o Minor features (geoip):
5073 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5076 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5077 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
5078 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
5079 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
5080 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
5082 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
5083 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
5084 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
5085 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
5086 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5088 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
5089 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
5090 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
5091 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
5092 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
5093 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
5094 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
5095 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
5096 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
5099 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
5100 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
5101 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
5102 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
5103 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
5105 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
5106 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
5107 bugfixes described below.
5109 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
5110 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
5111 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
5112 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
5113 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5114 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
5115 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
5116 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
5119 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
5120 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
5121 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
5122 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
5123 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
5124 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
5125 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
5128 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
5129 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
5130 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
5131 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
5132 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
5133 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
5134 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
5135 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5136 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
5137 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
5138 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
5139 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
5140 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
5143 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5144 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
5145 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
5148 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
5149 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
5150 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
5151 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
5152 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
5154 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5155 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
5156 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5158 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
5159 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
5160 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
5162 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
5163 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
5164 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
5165 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
5166 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
5167 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
5168 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5170 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
5172 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
5173 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
5174 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5177 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
5178 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
5179 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
5180 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
5181 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
5182 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
5184 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
5185 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
5186 bugfixes described below.
5188 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
5189 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
5190 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
5191 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
5192 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
5195 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
5196 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
5197 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
5198 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
5199 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
5200 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
5201 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
5204 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
5205 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
5206 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
5207 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
5208 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
5210 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
5211 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
5212 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
5213 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
5214 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
5215 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
5216 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
5218 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
5219 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
5220 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
5221 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
5222 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
5224 o Minor features (geoip):
5225 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5228 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
5229 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
5230 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
5231 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5233 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
5234 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
5235 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
5237 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
5238 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
5239 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
5240 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
5241 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
5244 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
5245 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
5246 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
5247 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
5248 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5250 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
5251 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
5252 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
5253 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
5254 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
5255 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
5257 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
5258 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
5259 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
5260 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
5263 o Minor features (geoip):
5264 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5267 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
5268 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
5269 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
5270 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
5271 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
5273 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
5274 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
5275 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
5277 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
5278 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
5279 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
5280 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
5281 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
5282 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
5284 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
5285 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
5286 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
5287 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
5290 o Minor features (geoip):
5291 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5294 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
5295 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
5296 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
5299 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
5300 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
5301 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
5302 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
5303 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
5304 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
5306 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
5307 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
5308 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
5309 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
5312 o Minor features (geoip):
5313 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5316 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
5317 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
5318 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
5320 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
5321 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
5322 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
5323 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
5324 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
5325 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
5327 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
5328 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
5329 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
5330 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
5333 o Minor features (geoip):
5334 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5337 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
5338 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
5339 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
5341 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
5342 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
5343 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
5344 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
5345 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
5346 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
5348 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
5349 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
5350 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
5351 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
5354 o Minor features (geoip):
5355 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5358 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
5359 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
5360 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
5363 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
5364 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
5365 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
5366 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
5367 clients are not affected.
5369 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
5370 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
5371 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
5372 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
5373 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
5374 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5377 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5380 o Minor features (future-proofing):
5381 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
5382 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
5383 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
5384 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
5385 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
5386 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
5388 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5389 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
5390 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
5391 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
5392 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
5396 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
5397 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
5399 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
5400 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
5401 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
5402 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
5403 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
5404 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
5407 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
5408 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
5410 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
5411 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
5412 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
5413 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
5414 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
5416 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes
5417 since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
5419 o Major features (directory authority, security):
5420 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
5421 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
5422 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
5424 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
5425 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
5426 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
5427 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
5428 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
5431 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
5432 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
5433 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
5434 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
5435 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
5436 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
5437 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
5438 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
5441 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
5442 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
5443 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
5444 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
5445 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
5446 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
5447 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
5448 15056; part of proposal 220.
5449 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
5450 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
5451 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
5452 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
5453 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
5454 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
5455 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
5456 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
5457 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
5460 o Major features (security):
5461 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
5462 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
5463 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
5464 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
5465 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
5466 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
5468 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
5469 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
5470 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
5471 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
5472 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
5473 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
5474 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
5475 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
5476 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
5477 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
5478 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5480 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
5481 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
5482 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
5483 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
5485 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
5486 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
5487 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
5488 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
5491 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
5492 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
5493 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5495 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
5496 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
5497 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
5498 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
5499 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
5500 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
5501 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5503 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
5504 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
5505 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
5506 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
5507 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
5508 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
5509 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
5510 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
5511 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
5512 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
5513 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
5514 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
5515 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
5516 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
5517 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
5519 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
5520 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
5521 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
5522 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
5523 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
5525 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
5526 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
5527 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
5528 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it
5529 on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
5530 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
5531 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5533 o Minor feature (client):
5534 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
5535 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
5537 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
5538 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
5539 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
5540 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
5542 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
5543 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
5544 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
5546 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
5547 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
5548 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
5549 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
5550 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
5552 o Minor features (controller):
5553 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
5554 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
5555 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
5556 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
5559 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
5560 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
5561 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
5562 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
5563 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
5564 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
5565 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
5566 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
5567 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
5568 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
5570 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
5571 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
5572 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
5575 o Minor features (directory authorities):
5576 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
5577 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
5579 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
5580 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
5581 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
5583 o Minor features (directory authority):
5584 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
5585 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
5586 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
5587 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
5588 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
5590 o Minor features (directory cache):
5591 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
5592 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
5595 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
5596 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
5597 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
5598 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
5600 o Minor features (entry guards):
5601 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
5602 break regression tests.
5603 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
5604 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
5606 o Minor features (fallback directories):
5607 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
5608 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
5609 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
5610 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
5611 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
5612 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
5613 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
5614 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
5615 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
5616 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
5617 Closes ticket 20539.
5618 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
5619 Closes ticket 20822.
5620 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
5622 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
5623 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
5624 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
5625 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
5626 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
5628 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
5629 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
5630 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
5631 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
5632 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
5635 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
5636 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
5637 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
5638 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
5640 o Minor features (geoip):
5641 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5644 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
5645 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5648 o Minor features (infrastructure):
5649 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
5650 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
5652 o Minor features (linting):
5653 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
5654 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
5656 o Minor features (logging):
5657 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
5658 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
5660 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
5661 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
5662 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
5664 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
5665 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
5667 o Minor features (relay):
5668 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
5669 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
5670 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
5671 Written by Michael Sonntag.
5673 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
5674 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
5675 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
5678 o Minor features (testing):
5679 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
5680 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
5681 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
5683 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
5684 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
5685 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
5686 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
5687 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
5688 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
5689 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
5690 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
5691 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5693 o Minor bugfix (logging):
5694 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
5695 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
5696 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
5697 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
5700 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
5701 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
5702 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
5703 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
5705 o Minor bugfixes (build):
5706 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
5707 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
5710 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
5711 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
5712 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
5714 o Minor bugfixes (client):
5715 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
5716 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
5717 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5718 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
5719 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
5720 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
5722 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
5723 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
5724 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
5726 o Minor bugfixes (config):
5727 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
5728 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
5729 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
5730 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5732 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5733 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
5734 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5735 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
5736 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
5737 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
5739 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
5740 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
5741 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
5742 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
5743 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
5744 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
5745 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
5748 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
5749 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
5750 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
5751 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
5752 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
5754 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
5755 - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
5756 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
5757 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5759 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
5760 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
5761 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
5762 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
5763 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5765 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
5766 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
5767 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
5768 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
5769 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
5771 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
5772 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
5773 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
5774 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
5775 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
5776 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
5777 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
5780 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
5781 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
5782 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
5783 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
5784 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
5785 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
5786 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
5787 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
5788 on all recent tor versions.
5790 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
5791 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
5792 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
5794 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
5795 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
5796 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5798 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
5799 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
5800 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
5801 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
5802 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
5803 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
5804 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
5805 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
5806 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5808 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
5809 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
5810 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
5811 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
5812 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5813 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
5814 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
5815 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5816 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
5817 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
5818 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
5821 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
5822 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
5823 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
5824 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
5825 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
5826 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
5827 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
5828 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
5829 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
5830 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
5831 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
5834 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
5835 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
5836 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
5837 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
5838 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
5839 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
5840 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
5841 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
5843 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
5844 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
5845 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
5848 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5849 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
5850 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5852 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
5853 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
5854 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
5855 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
5858 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
5859 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
5860 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
5861 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
5863 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
5864 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5866 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5867 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
5868 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
5870 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
5871 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
5872 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
5873 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
5875 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5876 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
5877 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein".
5878 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
5879 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5880 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
5881 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
5882 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5884 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
5885 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
5886 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
5887 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
5888 Patch by "junglefowl".
5890 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
5891 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
5892 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
5893 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
5894 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
5896 o Minor bugfixes (util):
5897 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
5898 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
5899 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
5900 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
5902 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
5903 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
5904 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
5907 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
5908 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
5909 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
5910 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
5912 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5913 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
5914 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
5915 Closes ticket 19858.
5916 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
5917 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
5918 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
5919 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
5920 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
5921 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
5922 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
5923 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
5924 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
5925 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
5926 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
5927 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
5928 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
5929 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
5930 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
5931 redundant with the similar structures used in the
5932 channel abstraction.
5933 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
5934 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
5935 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
5936 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
5937 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
5938 replaced with code automatically generated by the
5941 o Documentation (formatting):
5942 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
5943 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
5945 o Documentation (man page):
5946 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
5947 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
5950 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
5951 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
5953 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
5954 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
5955 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
5957 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
5958 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
5959 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
5960 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5961 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
5962 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
5963 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
5964 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
5965 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
5966 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
5969 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
5970 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
5971 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
5973 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
5974 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
5975 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
5978 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
5979 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
5980 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
5982 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
5983 from "overcaffeinated".
5984 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
5985 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
5988 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
5989 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
5990 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
5991 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
5992 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
5995 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
5996 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
5997 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
5999 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
6000 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
6001 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
6002 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
6003 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
6004 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
6005 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
6007 o Minor features (geoip):
6008 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6012 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
6013 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
6014 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
6015 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
6018 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
6019 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
6020 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
6022 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
6023 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
6025 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
6026 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
6027 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
6029 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
6030 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
6031 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
6034 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
6035 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
6036 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
6037 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
6038 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
6039 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
6040 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
6041 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
6042 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
6044 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
6045 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
6046 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
6047 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
6048 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6049 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
6050 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
6051 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
6052 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
6053 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
6054 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
6055 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
6056 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
6058 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
6059 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
6060 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
6061 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
6062 Reported by Guido Vranken.
6064 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
6065 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
6066 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
6068 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
6069 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
6070 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
6071 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
6072 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
6073 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
6074 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
6077 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
6078 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
6079 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
6080 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
6081 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
6082 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
6083 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
6085 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
6086 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
6087 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
6088 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
6091 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
6092 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
6093 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
6094 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
6096 o Minor features (geoip):
6097 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6101 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
6102 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
6103 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
6104 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
6107 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
6108 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
6109 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
6111 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
6112 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
6114 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
6115 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
6116 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
6118 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
6119 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
6120 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
6123 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
6124 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
6125 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
6126 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
6127 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
6128 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
6129 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
6130 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
6131 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
6133 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
6134 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
6135 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
6136 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
6137 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
6138 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
6139 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
6140 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
6141 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
6143 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
6144 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
6145 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
6146 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
6147 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6149 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
6150 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
6151 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
6152 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
6153 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
6156 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
6157 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
6158 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
6159 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
6160 Reported by Guido Vranken.
6162 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
6163 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
6164 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
6166 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
6167 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
6168 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
6169 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
6170 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
6171 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
6174 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
6175 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
6176 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
6177 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
6178 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
6179 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
6180 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
6183 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
6184 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
6185 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
6186 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
6187 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
6188 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
6189 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
6191 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
6192 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
6193 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
6194 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
6197 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
6198 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
6199 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
6200 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
6202 o Minor features (geoip):
6203 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6206 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
6207 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
6208 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
6211 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
6212 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
6213 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
6214 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
6217 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
6218 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
6219 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
6221 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
6222 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
6224 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
6225 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
6226 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
6228 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
6229 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
6230 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
6233 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
6234 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
6235 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
6236 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
6237 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
6238 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
6239 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
6240 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
6241 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
6243 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
6244 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
6245 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
6246 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
6247 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
6248 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
6249 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
6250 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
6251 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
6253 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
6254 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
6255 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
6256 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
6257 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6259 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
6260 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
6261 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
6262 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
6263 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
6266 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
6267 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
6268 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
6269 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
6270 Reported by Guido Vranken.
6272 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
6273 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
6274 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
6276 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
6277 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
6278 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
6279 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
6280 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
6281 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
6284 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
6285 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
6286 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
6287 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
6288 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
6289 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
6290 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
6293 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
6294 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
6295 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
6296 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
6297 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
6298 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
6299 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
6301 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
6302 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
6303 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
6304 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
6307 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
6308 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
6309 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
6310 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
6312 o Minor features (geoip):
6313 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6316 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
6317 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
6318 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
6320 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
6321 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
6322 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
6323 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
6324 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
6325 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
6327 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
6328 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
6329 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
6333 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
6334 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
6335 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
6336 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
6339 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
6340 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
6341 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
6343 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
6344 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
6346 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
6347 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
6348 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
6350 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
6351 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
6352 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
6355 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
6356 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
6357 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
6358 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
6359 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
6360 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
6361 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
6362 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
6363 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
6365 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
6366 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
6367 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
6368 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
6369 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
6370 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
6371 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
6372 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
6373 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
6375 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
6376 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
6377 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
6378 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
6379 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
6382 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
6383 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
6384 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
6385 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
6386 Reported by Guido Vranken.
6388 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
6389 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
6390 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
6392 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
6393 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
6394 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
6395 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
6396 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
6397 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
6400 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
6401 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
6402 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
6403 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
6404 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
6405 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
6406 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
6409 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
6410 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
6411 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
6412 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
6413 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
6414 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
6415 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
6417 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
6418 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
6419 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
6420 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
6423 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
6424 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
6425 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
6426 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
6428 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
6429 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
6430 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
6431 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
6433 o Minor features (geoip):
6434 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6437 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
6438 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
6439 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
6441 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
6442 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
6443 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
6447 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
6448 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
6449 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
6450 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
6452 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
6453 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
6454 least January of 2020.
6456 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
6457 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
6458 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
6459 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
6462 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
6463 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
6464 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
6465 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
6466 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
6467 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
6468 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6470 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
6471 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
6472 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
6473 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
6474 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
6475 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
6476 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
6478 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
6479 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
6480 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
6482 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
6483 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
6484 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
6486 o Minor features (geoip):
6487 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6490 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
6491 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
6492 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
6494 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
6495 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
6497 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
6498 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
6499 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
6501 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
6502 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
6503 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
6504 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6505 Patch by "junglefowl".
6508 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
6509 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
6510 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
6511 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
6512 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
6513 version should upgrade.
6515 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
6516 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
6518 o Major bugfixes (security):
6519 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
6520 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
6521 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
6522 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
6523 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
6524 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6526 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
6527 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
6528 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
6529 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
6530 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
6531 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
6532 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
6533 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
6534 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
6535 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
6536 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6538 o Minor features (geoip):
6539 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6542 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6543 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
6544 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
6545 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
6547 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
6548 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6551 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
6552 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
6553 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
6554 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
6555 become available for their systems.
6557 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
6560 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
6561 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
6563 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
6564 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
6565 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
6566 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
6567 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
6568 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
6569 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
6570 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
6571 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
6573 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
6574 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
6575 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
6576 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
6577 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
6579 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
6580 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
6584 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
6585 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
6587 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
6588 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
6589 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
6590 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
6591 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
6592 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
6593 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
6594 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
6596 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
6598 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
6599 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
6600 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
6601 become available for their systems.
6603 Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11. For a list of
6604 changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
6606 o New system requirements:
6607 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
6608 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
6609 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
6610 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
6611 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
6612 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
6613 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
6614 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
6615 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
6616 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
6617 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
6619 o Deprecated features:
6620 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
6621 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
6622 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
6623 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
6624 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
6625 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
6626 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
6627 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
6628 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
6629 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
6630 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
6631 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
6632 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
6633 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
6634 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
6635 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
6636 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
6637 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
6638 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
6639 and TransListenAddress.
6641 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
6642 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
6643 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
6644 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
6645 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
6646 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
6647 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
6648 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
6649 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
6651 o Major features (build, hardening):
6652 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
6653 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
6654 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
6655 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
6656 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
6657 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
6658 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
6659 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
6660 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
6662 o Major features (circuit building, security):
6663 - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
6664 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
6665 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
6667 - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
6668 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
6670 o Major features (compilation):
6671 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
6672 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
6673 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
6674 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
6676 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
6677 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
6678 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
6680 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
6681 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
6682 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
6683 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
6684 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
6685 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
6686 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
6687 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
6689 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
6690 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
6691 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
6692 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
6693 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
6694 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
6695 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
6697 o Major features (resource management):
6698 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
6699 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
6700 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
6701 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
6702 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
6703 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
6705 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
6706 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
6707 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
6708 every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
6709 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
6710 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
6711 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
6712 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
6713 hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
6714 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
6715 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
6717 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
6718 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
6719 "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
6720 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
6721 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
6722 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
6723 This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
6724 to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
6725 particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
6726 part of proposal 264.
6728 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
6729 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
6730 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
6731 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
6733 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
6734 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
6735 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
6736 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
6737 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
6738 download, stop waiting for certificates.
6739 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
6740 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
6741 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
6743 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
6744 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
6745 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
6747 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
6748 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
6749 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
6750 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
6751 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
6752 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
6753 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
6755 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
6756 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
6757 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
6758 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
6759 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
6760 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
6761 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
6762 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
6763 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
6764 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
6766 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
6767 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
6768 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
6769 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
6770 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
6771 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6773 o Minor features (port flags):
6774 - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
6775 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
6776 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
6777 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
6778 18693; patch by "teor".
6780 o Minor features (build, hardening):
6781 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
6782 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
6783 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
6784 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
6785 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
6786 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
6787 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
6788 Closes ticket 18895.
6790 o Minor features (client, directory):
6791 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
6792 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
6793 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
6796 o Minor features (code safety):
6797 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
6798 allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
6799 patch from "U+039b".
6801 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
6802 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
6805 o Minor features (config):
6806 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
6807 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
6809 o Minor features (controller):
6810 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
6811 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
6812 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
6813 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
6814 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
6815 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
6816 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
6817 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
6819 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
6820 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
6821 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
6824 o Minor features (directory authority):
6825 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
6826 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
6827 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
6828 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
6829 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
6830 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
6831 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
6832 Implements ticket 18624.
6833 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
6834 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
6835 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
6838 o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
6839 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
6840 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
6841 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
6842 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
6844 o Minor features (hidden service):
6845 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
6846 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
6847 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
6850 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
6851 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
6852 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
6853 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
6854 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
6855 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
6856 Closes ticket 18365.
6857 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
6858 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
6859 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
6860 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
6862 o Minor features (logging):
6863 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
6864 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
6865 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
6866 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
6867 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
6868 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
6869 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
6870 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
6871 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
6872 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
6874 o Minor features (performance):
6875 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
6876 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
6877 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
6878 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
6879 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
6880 Closes ticket 18815.
6882 o Minor features (relay, usability):
6883 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
6884 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
6885 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
6886 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
6889 o Minor features (security, TLS):
6890 - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
6891 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
6892 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
6893 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
6895 o Minor features (testing):
6896 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
6897 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
6898 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
6899 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
6900 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
6901 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
6902 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
6903 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
6904 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
6905 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
6907 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
6908 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
6909 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
6910 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
6911 (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
6912 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
6913 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
6915 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
6916 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
6917 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
6918 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
6919 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
6920 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
6921 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
6922 assertion as a test failure.
6923 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
6925 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
6926 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
6927 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
6928 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
6929 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
6930 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
6931 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
6932 with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
6933 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
6935 o Minor features (Tor2web):
6936 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
6937 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
6938 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
6940 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
6941 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
6942 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
6943 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
6944 domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
6946 o Minor features (user interface):
6947 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
6948 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
6949 was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
6950 command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
6953 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
6954 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
6955 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
6956 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
6959 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
6960 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
6961 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
6962 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
6963 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
6964 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
6966 o Minor bugfixes (build):
6967 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
6968 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
6969 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6971 o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
6972 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
6973 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
6974 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
6975 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
6977 o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
6978 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
6979 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
6980 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
6981 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
6983 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
6984 - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
6985 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
6986 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
6987 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6989 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
6990 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
6991 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6993 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
6994 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
6995 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6997 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
6998 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
6999 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
7002 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
7003 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
7004 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
7006 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7007 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
7008 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
7010 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
7011 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
7012 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7013 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
7014 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
7015 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
7016 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
7017 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
7019 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
7020 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
7021 handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
7022 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
7024 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
7025 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
7026 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
7027 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7028 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
7029 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
7030 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
7031 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7032 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
7033 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
7035 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
7036 the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
7037 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
7038 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
7040 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
7041 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
7042 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
7043 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
7046 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
7047 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
7048 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
7049 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
7051 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
7052 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
7055 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
7056 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
7057 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
7058 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
7060 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
7061 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
7063 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
7064 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
7065 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
7066 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
7067 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
7069 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
7070 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
7071 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7073 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
7074 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
7075 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
7077 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7078 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
7079 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
7080 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
7081 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
7082 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7084 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7085 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
7086 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
7088 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
7089 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
7090 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
7091 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
7092 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
7093 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
7094 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
7096 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
7097 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
7098 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7099 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
7100 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7101 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
7102 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7103 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
7104 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
7105 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
7106 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
7107 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
7108 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
7109 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
7110 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
7113 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
7114 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
7115 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
7116 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
7117 behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
7118 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
7120 o Minor bugfixes (options):
7121 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
7122 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
7124 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
7125 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
7126 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
7129 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7130 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
7131 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7132 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
7133 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
7134 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7136 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7137 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
7138 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
7139 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
7140 patch from "cypherpunks".
7141 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
7142 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
7143 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
7144 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7145 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
7146 disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
7147 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
7148 generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
7149 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
7150 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
7151 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
7153 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
7154 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
7156 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
7157 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
7158 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7159 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
7160 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
7163 o Minor bugfixes (time):
7164 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
7165 bugfix on all released tor versions.
7166 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
7167 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
7168 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
7169 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7171 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
7172 - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
7173 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
7174 19678. Patch by teor.
7176 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
7177 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
7178 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
7179 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
7180 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
7182 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
7183 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7185 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7186 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
7188 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
7189 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
7190 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
7191 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
7194 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
7195 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
7196 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
7197 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
7198 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
7199 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
7200 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
7201 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
7202 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
7203 tickets 19287 and 19290.
7204 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
7205 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
7206 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
7207 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
7208 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
7209 Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
7210 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
7211 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
7213 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
7214 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
7215 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
7216 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
7219 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
7220 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
7223 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
7224 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
7225 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
7226 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
7227 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
7228 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch
7229 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
7232 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
7233 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
7234 command-line options to enable them.
7235 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
7236 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
7239 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
7240 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
7241 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
7242 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
7245 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7246 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
7247 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
7248 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
7249 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
7250 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
7253 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
7254 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
7255 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
7258 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
7259 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
7260 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
7261 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
7263 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
7264 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
7265 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
7266 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
7269 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
7270 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
7271 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
7272 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
7275 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
7276 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
7277 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
7280 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
7281 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
7282 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7284 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
7285 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
7286 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
7288 o Minor features (geoip):
7289 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
7293 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
7294 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
7295 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
7296 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
7297 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
7300 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
7301 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
7302 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
7303 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
7304 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
7305 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
7306 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
7307 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
7308 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
7310 o Minor features (geoip):
7311 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
7315 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
7316 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
7317 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
7318 who select public relays as their bridges.
7320 o Major bugfixes (crash):
7321 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
7322 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
7323 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
7324 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
7325 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7327 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
7328 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
7329 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
7330 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
7331 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
7334 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
7335 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
7336 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
7338 o Minor features (geoip):
7339 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
7343 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
7344 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
7345 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
7346 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
7347 encouraged to upgrade.
7349 o Directory authority changes:
7350 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7351 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
7353 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
7354 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
7355 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
7356 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
7357 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
7358 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7360 o Minor features (geoip):
7361 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
7364 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7365 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
7366 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
7369 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
7370 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
7371 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
7372 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
7375 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
7377 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
7379 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
7380 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
7381 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
7382 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
7383 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
7384 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
7386 Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
7388 o New system requirements:
7389 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
7390 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
7391 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
7393 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
7394 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
7395 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
7396 longer runs with, these versions.
7397 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
7398 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
7399 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
7400 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
7401 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
7403 o Directory authority changes:
7404 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
7405 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
7407 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
7409 o Major features (directory system):
7410 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
7411 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
7412 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
7413 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
7414 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
7415 gsathya, and karsten.
7416 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
7417 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
7418 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
7419 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
7420 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
7422 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
7423 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
7424 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
7425 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
7426 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
7427 4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
7430 o Major features (security, Linux):
7431 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
7432 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
7433 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
7434 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
7435 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
7437 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
7438 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
7439 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
7440 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
7441 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
7442 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
7443 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
7445 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
7446 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
7449 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
7450 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
7451 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
7453 o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
7454 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
7455 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
7456 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
7457 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
7459 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
7460 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
7461 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
7462 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7463 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
7464 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
7465 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
7466 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
7467 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
7468 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7470 o Major bugfixes (key management):
7471 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
7472 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
7473 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
7474 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
7475 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
7476 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
7479 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
7480 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
7481 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
7482 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
7483 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7485 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
7486 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
7487 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
7488 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
7489 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
7490 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
7491 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
7492 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
7493 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7495 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
7496 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
7497 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
7498 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
7499 Reported by Guido Vranken.
7501 o Major bugfixes (testing):
7502 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
7503 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
7505 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
7506 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
7507 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
7508 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7510 o Minor features (accounting):
7511 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
7512 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
7513 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
7514 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
7516 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
7517 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
7518 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
7519 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
7520 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
7521 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
7522 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
7525 o Minor features (build):
7526 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
7527 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
7529 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
7530 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
7531 patch from "cypherpunks".
7532 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
7533 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
7534 tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
7535 numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
7536 17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
7537 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
7538 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
7539 Patch from intrigeri.
7541 o Minor features (clients):
7542 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
7543 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
7544 ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
7546 o Minor features (controller):
7547 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
7548 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
7549 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
7551 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
7552 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
7553 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
7554 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
7555 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
7557 o Minor features (crypto):
7558 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
7559 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
7561 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
7562 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
7563 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
7564 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
7565 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
7567 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
7568 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
7569 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
7570 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
7572 o Minor features (directory downloads):
7573 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
7574 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
7575 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
7576 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
7577 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
7578 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
7579 17864; patch by teor.
7581 o Minor features (geoip):
7582 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
7585 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
7586 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
7587 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
7588 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
7589 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
7591 o Minor features (IPv6):
7592 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
7593 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
7594 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
7595 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
7596 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
7597 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
7598 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
7599 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
7600 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
7601 from Nick Mathewson and teor.
7602 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
7603 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
7605 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
7606 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
7607 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
7608 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
7609 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
7610 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
7611 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
7612 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
7613 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
7614 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
7616 o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7617 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
7618 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
7619 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
7622 o Minor features (logging):
7623 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
7624 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
7625 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
7626 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
7629 o Minor features (portability):
7630 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
7631 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
7633 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
7634 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
7635 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
7636 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
7637 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
7639 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
7640 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
7641 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
7642 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
7643 Resolves ticket 17951.
7645 o Minor features (replay cache):
7646 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
7647 feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
7649 o Minor features (robustness):
7650 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
7651 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
7652 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
7654 o Minor features (security, clock):
7655 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
7656 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
7657 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
7658 teor. Implements ticket 17188.
7660 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
7661 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
7662 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
7663 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
7664 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
7665 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
7667 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
7668 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
7669 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
7670 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
7672 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
7673 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
7674 Implements ticket 17026.
7675 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
7676 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
7677 Implements feature 17986.
7678 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
7679 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
7680 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
7682 o Minor features (security, RNG):
7683 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
7684 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
7685 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
7686 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
7687 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
7688 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
7689 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
7690 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
7691 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
7692 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
7695 o Minor features (security, win32):
7696 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
7697 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
7700 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
7701 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
7702 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
7703 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
7704 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
7705 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
7706 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
7709 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
7710 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
7711 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
7712 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
7713 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
7714 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
7715 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
7716 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
7717 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
7718 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
7719 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
7720 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
7721 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
7722 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
7724 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
7725 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
7726 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
7729 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
7730 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
7731 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
7734 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
7735 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
7736 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
7738 o Minor bugfixes (build):
7739 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
7740 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
7741 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
7742 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
7743 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
7745 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
7746 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
7748 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
7749 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
7750 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
7751 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
7752 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
7754 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
7755 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7756 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
7757 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
7758 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7759 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
7761 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
7762 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
7763 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
7764 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
7765 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
7766 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
7767 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
7768 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7769 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
7770 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7771 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
7773 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
7774 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
7777 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
7778 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
7779 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
7780 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
7781 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7783 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
7784 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
7785 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
7786 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
7787 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
7788 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7789 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
7790 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
7792 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
7794 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
7795 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
7796 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
7798 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
7799 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
7800 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
7802 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
7803 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
7804 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
7806 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
7807 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
7808 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
7809 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
7811 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
7812 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
7813 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
7814 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
7815 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
7817 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
7818 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
7819 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
7821 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
7822 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
7823 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
7824 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
7825 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
7826 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7827 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
7828 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
7829 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
7831 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
7832 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
7833 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
7834 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
7837 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
7838 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
7839 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
7840 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
7841 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
7843 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
7844 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
7845 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
7846 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
7847 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
7848 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
7849 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
7850 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
7852 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
7853 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
7854 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
7855 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
7856 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
7857 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
7858 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
7859 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
7860 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
7863 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
7864 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
7865 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
7866 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7868 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
7869 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
7870 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
7872 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
7873 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
7874 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7876 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7877 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
7878 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
7879 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
7880 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
7881 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
7882 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
7883 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7884 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
7885 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
7886 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7887 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
7888 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
7889 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7890 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
7891 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
7892 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
7893 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
7894 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
7896 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7897 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
7898 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
7899 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
7900 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
7902 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
7903 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
7904 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
7905 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
7906 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
7907 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
7908 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7909 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
7910 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
7911 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7912 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
7913 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
7916 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
7917 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
7918 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
7919 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
7921 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
7922 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7923 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
7926 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7927 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
7928 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
7929 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
7931 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
7932 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
7933 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
7934 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
7935 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
7936 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
7939 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
7940 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
7941 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
7942 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
7944 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
7945 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
7946 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
7947 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
7948 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
7949 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
7950 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
7951 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
7952 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
7954 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
7955 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
7956 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
7957 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
7958 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
7960 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
7961 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
7962 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
7963 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
7965 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
7966 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
7967 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
7968 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7969 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
7970 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
7971 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
7972 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
7974 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
7975 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
7977 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
7978 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
7979 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
7982 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7983 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
7984 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
7985 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
7987 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
7988 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
7989 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7990 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
7991 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
7992 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
7993 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
7994 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
7995 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
7996 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
7997 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7998 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
7999 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
8000 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
8001 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
8002 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8004 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
8005 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
8006 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
8007 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
8008 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
8009 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
8010 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
8012 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
8013 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
8014 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
8015 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
8017 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8018 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
8019 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
8021 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
8022 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
8023 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
8024 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
8026 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
8027 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
8028 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
8029 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
8030 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
8031 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
8032 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
8033 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
8034 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
8035 17744. Patch from zerosion.
8036 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
8037 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
8038 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
8039 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
8040 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
8041 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
8042 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
8043 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
8044 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
8045 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
8046 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
8047 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
8051 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
8052 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
8053 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
8054 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
8055 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
8056 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
8057 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
8058 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
8059 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
8060 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
8061 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
8062 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
8064 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
8065 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
8068 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
8069 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
8070 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
8071 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
8072 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
8073 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
8074 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
8075 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
8078 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
8079 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
8080 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
8081 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
8082 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
8083 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
8084 portion of ticket 16831.
8085 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
8087 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
8088 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
8089 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
8090 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
8091 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
8093 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
8094 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
8095 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
8096 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
8099 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
8100 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
8101 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
8103 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
8104 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
8105 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
8106 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
8107 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
8108 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
8111 o Minor features (geoip):
8112 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
8115 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8116 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
8117 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
8118 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
8119 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
8120 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
8122 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8123 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
8124 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
8125 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
8126 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
8127 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
8128 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
8129 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8130 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
8131 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8134 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
8135 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
8136 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
8137 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
8138 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
8139 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
8140 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
8141 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
8142 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
8143 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
8144 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
8145 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
8146 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
8147 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
8148 that would make him proud.
8150 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
8152 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
8153 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
8154 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
8155 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
8156 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
8157 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
8158 of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
8160 o New system requirements:
8161 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
8162 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
8164 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
8165 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
8166 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
8167 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
8168 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
8169 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
8170 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
8171 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
8172 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
8173 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
8174 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
8175 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
8176 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
8178 o Major features (controller):
8179 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
8180 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
8182 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
8183 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
8184 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
8185 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
8186 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
8187 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
8188 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
8190 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
8191 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
8192 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
8193 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
8194 key). Closes ticket 13642.
8195 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
8196 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
8197 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
8198 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
8199 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
8200 Implements part of ticket 12498.
8201 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
8202 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
8203 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
8204 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
8205 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
8206 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
8207 part of ticket 12498.
8208 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
8209 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
8211 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
8212 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
8213 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
8214 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
8215 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
8216 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
8217 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
8218 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
8219 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
8222 o Major features (ECC performance):
8223 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
8224 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
8226 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
8227 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
8228 available. Implements ticket 16535.
8229 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
8230 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
8231 Implements ticket 16467.
8232 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
8233 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
8234 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
8235 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
8237 o Major features (Hidden services):
8238 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
8239 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
8240 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
8241 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
8242 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
8243 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
8244 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
8245 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
8246 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
8247 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
8248 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
8249 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
8251 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
8252 introduction points, which used to change the number of
8253 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
8254 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
8256 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
8257 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
8258 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
8259 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
8260 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
8261 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
8263 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
8264 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
8265 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
8266 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
8267 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
8268 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
8270 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
8271 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
8272 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
8273 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
8274 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
8275 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
8276 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
8277 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
8280 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
8281 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
8282 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
8283 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
8285 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
8286 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
8287 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
8288 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
8289 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
8290 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
8293 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
8294 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
8295 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
8297 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
8298 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
8299 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
8300 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
8301 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
8302 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
8304 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
8305 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
8306 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
8307 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
8308 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
8311 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
8312 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
8313 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
8314 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
8315 by "cypherpunks_backup".
8316 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
8317 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
8318 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
8321 o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
8322 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
8323 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
8324 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
8326 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
8327 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
8328 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
8329 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8330 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
8331 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
8332 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
8335 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
8336 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
8337 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
8338 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
8339 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
8340 own. Implements feature 15482.
8341 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
8342 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
8344 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
8345 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
8346 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
8347 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
8348 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
8350 o Minor features (command-line interface):
8351 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
8352 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
8353 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
8354 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
8356 o Minor features (compilation):
8357 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
8358 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
8359 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
8360 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
8361 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
8363 o Minor features (control protocol):
8364 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
8365 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
8367 o Minor features (controller):
8368 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
8369 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
8370 present. Implements ticket 14840.
8371 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
8372 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
8373 Closes ticket 14845.
8374 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
8375 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
8376 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
8378 o Minor features (directory authorities):
8379 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
8380 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
8381 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
8382 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
8383 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
8385 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
8386 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
8387 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
8388 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
8389 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
8390 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
8391 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
8393 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
8394 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
8395 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
8396 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
8398 o Minor features (geoip):
8399 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
8402 o Minor features (hidden services):
8403 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
8404 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
8405 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
8406 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
8408 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
8409 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
8410 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
8412 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
8413 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
8414 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
8415 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
8416 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
8417 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
8418 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
8419 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
8421 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
8422 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
8423 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
8424 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
8425 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
8426 Closes ticket 15745.
8428 o Minor features (logging):
8429 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
8430 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
8433 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
8434 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
8435 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
8436 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
8438 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
8439 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
8440 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
8441 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
8442 Resolves ticket 15435.
8444 o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
8445 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
8446 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
8447 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8448 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
8449 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
8450 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
8451 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8452 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
8453 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
8454 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
8455 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
8456 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
8457 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
8458 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
8459 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
8460 Related to ticket 16069.
8462 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
8463 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
8464 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
8466 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
8468 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
8469 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
8470 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
8473 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8474 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
8475 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
8476 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
8477 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
8479 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
8480 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
8481 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
8482 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
8484 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
8485 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
8486 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
8487 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
8488 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
8489 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
8490 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
8491 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
8493 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8494 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
8495 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
8496 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8498 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8499 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
8500 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
8502 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
8503 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
8504 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
8506 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
8507 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
8508 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
8509 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
8511 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
8512 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
8513 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
8514 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
8515 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
8516 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
8518 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
8519 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
8520 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
8522 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
8523 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8525 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8526 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
8527 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8528 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
8529 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8530 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
8531 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
8532 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
8534 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
8535 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
8536 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
8537 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
8539 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
8540 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
8541 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
8543 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
8544 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
8545 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
8548 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8549 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
8550 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
8551 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
8552 recent enough Clang.
8554 o Minor bugfixes (network):
8555 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
8556 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
8557 unsuitable for public communications.
8559 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
8560 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
8561 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
8562 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
8564 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8565 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
8566 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8567 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
8568 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
8570 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
8571 of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
8573 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8574 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
8575 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
8576 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
8577 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
8579 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
8580 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
8582 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
8583 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
8586 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
8587 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
8588 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
8589 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
8590 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
8592 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
8593 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
8594 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
8595 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
8596 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
8597 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
8599 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
8600 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
8601 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
8602 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
8604 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
8605 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
8606 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
8607 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
8608 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
8609 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
8610 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
8611 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
8613 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
8614 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
8615 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
8617 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8618 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
8619 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
8620 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
8621 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
8622 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
8623 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
8624 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
8625 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
8626 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
8627 function. Closes ticket 16763.
8628 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
8629 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
8631 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
8632 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
8633 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
8634 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
8635 haven't supported that in ages.
8636 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
8637 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
8638 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
8639 suite of other microdesc functions.
8640 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
8641 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
8642 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
8643 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
8644 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
8645 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
8646 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
8647 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
8648 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
8649 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
8650 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
8651 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
8652 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
8653 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
8654 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
8655 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
8657 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
8658 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
8662 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
8663 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
8664 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
8666 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
8667 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
8668 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
8669 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
8670 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
8671 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
8672 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
8673 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
8674 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
8675 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
8677 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
8679 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
8680 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
8681 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
8682 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
8683 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
8684 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
8685 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
8686 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
8687 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
8688 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
8689 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
8690 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
8691 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
8693 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
8694 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
8697 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
8698 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
8699 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
8700 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
8701 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
8702 Closes ticket 14922.
8703 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
8704 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
8705 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
8706 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
8707 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
8708 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
8709 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
8710 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
8711 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
8712 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
8713 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
8714 Closes ticket 13338.
8717 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
8718 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
8719 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
8720 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
8721 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
8722 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
8723 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
8724 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
8725 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
8726 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
8727 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
8728 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
8729 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
8730 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
8731 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
8734 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
8735 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
8736 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
8737 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
8738 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
8739 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
8740 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
8741 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
8742 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
8743 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
8744 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
8746 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
8747 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
8748 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
8749 Closes ticket 15817.
8750 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
8751 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
8752 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
8753 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
8754 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
8755 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
8756 network before we begin.
8757 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
8758 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
8759 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
8760 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
8761 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
8762 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
8764 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
8765 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
8767 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
8768 default as a part of "make check".
8769 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
8770 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
8771 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
8772 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
8773 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
8774 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
8775 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
8776 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
8777 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
8778 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
8779 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
8780 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
8781 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
8782 files. Closes ticket 15180.
8783 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
8784 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
8785 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
8786 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
8787 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
8788 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
8789 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
8790 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
8791 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
8792 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
8793 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
8794 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
8795 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
8796 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
8797 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
8798 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
8799 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
8801 - Set the severity correctly when testing
8802 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
8803 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
8804 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
8805 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
8807 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
8808 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
8809 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
8810 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
8811 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
8812 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
8814 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
8815 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
8816 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
8817 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
8818 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
8819 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
8820 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
8821 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
8824 o Major bugfixes (stability):
8825 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
8826 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
8827 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
8828 by "cypherpunks_backup".
8829 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
8830 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
8831 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
8834 o Minor features (geoip):
8835 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
8836 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
8838 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
8839 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
8840 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
8841 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
8842 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
8843 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
8845 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8846 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
8847 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
8848 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
8851 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
8852 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
8853 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
8854 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
8855 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
8857 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
8858 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
8859 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
8860 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
8861 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
8864 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
8865 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
8866 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
8867 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
8868 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
8869 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
8870 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
8872 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8873 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
8874 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
8875 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
8877 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8878 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
8879 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
8880 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
8881 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
8882 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
8885 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
8886 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
8887 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
8890 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
8891 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
8892 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
8893 authorities should upgrade.
8895 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
8896 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
8897 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
8898 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
8901 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
8902 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
8903 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
8906 o Minor features (geoip):
8907 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
8908 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
8912 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
8913 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
8914 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
8915 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
8916 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
8918 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
8919 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
8921 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
8922 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
8923 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
8924 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
8925 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
8926 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
8927 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
8929 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
8930 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
8931 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
8932 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
8933 Resolves ticket 15515.
8934 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
8935 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
8936 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
8940 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
8941 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
8942 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
8943 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
8944 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
8946 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
8947 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
8949 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
8950 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
8951 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
8952 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
8953 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
8954 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
8955 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
8957 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
8958 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
8959 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
8960 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
8961 Resolves ticket 15515.
8964 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
8965 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
8966 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
8967 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
8968 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
8970 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
8971 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
8973 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
8974 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
8975 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
8976 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
8977 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
8978 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
8979 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
8981 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
8982 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
8983 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
8984 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
8985 Resolves ticket 15515.
8988 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
8989 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
8991 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
8992 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
8993 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
8994 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
8995 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
8996 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
8997 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
8998 bugs should be addressed.
9000 o New compiler and system requirements:
9001 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
9002 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
9003 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
9004 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
9006 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
9007 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
9008 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
9009 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
9010 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
9011 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
9012 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
9013 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
9014 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
9016 o Deprecated versions and removed support:
9017 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
9018 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
9019 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
9020 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
9021 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
9022 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
9024 o Directory authority changes:
9025 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
9026 closes ticket 14487.
9027 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
9028 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
9029 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
9031 o Major features (bridges):
9032 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
9033 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
9034 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
9037 o Major features (changed defaults):
9038 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
9039 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
9040 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
9041 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
9042 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
9043 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
9045 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
9046 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
9047 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
9048 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
9051 o Major features (directory system):
9052 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
9053 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
9054 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
9055 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
9056 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
9057 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
9058 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
9059 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
9060 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
9061 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
9062 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
9063 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
9064 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
9065 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
9066 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
9067 227. Closes ticket 10395.
9069 o Major features (guards):
9070 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
9071 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
9072 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
9073 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
9074 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
9076 o Major features (hidden services):
9077 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
9078 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
9079 Closes ticket 13667.
9080 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
9081 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
9082 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
9083 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
9084 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
9085 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
9086 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
9087 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
9088 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
9089 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
9090 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
9092 o Major features (performance):
9093 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
9094 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
9095 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
9096 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
9097 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
9098 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
9099 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
9100 Implements ticket 9682.
9102 o Major features (relay):
9103 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
9104 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
9105 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
9106 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
9107 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
9108 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
9109 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
9110 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
9112 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
9113 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
9114 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
9115 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
9116 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
9117 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
9118 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
9121 o Major features (sample torrc):
9122 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
9123 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
9124 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
9125 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
9126 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
9127 generally useful "sample torrc".
9129 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
9130 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
9131 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
9132 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
9133 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
9134 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
9136 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
9137 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
9138 Implements ticket 11485.
9140 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
9141 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
9142 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
9143 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
9144 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
9145 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
9148 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
9149 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
9150 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
9153 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
9154 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
9155 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9157 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
9158 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
9159 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
9160 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
9161 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
9163 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
9164 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
9165 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
9166 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
9168 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
9169 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
9170 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
9173 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
9174 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
9175 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
9176 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
9177 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
9178 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
9180 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9181 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
9182 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
9183 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
9185 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
9186 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
9187 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
9188 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
9189 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
9190 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
9191 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
9193 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
9194 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
9195 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
9196 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
9197 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
9198 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9200 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
9201 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
9202 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
9203 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
9204 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9205 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
9206 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
9207 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9209 o Minor features (build):
9210 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
9211 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
9212 Resolves ticket 13037.
9214 o Minor features (client):
9215 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
9216 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
9217 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
9218 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
9220 o Minor features (client):
9221 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
9222 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
9223 Resolves ticket 13315.
9225 o Minor features (controller):
9226 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
9227 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
9229 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
9230 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
9232 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
9233 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
9234 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
9235 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
9236 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
9237 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
9238 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
9239 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
9240 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
9242 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
9243 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
9244 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
9245 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
9246 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
9247 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
9248 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
9249 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
9250 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
9251 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
9253 o Minor features (directory authorities):
9254 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
9255 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
9256 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
9257 argument more than once.
9258 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
9259 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
9260 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
9261 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
9262 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
9263 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
9265 o Minor features (geoip):
9266 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
9267 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
9270 o Minor features (guard nodes):
9271 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
9272 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
9273 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
9275 o Minor features (heartbeat):
9276 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
9277 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
9278 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
9279 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
9281 o Minor features (hidden service):
9282 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
9283 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
9284 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
9285 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
9286 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
9287 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
9288 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
9289 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
9290 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
9291 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
9292 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
9293 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
9294 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
9295 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
9297 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
9298 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
9299 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
9301 o Minor features (interface):
9302 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
9303 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
9304 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
9306 o Minor features (logging):
9307 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
9308 Resolves ticket 6852.
9309 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
9310 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
9311 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
9313 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
9314 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
9315 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
9316 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
9317 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
9318 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
9319 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
9320 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
9321 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
9322 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
9323 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
9324 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
9327 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
9328 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
9329 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
9330 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
9332 o Minor features (relay):
9333 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
9334 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
9335 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
9337 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
9338 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
9339 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
9340 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
9341 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
9342 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
9343 document. Implements feature 10427.
9345 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
9346 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
9347 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
9348 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
9350 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
9351 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
9352 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
9353 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
9354 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
9355 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
9357 o Minor features (stability):
9358 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
9359 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
9362 o Minor features (systemd):
9363 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
9364 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
9365 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
9366 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
9367 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
9368 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
9370 o Minor features (testing networks):
9371 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
9372 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
9373 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
9374 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
9375 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
9377 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
9378 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
9379 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
9380 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
9381 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
9382 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
9384 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
9385 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
9386 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
9387 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
9388 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
9390 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
9391 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
9392 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
9393 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
9394 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
9396 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
9397 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
9398 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
9399 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
9400 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
9403 o Minor features (validation):
9404 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
9405 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
9406 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
9407 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
9408 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
9409 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
9410 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
9411 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
9412 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
9413 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
9414 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
9417 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
9418 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
9419 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
9420 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
9422 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
9423 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
9424 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
9425 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
9427 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
9428 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
9429 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
9431 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
9432 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
9433 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
9435 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
9436 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9437 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
9438 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
9439 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
9440 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
9441 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
9443 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
9444 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
9445 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
9446 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9447 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
9448 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
9449 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
9450 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
9451 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
9453 o Minor bugfixes (client):
9454 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
9455 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
9456 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
9457 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
9458 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
9459 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
9460 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
9461 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
9463 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
9464 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
9465 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
9466 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
9467 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
9468 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9469 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
9470 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
9472 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
9473 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
9474 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
9477 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
9478 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
9479 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
9480 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
9481 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
9483 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
9484 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
9485 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
9486 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
9487 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
9488 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
9489 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
9490 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9492 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
9493 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
9494 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
9495 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
9496 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9498 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
9499 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
9500 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
9501 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
9502 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
9504 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
9505 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
9506 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9508 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
9509 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
9510 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
9511 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
9512 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
9514 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
9515 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
9516 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
9518 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9519 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
9521 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
9522 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
9523 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
9524 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
9526 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
9527 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
9529 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
9530 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
9531 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
9532 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
9533 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
9534 Addresses ticket 14188.
9535 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
9536 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
9537 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
9538 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
9539 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
9540 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
9541 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
9542 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9543 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
9544 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
9545 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
9548 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9549 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
9550 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
9551 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
9552 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
9553 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
9555 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9556 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
9557 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
9558 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
9559 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
9561 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
9562 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
9563 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
9564 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
9565 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
9566 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
9567 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
9568 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9569 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
9570 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9571 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
9572 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
9573 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9574 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
9575 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
9576 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9578 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
9579 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
9580 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
9581 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9582 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
9583 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
9584 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
9585 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
9588 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
9589 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
9590 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
9591 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
9592 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
9593 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
9594 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
9595 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
9596 state, and key files.
9597 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
9598 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
9601 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
9602 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
9603 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
9604 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
9605 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9606 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
9607 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
9608 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9609 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
9610 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
9611 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
9612 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
9613 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
9614 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
9615 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
9616 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
9617 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
9618 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
9621 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9622 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
9623 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
9624 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
9625 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
9626 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
9627 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
9628 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
9629 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
9630 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9632 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9633 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
9634 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9635 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
9636 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
9637 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
9639 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
9640 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9642 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
9643 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
9644 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
9645 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
9646 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
9648 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
9649 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
9650 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
9651 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
9652 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
9653 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
9655 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9656 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
9657 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
9659 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
9660 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
9661 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
9663 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
9664 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
9665 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
9666 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
9667 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
9669 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
9670 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
9671 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
9674 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9675 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
9676 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
9677 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
9678 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
9681 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
9682 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
9683 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
9684 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
9687 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
9688 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
9689 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
9692 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
9693 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
9694 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
9696 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
9697 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
9698 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
9699 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
9700 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
9703 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
9704 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
9705 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9706 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
9707 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
9708 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
9710 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
9711 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
9712 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
9713 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
9714 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
9715 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
9717 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
9718 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
9719 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
9720 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
9721 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
9722 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
9723 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
9724 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
9725 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
9726 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
9727 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
9728 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
9729 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
9730 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
9731 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
9732 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
9733 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
9734 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
9735 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
9736 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
9737 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
9738 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
9739 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
9740 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
9741 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
9742 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
9743 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
9744 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
9745 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
9746 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
9747 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
9748 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
9750 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
9751 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
9752 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
9753 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
9754 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
9756 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9757 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
9758 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
9759 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
9760 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
9761 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
9762 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
9763 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
9764 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
9766 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
9767 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
9768 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
9770 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
9771 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
9772 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
9775 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
9776 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
9777 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
9778 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
9781 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
9782 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
9783 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
9785 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9786 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
9787 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
9789 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
9790 Resolves ticket 12205.
9791 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
9792 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
9793 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
9794 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
9796 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
9797 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
9798 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
9800 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
9801 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
9803 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
9804 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
9805 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
9806 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
9807 or_options_t structure.
9808 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
9809 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
9810 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
9811 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
9812 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
9813 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
9814 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
9815 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
9817 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
9818 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
9820 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
9822 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
9823 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
9824 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
9825 with a function instead.
9826 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
9827 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
9828 Closes ticket 13172.
9829 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
9830 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
9831 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
9832 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
9833 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
9834 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
9835 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
9836 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
9837 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
9838 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
9839 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
9840 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
9844 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
9845 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
9846 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
9847 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
9849 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
9850 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
9851 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
9852 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
9853 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
9854 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
9855 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
9856 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
9857 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
9858 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
9859 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
9860 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
9861 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
9862 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
9863 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
9864 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
9865 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
9866 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
9868 o Distribution (systemd):
9869 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
9870 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
9871 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
9872 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
9873 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
9875 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
9876 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
9878 o Downgraded warnings:
9879 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
9880 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
9883 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
9884 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
9885 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
9888 o Removed features (directory authorities):
9889 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
9890 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
9891 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
9892 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
9893 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
9894 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
9895 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
9896 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
9897 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
9899 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
9900 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
9901 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
9902 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
9906 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
9907 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
9908 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
9909 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
9910 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
9912 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
9913 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
9914 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
9915 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
9916 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
9917 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
9918 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
9919 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
9920 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
9922 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
9923 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
9925 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
9926 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
9927 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
9928 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
9929 anymore, and ignore it.
9931 o Removed platform support:
9932 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
9933 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
9934 Closes ticket 11446.
9936 o Testing (test-network.sh):
9937 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
9938 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
9940 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
9942 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
9943 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
9944 Partially implements ticket 13161.
9947 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
9948 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
9949 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
9950 (existing behavior).
9951 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
9952 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
9953 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
9954 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
9955 Closes ticket 14107.
9956 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
9957 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
9958 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
9959 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
9961 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
9962 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
9963 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
9964 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
9965 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
9966 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
9968 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
9970 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
9971 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
9972 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
9973 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
9974 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
9975 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
9976 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
9977 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
9978 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
9979 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
9980 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
9981 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
9983 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
9984 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
9985 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
9987 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
9988 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
9990 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
9991 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
9992 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
9994 o Directory authority changes:
9995 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
9996 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
9997 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
9998 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
9999 closes ticket 14487.
10001 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
10002 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
10003 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
10006 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
10007 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
10008 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
10009 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
10010 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
10011 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
10012 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
10013 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10015 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
10016 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
10017 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
10018 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
10020 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10021 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
10022 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
10023 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
10025 o Minor features (controller):
10026 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
10027 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
10028 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
10030 o Minor features (geoip):
10031 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
10032 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
10035 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
10036 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
10037 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
10038 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10039 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
10040 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10042 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10043 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
10044 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
10045 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
10047 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
10048 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
10049 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
10050 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
10051 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
10052 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
10053 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
10054 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10056 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
10057 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
10058 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
10060 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
10061 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
10062 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
10063 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
10064 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
10068 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
10069 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
10070 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
10073 o Directory authority changes:
10074 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
10075 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
10076 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
10077 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
10078 closes ticket 14487.
10080 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
10081 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
10082 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
10083 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
10085 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
10086 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
10087 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
10088 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
10089 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
10090 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
10091 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
10092 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10094 o Minor features (geoip):
10095 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
10096 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
10099 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
10100 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
10102 It adds several new security features, including improved
10103 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
10104 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
10105 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
10106 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
10107 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
10108 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
10109 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
10110 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
10111 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
10112 and features mentioned below.
10114 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
10115 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
10117 o Major features (security):
10118 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
10119 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
10120 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
10121 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
10122 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
10123 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
10124 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
10125 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
10126 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
10127 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
10129 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
10130 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
10131 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
10132 streams attached to each circuit.
10134 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
10135 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
10136 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
10137 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
10138 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
10139 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
10140 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
10141 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
10142 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
10143 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
10144 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
10145 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
10146 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
10148 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
10149 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
10150 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
10151 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
10153 o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
10154 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
10155 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
10156 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
10157 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
10158 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
10160 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
10161 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
10162 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
10163 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
10164 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
10165 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
10166 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
10167 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
10170 o Major features (controller):
10171 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
10172 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
10173 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
10174 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
10175 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
10176 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
10178 o Major features (relay performance):
10179 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
10180 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
10181 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
10182 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
10183 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
10184 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
10185 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
10186 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
10187 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
10188 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
10190 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
10191 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
10192 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
10193 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
10194 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
10195 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
10196 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
10197 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
10198 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
10199 Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
10201 o Major features (testing networks):
10202 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
10203 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
10204 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
10205 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
10206 Implements ticket 8530.
10208 o Major features (other):
10209 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
10210 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
10211 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
10212 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
10213 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
10214 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
10216 o Deprecated versions:
10217 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
10218 attention for some while.
10220 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
10221 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
10222 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
10224 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
10225 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
10226 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
10227 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
10228 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
10229 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
10230 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
10231 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
10232 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
10233 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
10234 router's identity is not forgeable.
10236 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
10237 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
10238 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
10239 bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
10241 o Major bugfixes (client):
10242 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
10243 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
10244 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
10245 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
10246 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
10247 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
10248 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
10249 to build circuits".
10251 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
10252 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
10253 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
10254 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
10257 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
10258 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
10259 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
10260 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
10261 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
10262 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
10263 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10265 o Major bugfixes (relay):
10266 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
10267 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
10268 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
10269 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
10270 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
10271 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
10272 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
10273 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
10274 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
10275 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
10276 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10277 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
10278 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
10279 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
10280 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
10281 bugfix on every version of Tor.
10283 o Minor features (security):
10284 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
10285 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
10286 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
10287 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
10289 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
10290 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
10291 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
10292 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
10293 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
10294 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
10295 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
10297 o Minor features (security, memory management):
10298 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
10299 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
10300 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
10301 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
10302 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
10303 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
10305 o Minor features (bridge client):
10306 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
10307 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
10308 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
10310 o Minor features (bridge):
10311 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
10312 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
10314 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
10315 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
10316 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
10317 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
10318 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
10319 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
10320 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
10321 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
10322 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
10323 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
10324 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
10325 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
10326 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
10327 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
10328 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
10330 o Minor features (build):
10331 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
10332 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
10333 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
10334 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
10335 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
10336 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
10337 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
10338 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
10339 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
10340 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
10341 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
10342 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
10343 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
10344 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
10345 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
10348 o Minor features (client):
10349 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
10350 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
10351 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
10352 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
10354 o Minor features (config options and command line):
10355 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
10356 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
10357 Implements ticket 10060.
10358 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
10359 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
10360 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
10362 o Minor features (config options):
10363 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
10364 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
10365 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
10366 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
10367 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
10368 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
10369 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
10370 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
10371 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
10372 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
10373 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
10374 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
10375 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
10376 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
10377 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
10378 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
10379 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
10382 o Minor features (controller):
10383 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
10384 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
10386 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
10387 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
10388 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
10389 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
10390 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
10391 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
10392 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
10393 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
10395 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
10396 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
10397 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
10399 o Minor features (diagnostic):
10400 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
10401 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
10402 help diagnose bug 7164.
10403 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
10404 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
10405 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
10406 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
10407 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
10409 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
10410 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
10411 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
10412 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
10413 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
10414 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
10415 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
10416 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
10417 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
10418 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
10419 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
10420 still referenced by a live node_t object.
10421 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
10422 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
10423 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
10425 o Minor features (geoip):
10426 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
10429 o Minor features (interface):
10430 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
10431 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
10432 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
10433 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
10435 o Minor features (kernel API usage):
10436 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
10437 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
10439 o Minor features (log messages):
10440 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
10441 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
10442 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
10443 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
10444 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
10445 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
10446 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
10447 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
10449 o Minor features (log verbosity):
10450 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
10451 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
10452 Resolves ticket 5286.
10453 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
10454 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
10455 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
10456 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
10457 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
10458 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
10460 o Minor features (performance):
10461 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
10462 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
10463 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
10464 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
10465 Closes ticket 8109.
10467 o Minor features (relay):
10468 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
10469 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
10470 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
10472 o Minor features (testing):
10473 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
10474 the unit test scripts.
10475 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
10476 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
10477 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
10478 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
10480 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
10481 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
10482 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
10483 10267; patch from "yurivict".
10484 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
10485 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
10486 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
10487 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
10488 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
10489 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
10491 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
10492 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
10493 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
10494 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10496 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
10497 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
10498 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
10499 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
10500 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
10501 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
10502 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
10503 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
10504 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
10505 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
10507 o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
10508 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
10509 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
10511 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
10512 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
10513 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
10514 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
10515 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10517 o Minor bugfixes (client):
10518 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
10519 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
10520 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
10521 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
10522 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
10523 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
10524 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
10525 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10526 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
10527 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
10528 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
10530 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
10531 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
10532 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
10533 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
10534 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
10535 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
10536 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
10537 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
10538 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
10539 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
10540 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
10541 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10543 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
10544 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
10545 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
10546 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
10548 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
10549 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
10550 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
10551 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
10554 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
10555 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
10556 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
10557 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10558 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
10559 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
10562 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
10563 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
10564 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
10565 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
10566 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
10568 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
10569 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
10570 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
10573 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
10574 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
10575 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
10576 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
10577 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
10578 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
10579 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
10580 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
10581 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
10582 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
10584 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
10585 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
10586 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
10587 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
10588 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
10590 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
10591 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10593 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10594 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
10595 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
10596 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
10597 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
10598 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
10599 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
10600 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
10601 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
10602 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10603 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
10604 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
10605 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
10607 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
10608 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
10609 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
10610 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
10611 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
10612 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
10613 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
10614 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
10615 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
10616 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
10617 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
10618 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
10619 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
10621 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
10622 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
10623 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
10625 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
10626 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
10627 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
10628 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
10629 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
10630 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
10632 o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
10633 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
10634 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
10635 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
10636 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
10637 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
10638 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
10639 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
10640 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
10641 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
10643 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
10644 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
10645 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10647 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
10648 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
10649 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
10650 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
10651 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
10653 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
10654 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
10655 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
10656 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10657 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
10658 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
10659 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
10660 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
10661 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
10662 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
10663 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
10664 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
10665 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
10666 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
10668 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10669 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
10670 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
10671 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
10672 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
10673 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
10674 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
10675 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
10676 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
10678 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
10679 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
10680 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
10681 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
10682 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
10683 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
10684 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
10686 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
10687 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
10689 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
10690 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
10691 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
10692 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
10694 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
10695 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
10696 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
10697 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10698 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
10699 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
10700 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
10701 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
10702 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
10703 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
10704 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
10705 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
10706 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
10707 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
10708 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
10709 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
10710 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
10712 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
10713 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
10714 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
10715 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
10716 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
10717 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
10718 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
10719 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
10722 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
10723 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
10724 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
10725 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
10726 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
10727 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
10728 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10729 Reported by "mr-4".
10730 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
10731 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
10732 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
10733 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10735 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
10736 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
10737 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
10738 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
10739 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
10740 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
10741 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
10742 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
10743 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
10744 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
10745 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
10746 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
10748 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
10749 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
10750 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
10752 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
10753 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
10754 early. Fixes bug 10081.
10756 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
10757 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
10758 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
10759 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
10762 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
10763 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
10764 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
10765 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
10768 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
10769 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
10770 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
10771 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
10773 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
10774 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
10775 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10777 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
10778 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
10779 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
10780 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
10781 versions. Found by "skruffy".
10782 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
10783 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
10784 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
10787 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
10788 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
10789 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
10790 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
10791 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
10792 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
10793 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
10794 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
10795 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10796 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
10797 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
10799 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10800 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
10801 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
10802 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
10803 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
10805 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
10806 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
10807 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
10808 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
10811 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
10812 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
10813 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
10814 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
10815 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
10816 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
10817 should never have affected anyone in practice.
10819 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10820 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
10821 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
10822 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
10823 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
10824 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
10825 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
10826 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
10827 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
10828 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
10829 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
10830 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
10831 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
10832 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
10833 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
10834 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
10835 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
10836 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
10837 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
10838 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
10839 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
10840 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
10841 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
10842 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
10844 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
10845 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
10846 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
10847 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
10848 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
10849 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
10850 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
10851 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
10852 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
10854 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
10855 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
10858 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
10859 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
10861 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
10863 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
10864 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
10865 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
10866 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
10867 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
10868 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
10870 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
10871 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
10873 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
10874 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
10875 caches don't get confused.
10876 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
10877 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10878 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
10879 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
10880 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
10881 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
10882 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
10883 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
10884 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
10885 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
10886 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
10887 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
10888 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
10889 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
10890 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
10891 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
10892 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
10893 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10896 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
10897 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
10898 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
10899 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
10900 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
10902 o Removed code and features:
10903 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
10904 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
10905 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
10906 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
10907 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
10908 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
10910 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
10911 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
10912 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
10913 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
10914 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
10915 part of a fix for bug 10841.
10916 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
10917 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
10918 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
10919 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
10920 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
10921 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
10923 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
10924 Resolves ticket 11070.
10925 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
10926 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
10927 the rest of bug 10841.
10928 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
10929 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
10930 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
10931 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
10933 o Test infrastructure:
10934 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
10935 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
10936 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
10937 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
10938 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
10939 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
10940 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
10941 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
10942 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
10943 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
10945 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
10946 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
10947 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
10948 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
10949 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
10950 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
10951 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
10952 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
10953 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
10954 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
10955 invoking the other functions it calls.
10958 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
10959 Patch from Dana Koch.
10960 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
10961 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
10962 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
10963 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
10965 o Distribution (systemd):
10966 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
10967 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
10968 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
10969 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
10970 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
10971 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
10972 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
10973 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
10974 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
10975 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
10976 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
10977 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
10978 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
10982 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
10983 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
10984 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
10985 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
10986 (which does affect Tor).
10988 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
10989 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
10990 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
10991 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
10993 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
10994 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
10995 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
10996 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
10999 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
11000 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
11001 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
11002 the directory authorities.
11005 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
11006 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
11007 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
11008 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
11009 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
11010 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
11011 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
11012 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
11013 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
11014 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
11015 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
11016 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
11018 o Directory authority changes:
11019 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
11021 o Minor features (geoip):
11022 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
11026 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
11027 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
11028 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
11029 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
11032 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
11033 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
11034 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
11035 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
11036 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
11037 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
11038 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
11039 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
11040 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
11041 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
11044 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
11045 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
11046 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
11047 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
11048 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
11049 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
11050 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
11051 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
11055 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
11056 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
11057 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
11058 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
11059 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
11060 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
11061 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
11062 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
11063 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11064 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
11065 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
11066 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
11067 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
11070 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
11074 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
11075 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
11076 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
11077 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
11078 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
11079 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
11080 of RAM, and several others.
11082 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
11083 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
11084 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
11085 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
11086 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
11088 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
11089 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
11090 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
11091 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
11094 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
11095 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
11096 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
11097 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
11098 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
11099 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
11100 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11101 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
11102 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
11103 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
11104 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
11105 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
11106 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
11107 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
11108 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
11109 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
11110 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
11111 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
11112 Resolves ticket 11438.
11114 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
11115 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
11116 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
11117 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
11118 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
11119 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
11121 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
11122 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
11123 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
11125 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
11126 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
11127 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11129 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
11130 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
11131 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
11132 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11134 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
11135 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
11136 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
11138 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11139 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
11140 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
11143 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
11144 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
11145 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
11146 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
11149 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
11150 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
11151 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
11152 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
11154 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
11155 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
11156 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
11157 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
11159 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
11160 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
11161 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
11165 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
11166 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
11167 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
11168 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
11170 o Major features (client security):
11171 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
11172 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
11173 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
11174 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
11175 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
11176 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
11179 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
11180 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
11181 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
11182 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11184 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11185 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
11186 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
11187 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
11188 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
11191 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
11192 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
11194 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
11195 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
11196 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
11197 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
11198 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
11199 GeoLite2 Country database.
11202 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
11203 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
11204 bugfix on every released Tor.
11205 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
11206 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
11207 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
11208 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11209 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
11210 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
11211 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
11212 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
11213 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
11214 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11215 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
11216 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
11217 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11218 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
11219 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
11221 o Documentation fixes:
11222 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
11223 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
11226 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
11227 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
11228 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
11229 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
11230 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
11231 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
11232 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
11234 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
11235 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
11238 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
11239 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
11240 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
11241 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
11242 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
11243 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
11244 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
11245 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
11247 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
11248 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11249 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
11250 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
11251 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
11252 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
11255 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
11256 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
11257 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
11258 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
11259 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
11262 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
11263 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
11264 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
11265 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
11266 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
11267 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
11268 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
11269 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
11271 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
11272 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
11273 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
11274 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
11275 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
11276 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
11277 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
11278 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
11279 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
11280 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
11281 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
11282 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
11283 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
11284 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
11285 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
11286 security, and privacy fixes.
11288 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
11289 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
11290 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
11291 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
11292 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
11293 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
11294 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
11295 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
11296 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
11297 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
11298 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
11300 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
11301 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
11302 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
11304 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
11306 o Major features (better link encryption):
11307 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
11308 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
11309 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
11310 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
11311 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
11312 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
11315 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
11316 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
11317 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
11318 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
11320 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
11322 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
11323 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
11324 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
11325 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
11326 them to solve bug 6033.)
11328 o Major features (relay performance):
11329 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
11330 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
11331 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
11332 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
11333 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
11334 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
11335 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
11336 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
11337 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
11338 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
11339 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
11340 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
11341 Implements ticket 9574.
11343 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
11344 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
11345 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
11346 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
11347 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
11348 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
11349 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
11350 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
11351 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
11352 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
11353 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
11354 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
11355 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
11356 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
11357 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
11358 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
11360 o Major features (use of guards):
11361 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
11362 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
11363 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
11364 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
11365 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
11366 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
11367 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
11368 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
11369 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
11370 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
11371 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
11372 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
11373 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
11374 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
11376 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
11377 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
11378 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
11379 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
11381 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
11382 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
11385 o Major features (geoip database):
11386 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
11387 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
11388 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
11389 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
11390 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
11391 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
11393 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
11395 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
11397 o Major features (IPv6):
11398 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
11399 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
11400 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
11401 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
11402 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
11403 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
11404 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
11405 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
11406 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
11407 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
11408 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
11409 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
11410 revised in proposal 208.
11411 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
11412 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
11413 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
11415 o Major features (directory authorities):
11416 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
11417 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
11419 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
11420 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
11421 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
11422 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
11423 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
11424 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
11425 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
11426 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
11427 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
11428 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
11429 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
11431 o Major features (build and portability):
11432 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
11433 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
11434 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
11435 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
11436 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
11437 fixes by Jim Meyering.
11438 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
11439 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
11440 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
11441 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
11442 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
11443 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
11445 o Security features:
11446 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
11447 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
11448 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
11449 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
11450 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
11451 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
11452 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
11453 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
11454 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
11457 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
11458 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
11459 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
11460 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
11461 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
11462 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
11463 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
11464 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
11465 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
11466 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
11467 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
11468 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
11469 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
11470 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
11471 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
11472 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
11473 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
11474 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
11476 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
11477 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
11478 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
11479 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
11481 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
11482 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
11483 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
11485 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
11486 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
11487 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
11488 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
11489 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
11490 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
11491 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
11492 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
11493 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
11495 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
11496 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
11498 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
11499 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
11500 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
11501 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
11502 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
11503 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
11504 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
11505 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
11506 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
11507 last time we raised it).
11508 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
11509 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
11510 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
11512 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
11513 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
11514 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
11515 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
11516 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
11517 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
11518 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
11519 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
11520 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
11521 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
11522 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
11523 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
11524 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
11526 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
11527 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
11528 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
11529 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
11530 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
11531 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
11532 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
11533 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
11534 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
11535 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
11536 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
11537 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
11538 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
11540 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
11541 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
11542 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
11543 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
11544 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
11545 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
11546 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
11547 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
11548 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
11550 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
11551 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
11552 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
11553 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
11554 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
11555 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
11556 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
11557 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
11558 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
11559 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
11560 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
11561 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
11562 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
11563 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
11564 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
11565 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
11566 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
11569 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
11570 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
11571 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
11572 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
11574 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
11575 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
11576 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
11577 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
11579 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
11580 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
11581 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
11582 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
11583 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
11584 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
11587 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
11588 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
11589 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
11590 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
11591 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
11592 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
11593 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
11595 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
11596 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
11597 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
11598 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
11600 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
11601 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
11602 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
11603 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
11604 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
11605 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
11606 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
11607 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
11609 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
11610 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
11611 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
11613 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
11614 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
11615 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11617 o Internal abstraction features:
11618 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
11619 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
11620 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
11621 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
11622 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
11623 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
11624 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
11625 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
11626 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
11627 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
11628 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
11629 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
11630 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
11631 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
11632 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
11633 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
11634 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
11636 o New build requirements:
11637 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
11638 strongly recommended.
11639 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
11640 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
11641 from a source distribution.)
11643 o Minor features (protocol):
11644 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
11645 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
11647 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
11648 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
11649 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
11650 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
11651 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
11652 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
11653 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
11654 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
11655 closes ticket 7199.
11656 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
11657 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
11659 o Minor features (security):
11660 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
11661 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
11662 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
11663 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
11664 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
11665 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
11666 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
11667 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
11668 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
11670 o Minor features (control protocol):
11671 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
11673 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
11674 Implements ticket 4971.
11675 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
11676 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
11677 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
11678 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
11679 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
11681 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
11682 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
11684 o Minor features (path selection):
11685 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
11686 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
11687 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
11688 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
11689 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
11690 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
11691 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
11692 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
11693 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
11694 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
11695 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
11696 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
11697 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
11698 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
11700 o Minor features (hidden services):
11701 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
11702 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
11703 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
11704 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
11705 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
11706 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
11707 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
11708 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
11709 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
11710 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
11711 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
11712 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
11713 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
11715 o Minor features (clients):
11716 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
11717 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
11718 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
11719 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
11720 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
11721 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
11722 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
11723 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
11724 the ORPort and the DirPort.
11726 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
11727 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
11728 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
11729 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
11730 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
11731 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
11732 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
11733 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
11734 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
11735 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
11736 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
11737 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
11738 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
11739 Implements part of proposal 222.
11741 o Minor features (bridges):
11742 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
11743 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
11744 bugs 1913 and 1992.
11745 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
11746 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
11747 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
11748 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
11749 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
11750 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
11751 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
11752 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
11753 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
11754 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
11755 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
11757 o Minor features (relays):
11758 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
11759 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
11761 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
11762 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
11763 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
11764 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
11765 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
11766 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
11767 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
11768 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
11769 connect to the wrong addresses.
11770 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
11771 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
11772 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
11773 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
11776 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
11777 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
11778 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
11779 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
11780 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
11781 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
11783 o Minor features (directory authorities):
11784 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
11785 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
11786 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
11788 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
11789 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
11790 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
11791 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
11792 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
11793 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
11795 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
11796 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
11797 Implements ticket 8151.
11798 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
11799 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
11800 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
11801 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
11803 o Minor features (path bias detection):
11804 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
11805 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
11806 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
11807 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
11808 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
11809 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
11810 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
11811 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
11812 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
11813 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
11814 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
11815 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
11816 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
11817 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
11818 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
11819 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
11820 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
11821 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
11822 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
11823 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
11824 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
11825 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
11826 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
11827 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
11828 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
11829 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
11830 detection capability loss.
11832 o Minor features (build):
11833 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
11834 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
11835 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
11837 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
11838 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
11839 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
11841 o Build improvements (autotools):
11842 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
11843 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
11844 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
11846 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
11847 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
11848 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
11849 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
11851 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
11852 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
11853 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
11854 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
11855 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
11856 than to perform erroneously.
11857 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
11859 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
11860 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
11861 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
11863 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
11864 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
11865 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
11866 hard-to-track-down errors.
11867 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
11868 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
11869 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
11870 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
11871 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
11872 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
11873 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
11874 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
11875 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
11876 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
11877 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
11879 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
11880 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
11881 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
11882 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
11883 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
11884 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
11885 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
11886 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
11887 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
11888 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
11890 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
11891 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
11892 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
11893 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
11894 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
11895 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
11896 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
11897 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
11898 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
11899 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
11900 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
11901 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
11902 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
11904 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
11905 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
11906 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
11907 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
11908 or at least make it more diagnosable.
11909 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
11910 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
11911 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
11912 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
11914 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
11915 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
11916 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
11917 part of ticket 6736.
11918 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
11919 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
11920 Resolves ticket 6758.
11921 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
11922 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
11923 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
11924 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
11925 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
11926 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
11927 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
11929 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
11930 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
11931 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
11932 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
11934 o Minor features (testing):
11935 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
11936 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
11938 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
11939 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
11940 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
11943 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
11944 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
11946 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
11947 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
11948 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
11949 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
11950 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
11951 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
11952 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
11953 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
11954 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
11955 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
11956 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
11957 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
11958 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
11959 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
11960 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
11961 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
11962 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
11964 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
11965 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
11966 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
11967 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
11968 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
11969 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
11970 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
11971 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
11972 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
11973 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
11974 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
11975 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
11976 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
11977 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
11978 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
11979 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
11980 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
11981 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
11982 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
11983 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
11986 o Minor fixes (config options):
11987 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
11988 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
11989 or we just won't work.)
11990 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
11991 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
11992 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
11993 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
11994 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
11995 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
11996 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
11997 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11998 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
11999 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
12000 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
12001 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12002 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
12003 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
12004 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
12005 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
12006 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
12007 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
12008 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
12010 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
12011 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
12012 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
12014 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
12015 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
12016 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
12017 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
12019 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
12020 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
12021 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
12022 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
12023 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
12024 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
12025 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
12026 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
12027 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
12028 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
12029 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
12030 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
12031 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
12032 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
12033 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
12034 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
12037 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
12038 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
12039 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
12040 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
12041 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
12042 Should help resolve bug 8235.
12043 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
12044 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
12045 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
12046 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
12047 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
12048 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
12049 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
12050 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
12051 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
12052 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
12053 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
12055 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
12056 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
12057 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
12058 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
12059 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
12060 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
12061 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
12062 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
12064 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
12065 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
12066 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
12067 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
12069 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
12070 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
12071 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
12072 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
12073 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
12075 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
12076 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
12077 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
12078 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12079 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
12080 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12082 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
12083 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
12084 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
12085 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
12086 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
12087 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
12088 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
12089 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
12090 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
12092 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12093 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
12094 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
12095 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
12096 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12097 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
12098 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
12099 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
12100 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
12101 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
12102 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
12103 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
12105 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
12106 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
12107 this is CID 718634.
12108 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
12109 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
12110 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
12111 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
12113 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
12114 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
12116 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
12117 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
12118 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
12119 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
12120 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
12121 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
12122 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
12123 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12124 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
12125 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
12126 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
12127 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
12128 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
12129 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
12130 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
12131 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
12132 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
12133 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
12135 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
12136 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
12137 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
12138 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
12139 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12140 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
12141 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
12142 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
12143 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
12144 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
12145 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
12146 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
12147 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
12150 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
12151 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
12152 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
12153 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
12154 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
12156 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
12157 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
12158 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
12159 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
12160 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
12161 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12162 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
12163 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
12164 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
12167 o Minor bugfixes (build):
12168 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
12169 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
12170 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12172 o Documentation fixes:
12173 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
12174 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
12175 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
12176 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
12177 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
12178 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
12179 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
12181 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
12182 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
12183 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
12184 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
12185 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
12186 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
12187 message is logged at notice, not at info.
12188 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
12189 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
12190 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
12191 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
12192 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
12193 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
12195 o Removed features:
12196 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
12197 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
12198 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
12200 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
12201 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
12202 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
12203 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
12204 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
12205 compatibility code.
12208 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
12209 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
12211 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
12212 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
12214 o Code simplification:
12215 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
12216 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
12217 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
12218 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
12220 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
12221 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
12223 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
12224 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
12225 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
12226 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
12227 present the same extensions.)
12228 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
12230 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
12231 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
12232 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
12233 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
12235 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
12236 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
12237 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
12238 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
12241 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
12243 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
12244 and the different handshakes it supports.
12245 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
12246 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
12247 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
12248 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
12250 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
12251 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
12252 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
12253 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
12254 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
12255 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
12256 testable, and a little less fragile too.
12257 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
12258 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
12259 Implements ticket 5529.
12260 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
12261 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
12262 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
12265 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
12266 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
12267 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
12268 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
12269 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
12270 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12271 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
12272 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
12273 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
12274 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
12275 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
12276 any encoding is overkill.
12277 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
12278 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
12279 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
12280 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
12281 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
12282 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
12283 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
12284 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
12285 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
12288 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
12289 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
12290 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
12291 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
12292 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
12293 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
12294 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
12295 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
12297 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
12298 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
12299 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
12300 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
12301 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
12302 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
12303 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
12304 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
12305 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
12306 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
12307 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
12309 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
12310 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
12311 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
12312 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
12313 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
12314 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
12315 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
12316 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
12317 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
12318 describes microdescriptors.
12320 o Major features (build hardening):
12321 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
12323 o Major features (relay scaling):
12324 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
12325 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
12326 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
12327 much faster than other AES implementations.
12328 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
12329 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
12330 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
12331 Resolves ticket 4526.
12332 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
12333 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
12335 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
12336 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
12337 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
12338 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
12340 o Major features (blocking resistance):
12341 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
12343 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
12344 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
12345 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
12346 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
12347 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
12348 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
12349 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
12350 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
12351 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
12352 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
12353 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
12354 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
12355 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
12356 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
12357 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
12358 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
12359 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
12360 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
12361 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
12363 o Major features (pluggable transports):
12364 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
12365 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
12366 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
12367 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
12369 o Major features (DoS resistance):
12370 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
12371 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
12372 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
12373 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
12374 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
12375 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
12376 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
12377 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
12378 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
12379 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
12380 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
12382 o Major features (hidden services):
12383 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
12384 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
12385 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
12387 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
12388 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
12389 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
12390 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
12391 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
12392 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
12394 o Major features (IPv6):
12395 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
12396 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
12397 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
12398 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
12399 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
12401 o Major features (directory authorities):
12402 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
12403 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
12404 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
12405 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
12406 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
12407 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
12408 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
12409 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
12410 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
12411 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
12413 o Major features (performance):
12414 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
12415 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
12416 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
12417 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
12418 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
12419 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
12420 side of Proposal 174.
12421 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
12422 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
12423 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
12424 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
12425 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
12426 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
12427 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
12428 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
12429 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
12430 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
12431 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
12432 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
12434 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
12435 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
12436 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
12437 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
12438 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
12441 o Major features (relays):
12442 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
12443 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
12444 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
12445 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
12446 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
12447 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
12448 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
12450 o Major features (stream isolation):
12451 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
12452 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
12453 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
12454 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
12455 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
12456 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
12457 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
12458 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
12459 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
12460 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
12461 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
12462 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
12463 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
12464 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
12466 o Major features (bufferevents):
12467 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
12468 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
12469 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
12470 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
12471 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
12472 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
12473 zero-copy transports where available.
12474 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
12475 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
12476 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
12477 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
12478 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
12479 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
12481 o Major features (path selection):
12482 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
12483 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
12484 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
12485 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
12488 o Major features (port forwarding):
12489 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
12490 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
12491 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
12492 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
12493 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
12494 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
12496 o Major features (logging):
12497 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
12498 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
12499 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
12500 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
12501 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
12502 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
12503 Implements enhancement 1668.
12505 o Major features (other):
12506 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
12507 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
12508 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
12509 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
12510 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
12511 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
12512 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
12513 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
12514 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
12515 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
12516 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
12517 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
12518 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
12519 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
12520 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
12521 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
12522 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
12523 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
12524 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
12525 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
12527 o New directory authorities:
12528 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
12529 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
12531 o Security/privacy fixes:
12532 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
12533 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
12534 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12535 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
12536 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
12537 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
12538 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12539 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
12540 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
12541 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
12542 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
12543 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
12544 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
12545 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
12546 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
12547 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
12548 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
12549 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
12550 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
12551 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
12552 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
12553 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
12554 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
12555 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
12556 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
12557 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
12558 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
12559 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
12560 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
12561 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
12562 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
12564 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
12565 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
12566 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
12567 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
12568 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
12569 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
12570 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
12571 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12572 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
12573 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
12574 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
12575 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
12576 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
12577 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
12580 o Major bugfixes (clients):
12581 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
12582 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
12583 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
12584 which introduced predicted ports.
12585 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
12586 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
12587 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
12588 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
12589 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
12590 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
12591 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
12592 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
12593 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
12595 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
12596 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
12597 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
12598 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
12599 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
12600 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
12602 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
12603 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
12604 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
12605 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
12606 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
12607 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
12608 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
12609 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
12610 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
12611 documents entirely.
12613 o Major bugfixes (relays):
12614 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
12615 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
12616 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
12617 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
12618 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
12619 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
12620 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
12621 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
12622 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
12623 immensely in tracking this bug down.
12624 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
12625 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
12626 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
12627 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
12628 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
12629 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
12630 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
12632 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
12633 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
12634 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
12635 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
12636 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
12637 cells were introduced.
12638 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
12639 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
12640 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
12641 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
12643 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
12644 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
12645 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
12646 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
12647 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
12648 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
12649 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
12650 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
12651 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
12652 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
12653 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
12654 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
12655 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
12656 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
12657 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
12658 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
12659 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
12660 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
12661 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
12662 Fixes part of bug 3825.
12664 o Changes to default torrc file:
12665 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
12666 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
12668 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
12669 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
12670 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
12672 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
12673 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
12674 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
12676 o Minor features (directory authorities):
12677 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
12678 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
12679 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
12680 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
12681 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
12682 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
12683 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
12684 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
12685 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
12686 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
12687 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
12688 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
12689 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
12690 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
12691 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
12694 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
12695 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
12696 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
12697 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
12698 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
12699 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
12700 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
12701 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
12702 sure. Closes bug 5139.
12703 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
12704 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
12705 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
12706 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
12707 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
12709 o Minor features (IPv6):
12710 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
12711 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
12712 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
12713 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
12714 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
12715 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
12717 o Minor features (hidden services):
12718 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
12719 Required by fix for bug 3460.
12720 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
12721 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
12722 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
12723 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
12724 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
12725 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
12726 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
12727 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
12728 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
12730 o Minor features (relays):
12731 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
12732 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
12733 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
12734 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
12735 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
12736 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
12737 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
12738 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
12739 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
12740 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
12741 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
12744 o Minor features (new config options):
12745 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
12746 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
12747 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
12748 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
12749 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
12750 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
12751 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
12752 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
12753 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
12754 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
12755 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
12756 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
12758 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
12759 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
12760 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
12761 Implements issue 933.
12762 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
12763 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
12764 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
12765 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
12766 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
12767 implements ticket 3439.
12768 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
12769 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
12770 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
12771 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
12772 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
12773 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
12774 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
12775 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
12777 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
12778 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
12779 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
12780 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
12781 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
12782 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
12783 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
12784 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
12785 appending to the list.
12786 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
12787 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
12788 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
12789 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
12792 o Minor features (controller, new events):
12793 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
12794 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
12795 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
12796 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
12797 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
12798 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
12800 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
12801 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
12802 circuit-status' control-port command.
12803 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
12804 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
12805 user. Implements ticket 1692.
12806 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
12807 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
12808 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
12810 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
12811 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
12812 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
12813 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
12814 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
12815 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
12816 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
12817 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
12818 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
12820 o Minor features (controller, other):
12821 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
12822 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
12823 part of ticket 3457.
12824 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
12825 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
12826 file. Resolves bug 1101.
12827 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
12828 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
12830 o Minor features (log messages):
12831 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
12832 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
12833 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
12834 please let us know about it.
12835 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
12836 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
12837 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
12838 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
12839 Resolves ticket 2474.
12840 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
12841 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
12843 o Minor features (other):
12844 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
12845 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
12846 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
12847 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
12849 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
12850 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
12851 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
12852 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
12853 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
12854 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
12855 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
12857 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
12858 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
12859 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
12860 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
12861 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
12863 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
12864 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
12865 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
12866 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
12867 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
12868 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
12869 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
12870 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
12871 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
12872 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
12873 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
12874 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
12875 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
12876 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
12877 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
12878 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
12881 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
12882 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
12883 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
12884 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
12885 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
12886 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
12887 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
12888 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
12889 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
12891 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
12892 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
12893 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
12894 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
12895 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
12896 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
12897 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
12898 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
12899 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
12900 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
12902 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12903 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
12904 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12905 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
12906 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
12907 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
12908 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
12909 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
12910 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
12912 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
12913 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
12914 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
12915 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
12916 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
12917 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
12918 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
12919 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
12920 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
12922 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
12923 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
12924 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
12925 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
12926 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
12927 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
12928 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
12930 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
12931 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
12932 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
12933 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
12935 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
12936 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
12937 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
12938 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
12939 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
12940 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
12941 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
12942 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
12943 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
12944 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
12945 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
12946 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
12949 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
12950 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
12951 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12952 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
12953 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
12954 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
12956 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
12957 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
12958 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
12959 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
12960 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
12961 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
12962 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
12963 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
12964 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
12965 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
12966 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
12967 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
12968 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
12969 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
12970 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
12972 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
12973 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
12974 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
12975 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
12976 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
12977 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
12979 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
12980 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
12981 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
12982 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
12983 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
12984 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
12985 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
12986 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
12987 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
12988 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
12989 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
12990 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
12991 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
12992 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
12993 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
12995 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
12996 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
12997 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
12998 be disabled using the new
12999 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
13000 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
13001 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
13002 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
13003 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
13004 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
13005 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
13007 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
13008 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
13009 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
13010 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13011 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
13012 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
13013 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
13015 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
13016 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
13017 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
13018 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
13019 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
13020 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
13021 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
13022 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
13024 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
13025 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
13026 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
13027 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
13028 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
13029 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
13030 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
13031 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
13033 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13034 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
13035 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
13036 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
13037 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
13038 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
13039 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
13040 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
13042 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
13043 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
13044 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
13045 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
13047 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
13048 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
13049 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
13051 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
13052 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
13054 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
13055 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
13056 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
13057 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
13058 case for flushing marked connections.
13059 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
13060 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
13061 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
13062 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
13063 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
13064 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
13065 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
13066 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
13067 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
13068 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
13070 o Minor bugfixes (other):
13071 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
13072 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
13073 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
13074 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
13075 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
13076 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
13077 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
13078 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
13079 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
13080 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
13082 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
13083 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
13084 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
13085 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
13086 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
13088 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
13089 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
13090 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
13091 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
13092 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
13093 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
13094 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
13095 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
13096 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
13097 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
13098 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
13099 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
13100 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
13101 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
13102 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
13103 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
13105 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
13106 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
13107 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
13108 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
13109 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
13110 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
13111 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
13112 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
13113 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
13114 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
13115 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
13116 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
13117 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
13118 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
13119 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
13120 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
13121 Implements ticket 3264.
13122 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
13124 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
13125 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
13126 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
13127 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
13128 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
13129 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
13131 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
13132 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
13133 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
13134 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
13135 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
13136 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
13137 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
13138 them from the other auths.
13139 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
13140 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
13141 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
13142 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13143 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
13144 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
13145 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
13146 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
13150 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
13151 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
13152 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
13154 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
13155 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
13156 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
13157 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
13158 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
13159 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
13160 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
13161 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
13163 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
13164 ./src/test/bench binary.
13165 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
13166 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
13167 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
13168 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
13171 o Build improvements:
13172 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
13173 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
13174 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
13175 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
13176 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
13177 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
13178 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
13179 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
13180 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
13181 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
13182 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
13183 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
13184 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
13185 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
13186 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
13187 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
13188 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
13189 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
13190 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
13191 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
13192 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
13194 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
13196 o Build requirements:
13197 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
13198 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
13199 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
13200 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
13201 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
13202 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
13203 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
13204 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
13205 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
13206 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
13207 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
13208 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
13209 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
13211 o Build fixes (compile/link):
13212 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
13213 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
13215 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
13216 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
13217 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
13218 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
13219 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
13220 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
13221 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
13222 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
13223 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
13225 o Build fixes (other):
13226 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
13227 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
13229 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
13230 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
13231 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
13232 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13233 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
13234 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
13235 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
13236 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
13238 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
13239 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
13242 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
13243 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
13244 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
13245 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
13246 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
13247 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
13248 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
13249 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
13251 o Code refactoring (safety):
13252 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
13253 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
13254 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
13255 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
13256 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
13257 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
13258 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
13259 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
13260 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
13261 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
13262 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
13263 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
13265 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
13266 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
13267 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
13268 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
13269 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
13270 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
13271 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
13272 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
13273 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
13274 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
13275 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
13276 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
13277 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
13278 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
13279 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
13280 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
13281 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
13282 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
13284 o Code refactoring (separate):
13285 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
13286 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
13287 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
13289 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
13290 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
13293 o Code refactoring (name changes):
13294 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
13295 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
13296 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
13297 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
13298 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
13299 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
13300 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
13302 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
13303 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
13304 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
13305 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
13306 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
13307 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
13308 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
13309 invalid value, rather than just -1.
13310 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
13311 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
13312 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
13314 o Code refactoring (other):
13315 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
13316 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
13318 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
13319 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
13320 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
13321 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
13322 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
13323 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
13324 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
13325 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
13326 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
13327 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
13328 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
13329 our library structure used to force them to link it.
13331 o Removed features and files:
13332 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
13333 it would be a bad idea to start.
13334 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
13336 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
13337 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
13338 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
13339 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
13340 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
13341 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
13342 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
13343 are no longer in use as relays.
13344 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
13345 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
13346 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
13347 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
13348 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
13349 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
13353 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
13354 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
13355 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
13357 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
13358 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
13360 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
13361 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
13362 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
13364 o Documentation fixes:
13365 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
13366 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
13367 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
13368 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
13369 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
13370 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
13371 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
13372 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
13375 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
13376 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
13380 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
13381 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
13382 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
13383 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
13384 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
13385 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
13386 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
13390 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
13391 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
13392 attack that could in theory leak path information.
13395 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
13396 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
13397 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
13398 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
13399 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
13400 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
13401 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
13402 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
13403 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
13404 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
13405 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
13406 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
13407 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
13408 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
13411 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
13412 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
13413 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
13417 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
13418 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
13419 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
13420 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
13421 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
13422 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
13423 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
13424 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
13425 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
13426 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
13427 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13430 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
13431 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
13434 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
13435 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
13438 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
13439 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
13440 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
13441 and fixes several crash bugs.
13443 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
13444 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
13445 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
13446 those packages and upgrade anyway.
13448 o Directory authority changes:
13449 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
13450 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
13454 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
13455 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
13456 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
13457 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
13458 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
13459 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
13460 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
13461 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
13462 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
13463 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
13464 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
13465 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
13466 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
13467 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
13468 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
13469 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
13470 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
13471 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
13472 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
13473 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
13474 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
13475 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
13476 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
13477 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
13478 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
13479 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
13480 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
13483 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
13484 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
13485 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
13486 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
13488 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
13489 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
13491 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
13492 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
13493 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
13494 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
13495 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
13496 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
13497 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
13498 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
13501 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
13502 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
13503 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
13504 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
13505 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
13506 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
13507 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
13508 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
13509 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
13510 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
13511 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
13512 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
13513 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
13514 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
13515 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
13516 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
13517 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
13518 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
13519 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
13520 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
13521 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
13522 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
13523 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
13524 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
13525 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
13526 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
13527 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
13528 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
13529 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
13530 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
13531 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
13532 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
13533 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
13534 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
13535 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
13536 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
13537 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
13538 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
13539 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
13540 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
13541 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
13542 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
13543 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
13544 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
13545 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
13546 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
13548 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
13549 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
13550 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
13551 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
13552 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
13553 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
13554 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
13555 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
13556 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
13557 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
13558 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13559 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
13560 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
13561 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
13562 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
13565 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
13566 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
13567 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
13568 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
13570 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
13573 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
13574 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
13575 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
13576 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
13577 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
13578 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
13579 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
13582 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
13583 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
13584 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
13586 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
13587 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
13588 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
13589 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
13590 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
13591 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
13592 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
13593 (which Tor does not do by default).
13595 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
13596 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
13597 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
13598 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
13599 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
13601 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
13602 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
13603 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
13606 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
13607 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
13608 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
13609 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
13610 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
13612 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
13613 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
13616 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
13617 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
13618 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
13619 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
13620 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
13621 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
13622 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
13623 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
13625 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
13626 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
13627 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
13628 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
13629 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
13630 close based on processing a cell on it.
13631 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
13632 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
13633 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
13634 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
13635 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
13636 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
13637 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
13638 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
13639 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
13640 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
13641 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
13642 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
13643 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
13644 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
13645 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
13648 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
13649 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
13650 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
13651 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
13652 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
13653 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
13654 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
13656 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
13657 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
13658 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
13659 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
13660 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
13661 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
13662 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
13663 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
13664 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13665 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
13666 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
13667 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
13668 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
13669 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
13670 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
13671 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
13672 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
13673 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
13674 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
13675 Reported by "troll_un".
13676 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
13677 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
13678 Reported by "troll_un".
13679 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
13680 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
13681 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
13682 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
13685 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
13686 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
13687 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
13688 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
13689 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
13690 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
13691 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
13692 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
13693 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
13694 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
13695 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
13697 o Packaging changes:
13698 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
13699 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
13702 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
13703 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
13704 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
13705 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
13706 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
13708 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
13709 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
13711 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
13712 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
13713 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
13714 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
13715 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
13716 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
13717 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
13718 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
13719 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
13722 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
13725 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
13726 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
13727 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
13729 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
13730 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
13731 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
13732 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
13733 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
13734 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
13735 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
13736 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
13737 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
13738 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
13739 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
13740 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
13741 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
13743 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
13744 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
13745 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
13746 currently connected to them.
13748 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
13749 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
13750 remain; see for example proposal 188.
13752 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
13753 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
13754 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
13755 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
13756 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
13757 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
13758 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
13759 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
13760 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
13761 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
13762 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
13763 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
13764 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
13765 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
13766 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
13767 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
13768 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
13769 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
13772 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
13773 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
13774 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
13775 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
13776 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
13777 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
13778 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
13779 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
13780 when bridges were introduced.
13781 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
13782 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
13783 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
13784 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13785 Found by "frosty_un".
13788 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
13789 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
13791 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
13792 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
13793 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
13794 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
13795 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
13796 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
13797 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
13800 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
13801 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
13802 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
13803 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
13804 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
13805 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
13806 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
13807 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
13808 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
13809 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
13810 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
13811 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
13812 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
13813 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
13814 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
13815 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
13816 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
13817 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
13819 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
13820 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
13821 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
13822 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
13823 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
13824 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
13825 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
13826 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
13827 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
13828 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
13829 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
13830 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
13833 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
13834 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
13835 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
13836 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
13839 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
13840 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
13841 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
13842 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
13843 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
13845 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
13846 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
13847 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
13848 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
13849 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
13850 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
13851 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
13852 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
13853 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
13854 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
13856 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
13857 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
13858 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
13859 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
13860 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
13861 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
13862 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
13863 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
13864 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
13865 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
13866 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
13867 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
13868 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
13869 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
13870 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13871 Found by "frosty_un".
13872 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
13873 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
13874 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
13875 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
13876 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
13877 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
13878 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
13879 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
13880 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13881 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
13882 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
13883 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
13884 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13885 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
13886 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
13887 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
13888 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
13889 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
13890 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
13892 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
13893 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
13894 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
13895 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
13896 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
13897 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
13898 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
13899 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
13901 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
13902 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
13903 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
13904 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
13905 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
13906 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
13907 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
13908 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
13909 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
13910 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
13911 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
13912 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
13914 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
13915 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13916 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
13917 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13918 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
13919 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13920 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
13921 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
13922 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
13924 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
13926 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
13927 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
13928 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
13929 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13930 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
13931 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
13932 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
13933 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
13935 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
13936 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
13937 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
13938 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
13939 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
13941 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
13942 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
13943 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
13944 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
13945 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
13948 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
13949 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
13950 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
13951 reachable from Iran again.
13954 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
13955 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
13956 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
13958 o Minor features (security):
13959 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
13960 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
13961 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
13962 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
13963 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
13964 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
13965 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
13966 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
13967 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
13968 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
13971 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
13972 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
13973 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
13974 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
13975 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
13976 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
13977 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
13978 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
13979 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
13981 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
13982 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
13983 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
13984 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
13985 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
13986 raised by bug 3898.
13987 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
13988 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
13989 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
13990 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
13991 fixes part of bug 2442.
13992 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
13993 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
13994 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
13996 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
13997 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
13998 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
13999 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
14000 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
14003 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
14004 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
14005 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
14006 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
14007 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
14008 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
14011 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
14012 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
14013 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
14014 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
14015 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
14016 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
14017 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
14018 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
14019 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
14020 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
14022 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
14023 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
14024 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
14025 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
14026 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
14027 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
14028 many many other features and bugfixes.
14030 o Major features (client performance):
14031 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
14032 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
14033 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
14034 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
14035 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
14036 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
14038 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
14039 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
14040 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
14041 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
14042 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
14043 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
14044 the first implementation of this feature.
14046 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
14047 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
14048 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
14049 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
14050 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
14051 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
14052 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
14053 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
14054 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
14055 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
14056 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
14057 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
14058 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
14059 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
14060 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
14061 file. Implements ticket 1296.
14063 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
14064 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
14065 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
14066 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
14067 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
14068 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
14069 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
14070 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
14071 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
14072 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
14073 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
14074 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
14075 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
14076 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
14077 they first get the Guard flag.
14078 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
14079 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
14080 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
14081 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
14082 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
14083 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
14084 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
14085 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
14087 o Major features (relays control their load better):
14088 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
14089 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
14090 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
14091 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
14092 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
14093 based on a variant of proposal 163.
14094 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
14095 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
14096 but never per-conn write limits.
14097 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
14098 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
14099 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
14100 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
14102 o Major features (controllers):
14103 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
14104 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
14105 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
14106 contributions to the network.
14107 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
14108 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
14109 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
14111 o Major features (directory authorities):
14112 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
14113 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
14114 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
14116 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
14117 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
14118 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
14119 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
14120 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
14121 download consensus + microdescriptors".
14122 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
14123 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
14124 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
14125 hash algorithm in the future.
14126 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
14127 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
14128 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
14130 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
14131 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
14132 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
14133 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
14134 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
14135 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
14136 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
14137 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
14138 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
14139 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
14140 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
14141 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
14142 connections to directory servers.
14143 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
14144 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
14145 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
14146 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
14147 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
14148 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
14149 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
14150 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
14151 information, or fetch directory information.
14152 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
14153 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
14154 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
14155 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
14156 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
14158 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
14159 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
14160 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
14161 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
14162 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
14163 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
14164 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
14165 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
14166 the network changes.
14167 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
14168 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
14170 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
14171 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
14172 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
14173 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
14174 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
14175 unless you really want your Tor to break.
14176 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
14177 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
14178 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
14179 - When StrictNodes is 1:
14180 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
14181 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
14182 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
14183 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
14184 reachability self-tests.
14185 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
14186 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
14187 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
14188 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
14189 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
14191 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
14192 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
14193 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
14195 o Major features (misc):
14196 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
14197 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
14198 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
14199 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
14200 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
14201 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
14202 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
14203 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
14204 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
14205 part of ticket 3076.
14206 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
14207 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
14208 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
14210 o Code security improvements:
14211 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
14212 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
14213 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
14214 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
14215 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
14216 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
14217 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
14218 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
14219 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
14220 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
14221 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
14222 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
14223 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
14224 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
14225 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
14226 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
14227 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
14228 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
14229 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
14230 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
14231 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
14232 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
14233 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
14234 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
14235 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
14236 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
14237 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
14238 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
14240 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
14241 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
14242 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
14243 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
14244 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
14245 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
14246 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
14247 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
14248 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
14249 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
14250 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
14251 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
14252 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
14254 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
14255 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
14256 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
14258 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
14259 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
14261 o Major bugfixes (stability):
14262 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
14263 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
14264 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
14265 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
14266 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14267 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
14268 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
14269 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
14270 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
14271 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
14272 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
14273 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
14274 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
14275 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
14276 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
14277 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
14279 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
14280 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
14281 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
14283 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
14284 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
14285 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
14286 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
14287 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
14288 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
14289 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
14290 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
14291 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
14292 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
14293 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
14294 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
14295 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
14296 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
14297 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
14298 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
14299 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
14300 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
14301 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14303 o Privacy fixes (clients):
14304 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
14305 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
14306 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
14307 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
14308 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
14309 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
14310 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
14311 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
14312 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
14314 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
14315 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
14316 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
14317 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
14318 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
14319 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
14320 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
14321 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
14322 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
14323 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
14325 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
14326 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
14327 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
14328 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
14329 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
14330 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
14331 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
14332 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
14333 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
14334 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
14335 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
14336 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
14337 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
14339 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
14340 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
14341 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
14342 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
14343 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
14344 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
14345 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
14346 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
14347 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
14348 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
14350 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
14351 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
14352 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
14353 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
14354 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
14355 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
14356 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
14358 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
14359 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
14360 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
14361 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
14362 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
14363 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
14364 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
14365 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
14366 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
14367 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
14368 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
14369 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
14370 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
14371 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
14372 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
14374 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
14375 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
14376 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
14377 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
14378 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
14379 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
14380 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
14382 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
14383 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
14384 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
14385 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
14386 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
14387 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
14388 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
14389 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
14391 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
14392 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
14393 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
14394 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
14395 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
14396 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
14397 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
14398 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
14399 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
14400 the longest-lived bug prize.
14401 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
14402 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
14403 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
14404 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
14405 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
14406 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
14407 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
14408 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
14409 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
14410 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
14412 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
14413 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
14414 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
14415 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
14416 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
14417 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
14420 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
14421 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
14422 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
14423 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
14424 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
14425 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
14426 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
14427 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
14428 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
14429 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
14430 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
14431 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14432 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
14433 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
14434 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
14435 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
14436 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
14437 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
14438 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
14439 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
14440 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
14441 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
14442 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
14443 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
14444 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
14445 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
14447 o Major bugfixes (misc):
14448 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
14449 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
14450 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
14451 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
14452 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
14453 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
14454 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
14455 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
14457 o Minor features (relays):
14458 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
14459 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
14460 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
14461 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
14462 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
14463 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
14464 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
14465 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
14467 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
14468 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
14469 Resolves ticket 3252.
14470 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
14471 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
14473 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
14474 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
14475 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
14476 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
14477 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
14479 o Minor features (network statistics):
14480 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
14481 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
14482 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
14483 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
14484 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
14485 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
14486 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
14487 measure download times.
14488 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
14489 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
14491 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
14492 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
14493 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
14494 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
14496 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
14497 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
14498 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
14500 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
14501 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
14502 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
14503 Implements ticket 2432.
14504 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
14505 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
14506 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
14507 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
14508 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
14509 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
14510 Implements enhancement 1790.
14511 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
14512 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
14514 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
14515 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
14516 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
14517 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
14518 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
14519 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
14520 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
14522 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14524 o Minor features (clients):
14525 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
14526 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
14527 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
14528 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
14530 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
14531 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
14532 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
14533 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
14534 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
14535 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
14536 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
14537 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
14539 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
14540 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
14541 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
14542 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
14543 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
14544 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
14545 SSL handshake issues.
14547 o Minor features (directory authorities):
14548 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
14549 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
14550 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
14551 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
14552 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
14553 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
14554 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
14555 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
14556 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
14557 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
14558 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
14559 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
14560 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
14561 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
14562 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
14563 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
14564 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
14565 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
14566 hour of their uptime.
14567 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
14568 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
14569 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
14570 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
14572 o Minor features (hidden services):
14573 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
14574 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
14575 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
14576 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
14577 Required by fix for bug 3000.
14578 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
14579 by fix for bug 3000.
14580 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
14581 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
14582 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
14583 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
14584 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
14586 o Minor features (controller interface):
14587 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
14588 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
14589 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
14590 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
14591 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
14592 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
14593 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
14594 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
14595 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
14596 over our stored history.
14597 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
14598 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
14599 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
14601 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
14602 to the circuit build timeout.
14603 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
14604 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
14605 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
14607 o Minor features (controller protocol):
14608 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
14609 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
14610 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
14612 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
14613 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
14614 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
14615 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
14616 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
14617 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
14618 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
14619 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
14620 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
14621 arguments we do not recognize.
14623 o Minor features (more useful logging):
14624 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
14625 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
14626 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
14627 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
14628 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
14629 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
14630 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
14631 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
14632 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
14633 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
14634 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
14635 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
14636 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
14637 got suppressed since the last warning.
14638 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
14639 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
14640 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
14641 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
14642 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
14643 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
14644 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
14646 o Minor features (log domains):
14647 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
14648 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
14649 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
14651 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
14652 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
14654 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
14655 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
14656 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
14658 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
14659 during the TLS handshake.
14661 o Minor features (build process):
14662 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
14663 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
14664 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
14666 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
14667 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
14668 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
14670 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
14671 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
14672 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
14673 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
14674 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
14675 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
14677 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
14678 source files Tor was built with.
14679 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
14680 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
14681 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
14682 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
14683 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
14684 speeds up the build considerably.
14686 o Minor features (options / torrc):
14687 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
14688 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
14689 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
14690 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
14691 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
14692 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
14693 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
14694 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
14695 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
14696 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
14697 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
14698 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
14699 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
14700 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
14701 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
14702 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
14703 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
14704 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
14705 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
14706 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
14707 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
14708 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
14709 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
14710 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
14711 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
14712 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
14713 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
14715 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
14716 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
14717 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
14720 o Minor features (unit tests):
14721 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
14722 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
14723 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
14724 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
14725 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
14726 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
14728 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
14729 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
14732 o Minor features (misc):
14733 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
14734 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
14735 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
14736 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
14738 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
14739 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
14740 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
14741 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
14742 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
14744 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
14745 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
14746 open() without checking it.
14747 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
14748 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
14749 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
14750 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
14752 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
14753 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
14754 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
14755 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
14756 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
14757 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
14758 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
14759 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
14760 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
14761 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
14762 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
14763 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
14764 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
14765 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
14766 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
14767 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
14768 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
14769 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
14770 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
14771 based on the time during which we were active and not in
14772 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
14773 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
14774 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
14775 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
14776 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
14777 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
14778 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
14779 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
14781 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
14782 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
14783 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
14784 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
14786 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
14787 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
14788 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
14789 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
14790 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
14792 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
14793 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
14794 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14795 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
14796 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
14797 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
14798 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
14799 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
14800 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
14801 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
14802 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
14803 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
14804 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
14806 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
14807 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
14808 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
14809 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
14810 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
14811 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
14812 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
14813 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
14814 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
14815 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
14816 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
14817 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
14818 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
14819 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
14820 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
14821 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
14822 two-hop circuits are actually created.
14823 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
14824 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
14825 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
14826 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
14828 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
14829 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
14830 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
14831 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
14832 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
14833 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
14834 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
14835 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
14836 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
14838 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
14839 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
14840 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
14841 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
14842 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
14843 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
14844 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
14845 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
14846 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
14847 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
14848 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
14849 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
14850 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
14853 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14854 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
14855 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
14856 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
14857 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14858 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
14859 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
14860 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
14861 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
14862 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
14863 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
14865 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
14866 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
14868 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
14869 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
14870 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
14871 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
14872 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14873 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
14874 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
14875 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
14877 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
14878 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
14879 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
14880 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14881 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
14882 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
14883 discovered by katmagic.
14884 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
14885 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
14887 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
14888 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
14889 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
14890 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
14891 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
14892 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
14893 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
14894 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
14895 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
14897 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
14898 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
14900 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
14901 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
14903 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
14904 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
14906 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
14907 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
14908 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
14909 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
14910 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
14911 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
14912 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
14913 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
14914 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
14915 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
14916 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
14917 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
14918 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
14919 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
14920 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
14922 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
14923 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
14924 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
14925 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
14926 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
14927 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
14928 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
14929 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
14930 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
14932 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
14933 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
14934 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
14936 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
14937 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
14938 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
14939 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
14941 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
14942 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
14943 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
14944 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
14945 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
14946 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
14947 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
14949 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
14950 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
14951 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
14952 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
14953 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
14954 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
14956 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
14957 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
14958 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
14959 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
14960 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
14961 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
14962 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
14963 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14964 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
14966 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
14967 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
14968 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14969 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
14970 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14971 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
14972 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
14973 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
14974 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
14975 control-spec.txt said they were.
14977 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
14978 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
14979 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
14981 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
14982 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14983 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
14984 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
14985 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
14987 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
14988 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
14990 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
14991 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
14992 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
14993 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
14994 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
14995 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
14996 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
14998 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
14999 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
15000 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
15001 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15002 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
15003 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
15004 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
15005 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
15008 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15009 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
15010 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
15011 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
15012 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
15013 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
15014 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
15015 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
15016 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
15017 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
15018 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
15019 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15020 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
15021 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
15022 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
15024 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
15025 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
15026 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
15027 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
15028 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
15029 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15030 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
15032 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
15033 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
15036 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
15037 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
15038 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
15039 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
15040 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
15041 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
15042 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
15043 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
15044 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
15045 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
15046 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
15047 fixes part of bug 3407.
15048 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
15049 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
15050 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
15051 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
15052 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
15053 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
15054 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
15055 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
15056 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
15057 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
15059 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
15060 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
15061 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
15062 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
15063 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
15064 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
15065 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
15066 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15067 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
15068 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
15069 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
15070 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15071 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
15072 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
15073 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
15074 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
15075 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
15077 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
15078 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
15079 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
15080 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
15081 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
15082 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
15083 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
15084 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
15085 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
15086 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
15087 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
15088 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
15090 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
15091 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
15092 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
15093 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
15094 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
15096 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
15097 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
15098 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
15099 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
15101 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
15102 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
15103 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
15104 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
15105 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
15106 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
15107 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
15108 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
15109 structures and defines in or.h for now.
15110 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
15112 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
15113 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
15114 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
15115 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
15116 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
15117 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
15118 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
15119 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
15121 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
15122 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
15123 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
15125 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
15126 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
15127 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
15128 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
15129 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
15130 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
15131 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
15132 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
15133 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
15134 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
15136 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
15138 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
15139 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
15140 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
15141 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
15142 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
15143 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
15144 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
15145 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
15146 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
15147 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
15149 o Documentation changes:
15150 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
15151 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
15153 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
15154 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
15155 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
15156 what should go in a patch.
15157 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
15159 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
15160 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
15161 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
15162 projects directory in svn.
15164 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
15165 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
15166 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
15167 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
15168 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
15169 hidden service usage.
15170 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
15171 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
15172 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
15173 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
15174 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
15177 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
15178 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
15179 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
15180 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
15181 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
15184 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
15185 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
15186 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
15187 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
15188 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
15189 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
15190 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
15191 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
15192 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
15193 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
15194 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
15195 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
15196 via application-level web tricks.
15197 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
15198 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
15199 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
15200 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
15201 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
15202 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
15203 send a body too). Since only server versions before
15204 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
15205 keep the workaround in place.
15206 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
15207 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
15208 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
15209 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
15210 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
15211 want to do it differently.
15212 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
15213 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
15214 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
15217 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
15218 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
15219 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
15220 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
15221 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
15222 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
15225 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
15226 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
15227 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
15228 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
15229 the rest of bug 1074.
15230 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
15231 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
15232 Found by "piebeer".
15233 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
15234 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
15235 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
15236 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
15237 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
15238 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
15239 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15242 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
15244 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15247 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
15248 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
15249 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
15250 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
15251 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
15252 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
15253 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
15254 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
15255 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
15256 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
15257 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15259 o Packaging changes:
15260 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
15261 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
15262 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
15263 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
15264 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
15265 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
15268 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
15269 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
15270 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
15271 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
15272 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
15274 o Major bugfixes (security):
15275 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
15276 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
15277 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
15279 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
15280 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
15281 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
15282 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
15283 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
15284 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
15285 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
15286 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
15288 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
15289 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
15290 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
15291 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
15292 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
15293 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
15294 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
15295 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
15296 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
15297 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
15298 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
15299 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
15300 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
15301 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
15304 o Minor bugfixes (other):
15305 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
15306 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
15307 bug reported by doorss.
15308 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
15309 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
15310 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15311 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
15312 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
15314 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
15315 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
15316 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
15317 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
15318 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
15321 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15322 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
15325 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
15326 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
15327 Automake 1.7 or later.
15328 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
15329 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
15330 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
15331 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
15334 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
15335 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
15336 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
15337 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
15341 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
15342 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
15343 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
15344 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
15346 o Directory authority changes:
15347 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
15350 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15353 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
15354 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
15355 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
15356 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
15357 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
15360 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
15361 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
15362 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
15363 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
15364 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
15365 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
15366 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
15367 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
15368 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
15369 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
15370 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
15371 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
15372 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
15373 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
15374 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
15375 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
15376 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
15377 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
15378 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
15379 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
15380 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
15381 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
15382 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
15385 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
15386 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
15387 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
15388 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
15390 o New directory authorities:
15391 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
15395 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
15396 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
15397 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
15399 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
15400 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
15401 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
15402 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
15403 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
15404 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
15406 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
15407 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
15408 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
15411 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
15412 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
15413 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
15414 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
15415 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
15416 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
15417 Patch from mingw-san.
15420 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
15421 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
15422 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
15423 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
15424 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
15425 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
15428 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
15429 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
15430 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
15431 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
15432 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
15434 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
15435 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
15438 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
15439 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
15440 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
15441 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
15442 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
15443 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
15444 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
15445 their directory fetches over TLS).
15446 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
15447 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
15448 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
15449 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
15450 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
15451 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
15452 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
15453 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
15456 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
15457 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
15461 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
15462 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15463 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
15464 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
15465 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
15466 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
15467 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15470 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
15471 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
15472 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
15473 several minor potential security bugs.
15476 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
15477 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
15478 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
15479 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
15480 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
15481 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
15482 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
15485 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
15486 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
15488 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
15489 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
15490 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
15491 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
15494 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
15495 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
15499 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
15500 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
15501 customized patches to run/build.
15504 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
15505 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
15506 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
15509 o Major bugfixes (performance):
15510 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
15511 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
15512 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
15513 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
15514 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
15515 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
15516 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
15519 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
15520 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
15521 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
15522 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
15523 libraries in a security patch.
15524 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
15525 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
15526 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
15527 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
15531 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
15532 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
15535 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
15536 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
15537 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
15538 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
15539 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
15542 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
15543 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
15544 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
15545 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
15546 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
15548 o Directory authority changes:
15549 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
15553 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
15554 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
15555 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15558 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
15559 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
15560 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
15561 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
15562 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
15565 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
15566 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
15567 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
15568 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
15569 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
15570 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
15571 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
15574 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
15575 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
15576 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15577 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
15578 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
15579 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
15581 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
15582 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
15585 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
15586 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
15587 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
15588 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
15590 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
15591 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
15593 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
15594 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
15595 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
15596 in the Vidalia Settings window.
15599 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
15600 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
15601 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
15602 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
15603 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
15605 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
15606 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
15608 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
15609 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
15610 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
15613 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
15614 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
15615 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
15617 o New directory authorities:
15618 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
15620 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
15623 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
15624 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
15626 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
15627 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
15628 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
15629 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
15630 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
15631 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
15632 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15633 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
15634 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
15635 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
15636 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
15637 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
15638 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
15639 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
15640 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
15641 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
15642 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
15644 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
15645 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
15646 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
15648 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
15649 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
15653 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
15654 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
15655 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
15656 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
15657 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
15660 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
15661 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
15665 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
15666 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
15667 part of patch provided by "optimist".
15670 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
15671 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
15672 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
15673 and confuse fewer users.
15676 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
15677 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
15678 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
15679 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
15680 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
15681 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
15682 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
15685 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
15686 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
15687 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
15688 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
15689 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
15690 other features and bug fixes.
15692 o Major features (clients):
15693 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
15694 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
15695 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
15696 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
15698 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
15699 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
15700 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
15701 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
15702 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
15703 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
15704 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
15705 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
15706 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
15707 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
15709 o Major features (relays):
15710 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
15711 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
15712 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
15713 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
15714 data. Found by Jacob.
15715 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
15716 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
15717 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
15718 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
15720 o Major features (hidden services):
15721 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
15722 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
15723 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
15724 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
15725 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
15726 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
15727 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
15728 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
15729 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
15730 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
15731 lookups more reliable.
15733 o Major features (path selection):
15734 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
15735 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
15736 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
15737 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
15738 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
15740 o Major features (misc):
15741 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
15742 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
15744 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
15745 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
15746 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
15747 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
15748 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
15749 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
15751 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
15752 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
15753 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
15754 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
15756 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
15759 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
15760 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
15761 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
15762 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
15763 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
15764 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
15765 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
15766 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
15767 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
15768 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
15769 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
15770 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
15771 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
15772 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
15773 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
15774 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
15775 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
15776 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
15777 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
15778 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
15779 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
15780 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
15781 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
15782 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
15783 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
15784 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
15785 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
15786 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
15787 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
15788 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
15789 Implements proposal 148.
15791 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
15792 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
15793 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
15794 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
15795 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
15796 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
15798 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
15799 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
15800 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
15801 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
15802 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
15803 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
15804 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
15805 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
15806 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
15808 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
15809 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
15810 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
15811 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
15813 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
15814 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
15815 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
15816 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
15817 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
15818 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
15819 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
15820 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
15821 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15823 o Major bugfixes (clients):
15824 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
15825 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
15826 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
15827 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
15828 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
15829 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
15830 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
15831 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
15832 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
15833 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
15834 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
15835 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
15836 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
15837 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
15838 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
15841 o Major bugfixes (relays):
15842 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
15843 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
15844 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
15845 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
15846 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
15847 patch by Sebastian.
15848 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
15849 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
15850 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
15851 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
15852 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
15853 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
15854 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
15855 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
15856 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
15857 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
15860 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
15861 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
15862 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
15863 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
15864 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
15865 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
15867 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
15868 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
15869 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
15870 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
15871 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
15872 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
15873 on a typical directory cache.
15874 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
15875 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
15876 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
15877 and may reduce fragmentation.
15879 o New/changed config options:
15880 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
15881 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
15882 Suggested by Lucky Green.
15883 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
15884 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
15885 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
15886 locked down these days.
15887 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
15888 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
15889 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
15890 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
15891 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
15892 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
15893 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
15894 output to messages of warning and error severity.
15895 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
15896 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
15897 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
15898 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
15899 directory requests we should expect to see.
15900 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
15901 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
15902 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
15903 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
15904 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
15905 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
15906 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
15908 o Minor features (relays):
15909 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
15910 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
15911 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
15912 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
15913 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
15915 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
15916 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
15917 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
15918 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
15919 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
15920 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
15921 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
15922 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
15923 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
15924 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
15925 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
15926 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
15927 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
15929 o Minor features (directory authorities):
15930 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
15931 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
15932 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
15933 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
15934 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
15935 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
15936 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
15937 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
15938 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
15939 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
15941 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
15942 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
15943 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
15944 fingerprints with or without space.
15946 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
15947 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
15948 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
15949 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
15950 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
15951 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
15952 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
15953 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
15954 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
15956 o Minor features (bridges):
15957 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
15958 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
15960 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
15961 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
15964 o Minor features (hidden services):
15965 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
15966 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
15967 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
15968 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
15969 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
15970 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
15971 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
15972 faster after restart.
15973 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
15974 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
15976 o Minor features (build and packaging):
15977 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
15979 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
15980 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
15982 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
15983 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
15984 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
15985 entirely. Patch from coderman.
15986 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
15987 are built without support for deprecated functions.
15988 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
15989 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
15990 system to do it for us.
15991 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
15992 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
15993 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
15994 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
15995 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
15996 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
15997 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
15998 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
15999 the letter of C99's alias rules.
16000 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
16001 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
16002 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
16003 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
16004 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
16005 with log.h on Android.
16006 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
16007 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
16009 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
16010 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
16011 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
16012 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
16014 o Minor features (controllers):
16015 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
16016 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
16017 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
16018 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
16019 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
16020 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
16021 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
16022 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
16023 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
16024 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
16026 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
16027 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
16028 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
16029 been fetched and validated.
16030 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
16031 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
16033 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
16035 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
16036 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
16037 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
16038 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
16039 partway through and wants to catch up.
16040 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
16042 o Minor features (tools):
16043 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
16044 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
16045 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
16046 people find host:port too confusing.
16047 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
16048 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
16050 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
16051 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
16052 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
16053 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
16054 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
16055 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
16056 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
16057 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
16058 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
16060 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
16061 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
16062 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
16063 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
16064 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
16066 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
16067 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
16068 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
16070 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
16071 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16072 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
16073 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
16074 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
16075 have already been marked for close.
16076 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
16077 memory performance during directory parsing.
16079 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
16080 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
16081 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
16082 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
16083 done that for a long time.
16084 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
16085 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
16086 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
16087 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
16088 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
16089 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
16090 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
16091 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
16092 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
16093 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
16094 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
16095 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
16096 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
16097 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
16098 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
16099 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
16100 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
16101 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
16102 because of a pending download.
16103 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
16104 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
16105 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
16106 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
16107 bug 820, reported by seeess.
16109 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
16110 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
16111 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
16112 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
16113 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
16114 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
16115 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
16116 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
16117 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
16119 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
16120 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
16122 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
16123 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
16124 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
16125 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
16126 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
16127 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
16128 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
16129 of 0. Suggested by lark.
16130 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
16131 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
16132 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
16133 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
16134 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
16136 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
16137 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
16138 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
16140 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
16141 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
16143 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
16144 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
16145 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
16146 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
16147 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
16148 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
16149 rest, and don't automatically fail.
16150 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
16151 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
16152 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
16153 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
16154 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
16155 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
16157 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
16158 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
16159 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
16160 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
16161 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
16162 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
16163 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
16165 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
16166 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16168 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16169 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
16170 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
16171 Workaround for bug 1024.
16172 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
16173 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
16174 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
16175 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
16176 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
16177 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
16178 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
16179 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
16182 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
16183 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
16186 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
16187 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
16188 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
16189 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
16190 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
16191 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
16192 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
16194 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
16195 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
16196 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
16197 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
16198 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
16199 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
16200 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
16201 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
16204 o Deprecated and removed features:
16205 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
16206 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
16207 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
16209 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
16211 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
16212 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
16213 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
16214 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
16215 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
16216 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
16217 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
16218 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
16219 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
16220 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
16221 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
16222 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
16223 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
16224 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
16227 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
16228 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
16229 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
16230 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
16231 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
16233 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
16234 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
16235 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
16236 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
16237 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
16238 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
16239 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
16240 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
16241 actual mistakes we're making here.
16242 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
16243 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
16244 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
16245 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
16246 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
16247 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
16248 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
16249 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
16250 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
16251 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
16252 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
16253 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
16254 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
16255 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
16256 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
16259 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
16261 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
16262 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
16263 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
16264 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
16265 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
16268 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
16269 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
16270 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
16271 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
16272 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
16273 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
16274 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
16275 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
16276 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
16277 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
16280 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
16281 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
16282 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
16283 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
16284 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
16285 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
16286 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
16287 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
16290 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
16291 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
16292 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
16293 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
16294 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
16296 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
16297 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
16298 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
16299 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
16302 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
16303 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
16304 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
16305 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
16306 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
16307 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
16308 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
16309 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
16312 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
16313 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
16314 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
16315 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
16318 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
16319 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
16320 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
16321 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
16323 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
16324 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
16325 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
16328 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
16329 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
16332 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
16333 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
16334 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
16335 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
16336 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
16337 reported by "wood".
16338 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
16339 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
16340 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
16341 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
16342 identify a connection.
16343 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
16344 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
16345 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
16346 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
16347 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
16348 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
16349 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
16350 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
16351 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
16352 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
16354 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
16355 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
16356 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
16357 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
16358 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
16359 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
16360 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
16363 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
16364 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
16366 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
16367 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
16368 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
16369 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
16370 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
16371 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
16372 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16373 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
16375 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
16376 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
16377 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
16378 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
16379 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
16380 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
16381 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
16382 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
16383 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
16384 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
16385 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
16386 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
16387 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
16388 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
16389 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
16390 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
16391 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
16392 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
16393 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
16394 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
16395 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
16396 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
16397 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
16398 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
16399 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
16400 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
16401 840. Patch from rovv.
16402 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
16403 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
16404 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
16406 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
16407 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
16408 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
16409 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
16410 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
16411 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
16412 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
16414 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16415 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
16416 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
16419 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
16420 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
16422 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
16423 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
16424 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
16425 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
16426 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
16427 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
16428 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
16429 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
16430 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
16432 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
16434 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
16435 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
16439 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
16440 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
16441 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
16442 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
16443 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
16444 variety of other issues.
16447 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
16448 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
16449 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
16450 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
16451 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
16452 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
16453 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
16454 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
16455 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
16456 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
16457 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
16458 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
16461 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
16462 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
16464 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16465 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
16466 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
16467 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
16468 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
16469 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
16470 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16471 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
16472 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
16473 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
16474 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
16475 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
16476 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
16477 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
16478 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
16482 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
16483 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
16484 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
16485 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
16486 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
16487 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
16488 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
16489 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
16490 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
16491 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
16492 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
16493 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
16494 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
16495 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
16496 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
16497 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
16498 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
16499 list. It has been gone for many months.
16500 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
16501 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
16502 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
16505 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16506 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
16507 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
16510 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
16511 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
16512 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
16513 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
16516 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
16517 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
16518 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
16519 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
16520 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
16521 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
16523 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
16524 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
16525 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
16526 pointed out by rovv.
16529 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
16530 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16531 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
16532 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
16533 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
16534 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
16535 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
16536 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
16537 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
16538 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16539 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
16540 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
16541 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
16542 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
16543 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
16544 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
16545 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
16546 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
16547 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
16548 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
16549 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
16552 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
16553 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
16554 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
16555 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
16556 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
16557 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
16558 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
16560 o New v3 directory design:
16561 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
16562 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
16563 network status document rather than each publishing their own
16564 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
16565 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
16566 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
16567 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
16569 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
16570 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
16571 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
16572 dannenberg (run by CCC).
16573 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
16574 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
16575 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
16576 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
16577 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
16578 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
16579 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
16580 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
16581 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
16582 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
16584 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
16585 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
16586 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
16587 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
16588 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
16589 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
16590 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
16591 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
16592 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
16593 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
16594 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
16595 certain censored countries by default again.
16596 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
16597 Tor's x509 certificates.
16599 o Implement bridge relays:
16600 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
16601 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
16602 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
16603 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
16604 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
16605 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
16606 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
16607 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
16608 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
16609 rather than "v2,v3".
16610 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
16611 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
16612 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
16613 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
16614 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
16615 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
16616 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
16617 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
16618 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
16619 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
16620 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
16622 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
16623 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
16624 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
16625 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
16626 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
16627 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
16628 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
16629 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
16630 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
16631 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
16632 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
16633 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
16634 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
16635 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
16636 bridges are functioning.
16637 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
16638 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
16639 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
16640 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
16641 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
16642 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
16643 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
16644 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
16645 knows that password. Unset by default.
16646 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
16647 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
16648 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
16649 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
16650 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
16651 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
16652 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
16653 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
16654 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
16655 and bridges@torproject.org.
16657 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
16658 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
16659 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
16660 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
16661 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
16662 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
16663 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
16664 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
16665 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
16666 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
16667 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
16668 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
16669 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
16670 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
16671 longer a completely silly thing to do.
16673 o Major features (relay usability):
16674 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
16675 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
16676 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
16677 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
16678 proposal 111 for details.
16679 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
16680 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
16681 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
16682 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
16684 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
16685 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
16686 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
16688 o Major features (directory authorities):
16689 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
16690 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
16691 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
16692 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
16693 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
16694 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
16695 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
16696 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
16697 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
16698 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
16699 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
16700 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
16701 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
16703 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
16704 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
16705 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
16706 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
16707 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
16708 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
16709 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
16710 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
16711 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
16712 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
16713 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
16714 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
16715 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
16716 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
16717 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
16718 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
16719 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
16720 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
16721 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
16722 general, controller, or bridge.
16724 o Major features (other):
16725 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
16726 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
16727 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
16728 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
16729 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
16730 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
16731 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
16732 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
16733 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
16734 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
16735 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
16736 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
16737 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
16738 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
16741 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
16742 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
16743 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
16745 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
16746 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
16747 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
16748 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
16749 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
16750 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
16751 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
16752 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
16753 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
16754 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
16755 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
16757 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
16758 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
16760 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
16761 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
16762 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
16763 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
16765 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
16766 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
16767 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
16768 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
16769 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
16771 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
16772 address maps to an internal address space.
16773 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
16774 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
16775 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
16776 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
16777 complements proposal 107.
16778 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
16779 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
16780 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
16781 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
16782 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
16783 reported by taranis and lodger.
16784 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
16785 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
16786 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
16787 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
16788 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
16789 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
16790 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
16791 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
16792 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
16793 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
16794 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
16795 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
16796 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
16798 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
16799 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
16801 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
16802 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
16803 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
16804 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
16805 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
16806 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
16807 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
16809 o Major bugfixes (other):
16810 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
16811 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
16812 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
16814 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
16815 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
16816 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
16817 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
16818 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
16819 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
16820 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
16821 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
16822 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
16823 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
16824 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
16825 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
16826 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
16827 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
16828 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
16829 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
16830 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
16831 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
16832 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
16834 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
16835 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
16836 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
16837 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
16838 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
16839 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
16840 eat all of our bandwidth.
16841 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
16842 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
16843 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
16844 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
16845 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
16846 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
16847 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
16848 bug 688, reported by mfr.
16849 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
16850 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
16851 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
16852 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
16854 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
16855 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
16856 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
16857 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
16858 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
16859 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
16860 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
16861 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
16862 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
16863 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
16864 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
16865 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
16867 o Performance improvements (memory):
16868 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
16869 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
16870 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
16871 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
16872 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
16873 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
16874 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
16875 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
16876 memory fragmentation.
16877 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
16878 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
16879 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
16880 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
16881 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
16883 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
16884 of them were actually distinct.
16885 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
16887 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
16888 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
16889 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
16890 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
16891 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
16892 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
16893 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
16894 performance-intensive.
16895 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
16896 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
16897 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
16898 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
16899 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
16902 o Performance improvements (socket management):
16903 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
16904 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
16905 our allocated connection limit.
16906 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
16907 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
16908 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
16909 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
16910 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
16912 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
16913 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
16915 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
16916 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
16917 is interested in a given message.
16918 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
16919 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
16920 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
16921 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
16922 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
16924 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
16925 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
16926 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
16928 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
16929 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
16930 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
16931 they are the same).
16932 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
16933 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
16934 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
16935 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
16938 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
16939 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
16940 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
16941 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
16942 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
16943 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
16944 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
16946 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
16947 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
16948 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
16949 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
16950 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
16951 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
16952 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
16953 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
16954 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
16955 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
16956 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
16957 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
16958 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
16961 o Changed config option behavior (features):
16962 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
16963 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
16964 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
16965 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
16966 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
16967 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
16968 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
16969 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
16970 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
16971 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
16972 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
16973 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
16974 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
16975 and are reaching it.
16976 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
16977 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
16978 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
16979 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
16981 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
16982 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
16983 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
16984 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
16985 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
16986 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
16987 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
16988 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
16989 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
16991 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
16992 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
16993 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
16994 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
16995 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
16996 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
16997 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
16998 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
17000 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
17001 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
17003 o New config options:
17004 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
17005 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
17006 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
17007 running a test network on a single host.
17008 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
17009 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
17010 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
17011 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
17012 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
17013 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
17014 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
17015 the approved-routers file.
17016 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
17017 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
17018 v2 directory information.
17020 o Minor features (other):
17021 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
17022 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
17023 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
17024 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
17025 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
17026 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
17028 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
17029 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
17030 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
17031 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
17032 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
17033 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
17034 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
17036 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
17037 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
17038 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
17040 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
17041 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
17042 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
17043 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
17044 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
17046 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
17047 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
17048 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
17049 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
17050 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
17051 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
17052 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
17054 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
17055 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
17056 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
17057 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
17058 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
17059 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
17060 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
17061 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
17062 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
17065 o Minor bugfixes (other):
17066 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
17067 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
17069 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
17070 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
17071 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
17072 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
17073 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
17074 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
17076 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
17077 bandwidthburst values.
17078 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
17079 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
17080 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
17081 to mark all our entry points down.
17082 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
17083 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
17084 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
17085 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
17086 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
17088 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
17089 more often than they are allowed to appear.
17090 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
17091 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
17092 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
17093 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
17094 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
17095 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
17096 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
17098 o Controller features:
17099 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
17100 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
17101 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
17102 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
17103 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
17104 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
17106 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
17107 multiple controller passwords.
17108 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
17109 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
17110 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
17111 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
17113 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
17114 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
17115 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
17116 cookie authentication file, and config option
17117 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
17118 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
17119 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
17120 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
17122 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
17123 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
17124 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
17125 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
17126 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
17127 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
17128 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
17130 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
17131 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
17133 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
17134 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
17135 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
17136 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
17137 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
17138 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
17139 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
17140 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
17141 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
17142 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
17143 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
17144 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
17145 report the value as a "minimum skew."
17147 o Controller bugfixes:
17148 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
17149 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
17150 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
17151 processes can't run us out of memory.
17152 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
17153 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
17154 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
17156 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
17157 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
17158 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
17159 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
17160 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
17161 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
17162 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
17163 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
17164 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
17165 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
17166 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
17167 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
17168 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
17169 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
17170 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
17172 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
17173 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
17175 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
17176 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
17177 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
17178 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
17179 WARN-severity events.
17181 o Portability / building / compiling:
17182 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
17183 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
17184 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
17185 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
17186 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
17187 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
17188 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
17189 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
17190 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
17191 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
17192 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
17193 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
17194 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
17196 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
17197 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
17198 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
17199 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
17200 Use this version consistently in log messages.
17201 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
17202 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
17203 partial results on small file reads.
17204 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
17205 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
17206 a directory. Fix from lodger.
17207 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
17208 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
17209 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
17211 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
17212 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
17213 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
17214 logging for the unit tests.
17215 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
17216 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
17218 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
17219 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
17221 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
17222 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
17223 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
17224 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
17227 o Logging improvements:
17228 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
17229 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
17230 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
17231 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
17232 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
17233 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
17234 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
17236 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
17237 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
17238 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
17239 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
17240 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
17241 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
17242 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
17243 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
17244 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
17245 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
17246 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
17247 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
17248 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
17249 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
17250 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
17251 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
17252 Good in combination with --hash-password.
17253 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
17254 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
17256 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
17257 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
17258 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
17259 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
17261 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
17262 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
17263 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
17264 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
17265 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
17267 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
17268 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
17269 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
17270 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
17271 makes the log messages nicer.
17272 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
17273 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
17275 o Contributed scripts and tools:
17276 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
17277 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
17279 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
17280 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
17281 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
17282 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
17283 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
17284 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
17285 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
17286 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
17287 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
17288 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
17290 o Newly deprecated features:
17291 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
17292 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
17293 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
17294 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
17296 o Removed features:
17297 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
17298 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
17299 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
17300 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
17301 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
17303 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
17304 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
17305 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
17306 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
17307 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
17308 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
17309 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
17310 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
17312 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
17313 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
17314 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
17315 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
17316 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
17317 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
17319 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
17320 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
17321 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
17322 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
17323 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
17324 patch from Karsten Loesing.
17325 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
17326 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
17327 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
17328 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
17329 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
17330 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
17331 code), this assumption no longer holds.
17332 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
17336 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
17337 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
17338 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
17339 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
17342 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
17343 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
17344 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
17345 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
17346 on network address.
17349 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
17350 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
17351 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
17352 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
17353 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
17354 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
17355 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
17356 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
17357 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
17358 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
17359 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
17360 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
17363 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
17364 rebuild our server descriptor.
17365 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
17366 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
17367 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
17368 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
17369 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
17370 nonstandard integer types.
17371 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
17372 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
17373 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
17374 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
17375 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
17377 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
17378 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
17379 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
17380 when they receive them.
17381 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
17382 This includes some 64-bit systems.
17383 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
17384 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
17385 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
17386 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
17387 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
17388 router_get_by_hexdigest().
17389 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
17390 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
17394 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
17395 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
17396 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
17397 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
17398 lists for a few hours each day.
17400 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
17401 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
17402 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
17403 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
17404 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
17405 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
17406 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
17407 rend_process_relay_cell().
17409 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17410 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
17411 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
17412 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
17413 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
17414 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
17415 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
17416 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
17418 o Major bugfixes (other):
17419 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
17420 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
17421 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
17422 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
17423 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
17424 circuit cannibalization).
17425 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
17426 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
17427 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
17428 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
17429 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
17430 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
17433 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
17434 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
17436 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
17437 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
17438 absent. Resolves bug 467.
17439 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
17440 a way to trigger this remotely.)
17441 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
17442 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
17443 were reporting the dir port.)
17444 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
17445 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
17446 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
17447 the future. Fixes bug 434.
17448 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
17450 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
17451 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
17452 the onion key from getting rotated.
17453 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
17454 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
17455 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
17456 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
17457 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
17458 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
17459 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
17462 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
17463 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
17464 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
17465 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
17466 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
17469 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
17470 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
17473 o Major bugfixes (security):
17474 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
17475 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
17476 become more of a headache than it's worth.
17478 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
17479 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
17480 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
17482 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
17483 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
17484 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
17485 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
17486 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
17487 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
17489 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
17490 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
17491 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
17492 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
17493 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
17495 o Minor features (controller):
17496 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
17497 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
17498 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
17499 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
17501 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
17502 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
17503 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
17504 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
17505 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
17506 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
17507 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
17508 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
17510 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
17511 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
17512 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
17513 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
17514 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
17515 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
17516 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
17517 if we ran off the end of the list.
17518 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
17519 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
17520 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
17521 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
17522 every time we change any piece of our config.
17523 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
17524 encourage people using them to stop.
17525 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
17527 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
17528 servers to choose a circuit.
17529 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
17530 unparseable piece of it.
17533 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
17534 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
17535 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
17536 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
17537 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
17538 TorK, etc. Or worse.
17540 o Major security fixes:
17541 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
17542 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
17545 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
17546 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
17547 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
17548 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
17550 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
17551 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
17553 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
17554 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
17555 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
17556 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
17557 routerlist while inserting a new router.
17558 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
17559 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
17561 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
17562 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
17563 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
17565 o Major bugfixes (security):
17566 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
17568 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
17569 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
17570 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
17571 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
17572 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
17573 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
17574 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
17575 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
17576 guard list unless we need to.
17578 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
17579 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
17580 don't get overused as guards.
17582 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
17583 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
17584 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
17585 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
17586 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
17588 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17589 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
17590 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
17593 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
17594 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
17595 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
17596 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
17597 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
17598 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
17599 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
17600 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
17603 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
17604 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
17605 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
17606 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
17608 o Directory authority changes:
17609 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
17610 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
17611 or use hidden services.
17613 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
17614 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
17615 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
17616 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
17617 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
17618 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
17619 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
17620 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
17621 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
17624 o Major bugfixes (security):
17625 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
17626 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
17627 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
17629 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
17630 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
17631 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
17632 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
17633 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
17634 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
17635 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
17636 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
17637 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
17638 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
17641 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
17642 purpose=controller.
17643 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
17644 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
17646 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
17647 having a hard time downloading.
17648 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
17649 partial results on small file reads.
17650 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
17651 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
17652 the gaps in the store get very large.
17655 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
17656 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
17658 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
17659 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
17662 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
17663 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
17664 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
17665 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
17666 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
17667 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
17669 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
17670 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
17671 free speech on the Internet.
17673 o Major features, client performance:
17674 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
17675 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
17676 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
17677 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
17678 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
17679 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
17680 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
17681 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
17682 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
17683 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
17684 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
17685 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
17686 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
17687 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
17688 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
17690 o Major features, client functionality:
17691 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
17692 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
17693 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
17694 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
17695 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
17696 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
17697 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
17698 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
17699 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
17700 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
17701 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
17702 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
17703 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
17705 o Major features, servers:
17706 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
17707 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
17708 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
17709 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
17710 authenticated, so use with care.
17711 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
17712 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
17713 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
17715 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
17716 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
17717 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
17718 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
17719 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
17720 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
17722 o Improvements on DNS support:
17723 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
17724 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
17725 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
17726 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
17727 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
17728 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
17729 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
17730 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
17731 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
17732 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
17733 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
17734 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
17735 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
17736 lets you turn it off.
17737 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
17738 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
17739 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
17740 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
17741 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
17742 useful to the network.
17743 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
17744 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
17745 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
17746 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
17747 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
17748 our tests for DNS hijacking.
17750 o Improvements on reachability testing:
17751 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
17752 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
17753 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
17754 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
17755 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
17756 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
17757 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
17758 if their identity keys are as expected.
17759 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
17760 chews through many circuits before giving up.
17761 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
17762 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
17763 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
17764 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
17765 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
17766 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
17767 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
17768 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
17769 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
17770 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
17771 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
17772 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
17774 o Improvements on rate limiting:
17775 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
17776 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
17777 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
17778 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
17779 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
17781 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
17782 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
17783 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
17784 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
17785 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
17786 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
17787 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
17788 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
17790 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
17791 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
17793 o Major features, NT services:
17794 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
17795 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
17796 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
17797 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
17798 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
17799 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
17800 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
17802 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
17803 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
17804 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
17806 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
17807 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
17808 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
17810 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
17811 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
17813 o Directory authority improvements:
17814 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
17816 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
17817 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
17818 too much load to the exit nodes.
17819 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
17820 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
17821 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
17822 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
17823 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
17824 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
17825 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
17826 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
17827 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
17828 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
17829 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
17830 broken. Not used yet.
17831 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
17832 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
17833 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
17834 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
17835 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
17836 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
17837 non-versioning dirservers.
17838 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
17839 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
17840 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
17842 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
17843 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
17844 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
17845 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
17847 o Directory mirrors and clients:
17848 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
17849 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
17850 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
17851 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
17852 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
17853 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
17854 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
17855 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
17856 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
17857 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
17858 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
17859 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
17860 routers for even longer.
17861 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
17862 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
17863 caching HTTP proxies.
17864 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
17865 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
17866 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
17867 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
17869 o Major fixes, crashes:
17870 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
17871 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
17872 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
17873 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
17875 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
17876 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
17877 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
17878 stream is detached.
17879 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
17880 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
17881 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
17882 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
17883 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
17884 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
17885 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
17886 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
17887 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
17888 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
17890 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
17891 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
17892 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
17893 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
17894 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
17895 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
17896 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
17897 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
17898 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
17899 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
17900 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
17901 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
17902 could return an unnamed server instead.
17903 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
17904 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
17905 a more attractive target for compromise.)
17906 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
17907 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
17908 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
17909 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
17911 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
17912 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
17914 o Major fixes, other:
17915 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
17916 uptime in the descriptor.
17917 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
17918 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
17919 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
17920 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
17921 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
17922 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
17923 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
17924 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
17925 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
17926 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
17927 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
17928 our DirPort now, etc.
17929 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
17930 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
17931 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
17933 o New config options or behaviors:
17934 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
17935 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
17936 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
17937 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
17938 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
17939 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
17940 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
17941 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
17942 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
17943 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
17944 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
17945 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
17947 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
17948 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
17949 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
17950 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
17951 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
17953 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
17954 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
17955 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
17956 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
17957 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
17958 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
17959 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
17960 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
17961 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
17962 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
17963 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
17964 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
17965 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
17966 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
17967 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
17968 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
17969 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
17970 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
17971 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
17972 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
17973 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
17974 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
17975 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
17976 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
17977 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
17978 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
17979 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
17980 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
17981 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
17982 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
17984 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
17985 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
17986 your ORPort is set.
17989 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
17990 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
17992 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
17993 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
17994 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
17995 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
17997 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
17998 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
17999 whether the config options are bad or good.
18000 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
18001 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
18002 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
18003 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
18004 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
18005 result more than once.
18006 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
18007 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
18008 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
18009 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
18010 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
18011 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
18012 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
18013 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
18014 before we check for libevent.
18015 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
18016 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
18017 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
18018 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
18019 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
18020 recommendation system saner.)
18021 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
18022 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
18023 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
18024 now universal binaries.
18025 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
18026 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
18028 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
18030 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
18031 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
18032 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
18033 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
18034 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
18035 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
18037 o Minor features, controller:
18038 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
18039 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
18040 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
18042 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
18043 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
18044 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
18045 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
18046 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
18047 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
18048 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
18050 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
18051 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
18052 connected or resolved cell.
18053 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
18054 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
18055 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
18056 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
18057 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
18058 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
18059 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
18061 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
18062 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
18063 entry guard status as it changes.
18064 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
18065 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
18066 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
18067 watching for STREAM events.
18068 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
18069 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
18070 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
18071 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
18073 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
18074 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
18075 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
18076 working much like those for circuit events.
18077 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
18078 about the current status of a router.
18079 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
18080 a router's status has changed.
18081 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
18082 can tell which events and features are supported.
18083 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
18084 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
18085 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
18086 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
18087 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
18088 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
18089 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
18090 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
18091 for more information.
18092 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
18093 best guess to the user.
18094 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
18095 descriptor has changed.
18096 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
18097 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
18098 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
18100 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
18101 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
18102 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
18103 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
18104 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
18105 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
18106 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
18107 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
18108 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
18109 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
18110 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
18112 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
18113 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
18115 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
18116 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
18117 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
18119 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
18120 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
18121 the controller from learning about current events.
18122 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
18123 reported by Mike Perry.
18124 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
18125 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
18126 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
18127 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
18128 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
18129 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
18130 long nicknames where appropriate.
18131 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
18132 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
18134 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
18135 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
18136 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
18137 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
18138 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
18140 o Minor features, code performance:
18141 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
18142 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
18143 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
18145 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
18146 some profiles, but not others.)
18147 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
18148 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
18149 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
18150 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
18151 operations, for profiling.
18152 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
18153 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
18154 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
18155 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
18156 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
18157 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
18158 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
18159 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
18161 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
18162 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
18163 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
18164 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
18165 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
18166 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
18167 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
18168 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
18169 family lists conveniently.
18171 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
18172 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
18173 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
18174 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
18175 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
18176 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
18177 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
18178 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
18179 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
18180 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
18181 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
18182 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
18183 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
18184 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
18185 of it), is not therefore "up".
18187 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
18188 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
18189 what version a router is running.
18190 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
18191 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
18192 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
18193 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
18195 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
18196 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
18197 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
18198 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
18199 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
18202 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
18203 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
18204 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
18206 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
18207 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
18209 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
18210 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
18211 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
18212 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
18213 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
18214 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
18215 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
18216 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
18217 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
18218 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
18220 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
18221 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
18222 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
18223 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
18224 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
18225 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
18226 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
18227 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
18228 get one we don't recognize.
18231 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
18232 o Security bugfixes:
18233 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
18234 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
18235 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
18236 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
18240 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
18241 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
18242 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
18245 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
18247 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
18248 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
18249 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
18250 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
18251 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
18252 its circuits on demand.
18253 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
18254 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
18255 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
18256 connections more stable on average.
18257 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
18258 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
18259 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
18261 o Security bugfixes:
18262 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
18263 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
18266 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
18268 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
18269 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
18270 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
18271 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
18272 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
18273 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
18274 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
18275 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
18278 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
18280 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
18281 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
18282 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
18283 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
18284 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
18285 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
18286 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
18287 it can't resolve its hostname.
18288 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
18289 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
18290 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
18293 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
18294 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
18295 "extendcircuit" request.
18296 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
18297 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
18298 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
18299 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
18301 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
18302 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
18303 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
18305 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
18306 methods: these are known to be buggy.
18307 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
18308 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
18309 we don't recognize.
18312 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
18314 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
18315 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
18316 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
18317 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
18318 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
18319 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
18320 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
18321 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
18322 test reachability, so you won't publish.
18325 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
18326 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
18327 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
18328 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
18329 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
18331 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
18332 own server descriptor yet.
18335 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
18337 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
18338 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
18339 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
18340 make sure to test via one of these.
18341 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
18342 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
18343 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
18344 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
18345 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
18347 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
18348 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
18349 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
18352 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
18353 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
18354 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
18355 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
18356 directory authority.
18357 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
18358 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
18359 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
18360 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
18363 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
18364 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
18365 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
18367 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
18368 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
18369 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
18370 current guards when picking a new guard.
18371 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
18372 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
18373 when we had more than one pending.
18374 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
18375 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
18376 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
18377 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
18378 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
18379 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
18380 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
18381 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
18382 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
18383 debug the reachability problems better.
18385 o Log / documentation fixes:
18386 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
18387 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
18388 about protocol violations by others.
18389 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
18390 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
18391 about what happened to our old torrc.
18394 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
18395 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
18396 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
18397 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
18398 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
18399 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
18401 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
18402 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
18403 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
18404 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
18405 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
18406 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
18407 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
18408 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
18409 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
18410 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
18411 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
18412 on malicious huge inputs.
18414 o Security fixes, major:
18415 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
18416 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
18417 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
18418 misreading their logs.
18419 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
18420 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
18421 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
18422 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
18423 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
18424 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
18425 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
18426 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
18427 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
18428 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
18429 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
18430 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
18431 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
18432 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
18434 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
18435 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
18436 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
18437 firewall options forbid.
18438 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
18439 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
18440 can only proxy to certain destinations.
18441 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
18442 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
18443 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
18445 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
18446 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
18447 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
18448 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
18449 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
18450 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
18451 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
18452 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
18453 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
18454 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
18455 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
18456 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
18457 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
18459 o Security fixes, minor:
18460 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
18461 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
18463 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
18464 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
18465 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
18466 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
18467 if we've not heard of a server.
18468 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
18469 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
18470 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
18471 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
18472 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
18473 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
18474 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
18475 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
18476 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
18477 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
18478 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
18479 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
18480 aids some statistical attacks.
18481 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
18482 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
18483 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
18484 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
18485 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
18486 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
18487 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
18488 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
18491 o Packaging improvements:
18492 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
18493 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
18494 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
18495 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
18496 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
18497 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
18499 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
18500 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
18501 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
18502 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
18503 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
18504 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
18506 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
18507 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
18508 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
18510 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
18511 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
18512 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
18513 They are useless now.
18514 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
18515 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
18516 is reachable by you.
18517 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
18520 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
18521 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
18522 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
18523 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
18524 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
18525 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
18526 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
18527 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
18528 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
18529 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
18530 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
18531 and isolating attacks better.
18532 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
18533 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
18534 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
18535 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
18536 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
18537 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
18538 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
18539 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
18540 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
18541 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
18542 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
18544 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
18545 can answer v2 directory requests too.
18546 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
18547 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
18548 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
18549 mirrors still cache and serve it).
18550 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
18551 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
18552 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
18553 for clients and for servers.
18554 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
18555 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
18556 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
18557 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
18558 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
18559 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
18560 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
18561 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
18562 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
18563 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
18564 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
18566 o Other directory improvements:
18567 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
18568 fifth authoritative directory servers.
18569 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
18570 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
18571 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
18572 to hang up on them.
18573 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
18574 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
18575 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
18576 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
18577 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
18578 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
18580 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
18581 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
18582 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
18583 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
18584 connections more reliable.
18585 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
18586 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
18587 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
18588 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
18589 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
18590 we fail to connect).
18591 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
18593 o Controller protocol improvements:
18594 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
18595 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
18596 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
18597 applications without caring how our protocol works.
18598 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
18599 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
18600 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
18601 many bytes we've used in this time period.
18602 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
18603 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
18604 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
18605 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
18606 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
18607 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
18608 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
18609 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
18610 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
18611 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
18612 or "signal reload".
18613 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
18614 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
18615 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
18616 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
18617 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
18618 a router in its role as directory authority.
18619 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
18620 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
18621 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
18622 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
18623 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
18624 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
18625 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
18626 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
18627 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
18628 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
18629 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
18630 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
18631 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
18632 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
18633 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
18634 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
18635 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
18636 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
18638 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
18639 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
18640 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
18641 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
18642 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
18643 just tell them to go read their logs.
18645 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
18646 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
18647 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
18648 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
18649 try to be a bit more fair.
18650 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
18651 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
18652 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
18653 and we're using a default DirPort.
18654 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
18655 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
18656 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
18657 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
18658 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
18659 services faster on the service end.
18660 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
18662 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
18663 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
18664 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
18665 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
18666 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
18667 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
18668 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
18669 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
18670 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
18671 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
18672 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
18673 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
18674 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
18675 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
18676 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
18677 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
18678 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
18679 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
18680 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
18681 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
18682 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
18683 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
18684 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
18685 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
18686 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
18688 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
18689 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
18690 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
18691 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
18692 so we can be backward-compatible.
18693 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
18694 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
18695 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
18696 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
18697 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
18698 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
18699 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
18700 initial descriptor forever.
18701 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
18702 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
18703 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
18704 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
18705 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
18706 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
18707 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
18708 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
18709 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
18710 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
18711 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
18712 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
18713 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
18714 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
18715 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
18716 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
18717 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
18718 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
18719 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
18720 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
18721 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
18722 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
18723 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
18724 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
18725 ports that have changed.
18726 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
18727 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
18728 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
18729 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
18730 connections once a week.
18731 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
18732 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
18733 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
18734 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
18735 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
18736 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
18737 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
18738 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
18739 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
18740 able to discover them.
18741 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
18742 want to make it an NT service.
18743 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
18744 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
18745 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
18746 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
18747 memory leaks better.
18748 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
18749 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
18750 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
18751 statistics are now uint64_t's.
18752 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
18753 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
18754 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
18755 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
18756 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
18757 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
18758 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
18759 default ulimit -n is 1024.
18760 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
18761 and its existence is confusing some users.
18763 o Config option fixes:
18764 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
18765 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
18766 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
18767 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
18768 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
18769 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
18770 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
18771 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
18772 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
18774 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
18775 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
18776 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
18777 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
18778 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
18779 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
18780 it would silently ignore the 6668.
18781 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
18782 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
18783 silently resetting it to its default.
18784 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
18785 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
18786 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
18787 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
18788 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
18789 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
18790 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
18791 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
18792 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
18793 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
18794 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
18795 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
18796 Address config option.
18797 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
18798 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
18800 o Config option features:
18801 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
18802 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
18803 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
18804 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
18805 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
18807 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
18808 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
18809 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
18810 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
18811 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
18812 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
18813 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
18814 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
18815 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
18816 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
18817 in at least some cases.)
18818 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
18819 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
18820 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
18821 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
18822 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
18823 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
18824 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
18825 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
18826 even if we know they're jerks.
18827 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
18828 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
18829 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
18830 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
18831 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
18832 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
18833 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
18834 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
18835 because older Tors do not understand it.
18836 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
18837 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
18838 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
18839 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
18840 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
18841 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
18842 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
18843 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
18844 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
18845 unattached before we fail it?
18846 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
18847 at least this many seconds ago.
18848 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
18849 at least this many seconds ago.
18850 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
18851 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
18853 o Improved and clearer log messages:
18854 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
18855 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
18856 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
18858 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
18859 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
18860 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
18861 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
18862 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
18863 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
18864 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
18865 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
18866 temporarily unreachable.
18867 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
18868 Windows-style errno back.
18869 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
18870 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
18872 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
18873 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
18874 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
18875 exactly for this case.
18876 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
18877 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
18878 don't warn twice about the same name.
18879 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
18881 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
18882 it was self-testing that told us so.
18883 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
18884 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
18885 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
18886 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
18887 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
18888 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
18889 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
18890 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
18891 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
18892 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
18893 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
18894 established a circuit.
18895 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
18896 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
18897 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
18898 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
18899 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
18900 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
18901 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
18902 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
18903 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
18904 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
18905 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
18906 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
18907 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
18908 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
18909 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
18910 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
18911 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
18912 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
18913 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
18914 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
18915 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
18916 testing for reachability.
18917 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
18918 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
18920 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
18923 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
18924 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
18925 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
18926 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
18928 o Other important bugfixes:
18929 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
18930 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
18931 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
18932 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
18934 o Backported features:
18935 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
18936 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
18937 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
18938 without getting overloaded.
18939 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
18940 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
18941 503's whenever they feel busy.
18942 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
18943 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
18944 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
18945 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
18946 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
18949 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
18950 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
18951 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
18952 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
18953 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
18954 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
18955 too -- so detect and avoid this.
18956 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
18958 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
18959 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
18960 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
18961 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
18962 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
18963 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
18964 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
18965 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
18966 rendezvous circuits.
18967 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
18969 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
18970 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
18971 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
18972 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
18973 advertising it because of hibernation.
18974 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
18975 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
18976 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
18977 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
18978 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
18979 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
18980 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
18981 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
18982 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
18983 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
18984 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
18985 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
18986 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
18987 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
18988 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
18991 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
18992 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
18993 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
18994 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
18995 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
18996 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
18997 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
18998 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
18999 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
19000 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
19001 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
19002 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
19003 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
19004 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
19005 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
19008 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
19009 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
19010 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
19012 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
19013 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
19016 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
19017 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
19018 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
19019 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
19020 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
19021 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
19022 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
19024 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
19025 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
19029 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
19030 o New directory servers:
19031 - tor26 has changed IP address.
19033 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
19034 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
19035 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
19036 pthreads libraries.
19037 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
19038 claims its dirport is 0.
19039 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
19040 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
19044 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
19045 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
19046 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
19047 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
19048 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
19049 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
19050 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
19051 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
19054 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
19056 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
19057 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
19058 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
19059 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
19060 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
19061 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
19062 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
19063 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
19064 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
19066 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
19067 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
19069 o Assert / crash bugs:
19070 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
19071 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
19072 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
19074 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
19075 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
19076 TLS errors better in other situations too.
19077 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
19078 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
19081 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
19082 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
19083 duplicate ram over time.
19084 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
19085 reentry and threadsafeness.
19086 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
19087 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
19088 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
19090 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
19091 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
19092 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
19093 point at your Tor server.
19094 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
19096 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
19097 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
19100 o Protocol correctness:
19101 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
19102 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
19103 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
19104 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
19105 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
19106 to abandon partially built circuits.
19107 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
19108 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
19109 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
19110 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
19111 descriptors we just dropped.
19112 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
19113 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
19114 and to take errno into account where possible.
19115 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
19116 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
19117 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
19118 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
19120 o Robustness improvements:
19121 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
19122 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
19123 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
19125 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
19126 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
19127 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
19128 that will want high uptime circuits.
19129 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
19130 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
19131 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
19132 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
19133 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
19134 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
19135 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
19136 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
19137 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
19138 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
19139 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
19140 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
19141 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
19142 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
19143 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
19144 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
19145 for google.com" problem.
19146 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
19147 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
19148 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
19149 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
19150 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
19153 o Reachability testing.
19154 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
19155 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
19156 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
19157 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
19158 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
19159 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
19160 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
19161 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
19162 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
19163 already connected to them.
19164 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
19168 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
19169 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
19170 nickname+key are allowed.
19171 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
19172 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
19173 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
19174 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
19175 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
19176 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
19177 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
19178 have quite wrong clocks).
19179 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
19180 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
19181 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
19182 their descriptors are being rejected.
19184 o Efficiency improvements:
19185 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
19186 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
19187 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
19188 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
19189 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
19190 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
19191 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
19192 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
19193 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
19194 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
19196 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
19197 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
19198 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
19199 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
19200 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
19201 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
19202 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
19203 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
19204 of CPU time plus memory.
19205 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
19206 directory every time you regenerate it.
19207 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
19208 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
19209 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
19210 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
19211 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
19212 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
19213 lowercase when you first see them.
19216 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
19217 hidden services better.
19218 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
19219 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
19220 when we try to launch one.
19221 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
19222 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
19223 attempts to build a circuit.
19224 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
19225 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
19226 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
19227 normal web requests.
19230 - More Tor controller support. See
19231 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
19232 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
19233 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
19234 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
19235 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
19236 to make it easier to write controllers.
19237 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
19238 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
19239 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
19240 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
19241 new log event types.
19243 o New config options/defaults:
19244 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
19245 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
19246 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
19247 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
19248 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
19250 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
19252 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
19253 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
19254 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
19255 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
19256 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
19258 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
19259 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
19260 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
19261 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
19262 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
19263 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
19264 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
19265 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
19266 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
19267 required exit node for certain sites.
19268 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
19269 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
19270 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
19271 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
19272 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
19273 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
19274 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
19275 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
19276 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
19278 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
19279 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
19280 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
19281 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
19282 private-IP addresses.
19283 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
19284 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
19285 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
19286 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
19287 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
19288 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
19289 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
19290 is valid without actually launching Tor.
19292 o Logging improvements:
19293 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
19294 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
19295 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
19296 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
19298 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
19299 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
19300 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
19301 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
19302 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
19303 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
19304 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
19305 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
19306 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
19308 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
19310 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
19311 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
19312 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
19313 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
19314 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
19315 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
19317 o New contrib scripts:
19318 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
19319 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
19321 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
19322 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
19323 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
19324 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
19325 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
19326 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
19328 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
19329 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
19330 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
19331 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
19335 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
19336 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
19337 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
19338 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
19339 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
19340 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
19341 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
19343 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
19344 something more reasonable when first installing.
19345 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
19346 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
19347 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
19348 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
19350 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
19351 artificially capped at 500kB.
19352 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
19354 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
19355 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
19356 they could use instead.
19357 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
19358 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
19359 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
19360 the user asks you to.
19363 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
19364 rather than just rejecting it.
19365 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
19366 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
19367 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
19368 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
19369 rather than just "success" or "failure".
19370 - A more sane version numbering system. See
19371 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
19372 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
19373 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
19374 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
19375 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
19376 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
19378 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
19379 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
19380 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
19381 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
19383 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
19384 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
19386 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
19387 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
19388 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
19389 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
19391 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
19392 whether the server is hibernating.
19395 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
19396 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
19397 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
19398 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
19399 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
19403 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
19404 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
19405 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
19406 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
19407 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
19410 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
19411 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
19412 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
19413 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
19414 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
19415 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
19416 busy for more than 100 seconds.
19419 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
19420 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
19421 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
19422 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
19423 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
19424 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
19425 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
19426 creating actual system users.
19427 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
19428 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
19432 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
19433 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
19434 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
19435 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
19436 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
19437 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
19438 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
19439 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
19440 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
19441 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
19442 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
19443 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
19444 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
19445 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
19446 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
19448 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
19449 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
19450 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
19451 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
19452 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
19453 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
19454 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
19455 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
19456 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
19457 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
19458 existing torrc files.
19459 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
19462 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
19463 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
19464 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
19465 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
19466 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
19467 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
19468 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
19469 the win32 SYSTEM account.
19470 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
19471 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
19472 file descriptors available.
19473 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
19474 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
19475 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
19478 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
19479 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
19480 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
19481 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
19483 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
19484 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
19485 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
19486 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
19487 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
19489 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
19490 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
19491 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
19492 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
19493 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
19494 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
19495 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
19496 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
19497 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
19498 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
19499 800kB/s of capacity.
19500 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
19503 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
19504 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
19505 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
19506 need as much processor time.
19507 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
19508 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
19509 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
19510 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
19511 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
19512 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
19513 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
19514 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
19515 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
19516 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
19517 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
19518 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
19520 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
19521 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
19522 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
19523 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
19524 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
19525 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
19526 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
19529 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
19530 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
19531 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
19533 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
19534 style address, then we'd crash.
19535 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
19536 a dirserver is broken.
19537 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
19539 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
19540 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
19541 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
19543 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
19544 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
19545 name out of the warning/assert messages.
19546 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
19547 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
19548 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
19550 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
19551 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
19552 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
19554 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
19556 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
19557 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
19558 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
19559 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
19560 values at once couldn't work.
19561 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
19562 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
19563 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
19564 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
19565 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
19566 they can handle any number of routers.
19567 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
19568 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
19569 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
19570 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
19571 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
19572 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
19573 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
19574 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
19575 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
19578 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
19579 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
19580 - Make hibernation actually work.
19581 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
19582 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
19583 don't use the stream status code.
19586 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
19587 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
19588 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
19589 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
19590 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
19591 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
19592 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
19593 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
19594 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
19595 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
19596 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
19597 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
19600 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
19601 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
19602 win32 socket errors better.
19603 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
19604 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
19605 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
19606 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
19608 - Make unit tests work on win32.
19610 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
19611 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
19612 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
19613 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
19614 right after sending the begin cell.
19615 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
19616 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
19617 exit nodes too. Oops.
19618 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
19619 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
19620 the user would get no response.
19621 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
19622 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
19623 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
19625 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
19626 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
19627 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
19628 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
19629 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
19631 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
19632 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
19633 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
19634 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
19635 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
19636 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
19637 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
19638 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
19639 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
19640 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
19641 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
19643 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
19644 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
19645 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
19646 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
19647 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
19648 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
19649 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
19650 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
19651 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
19652 so we don't see those messages days later.
19653 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
19654 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
19656 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
19657 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
19658 they ran out of file descriptors.
19659 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
19660 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
19661 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
19662 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
19664 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
19665 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
19666 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
19667 the ones we find in directories.)
19668 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
19669 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
19670 if you don't want it open.
19671 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
19672 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
19673 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
19674 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
19675 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
19676 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
19678 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
19679 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
19681 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
19683 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
19684 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
19686 o Features (circuits and streams):
19687 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
19688 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
19689 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
19690 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
19691 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
19692 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
19693 the user knows which one it's talking about.
19694 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
19695 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
19696 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
19697 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
19698 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
19699 from Geoff Goodell.
19700 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
19702 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
19703 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
19704 to fill the last cell completely.
19705 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
19706 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
19708 o Features (bandwidth):
19709 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
19710 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
19711 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
19712 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
19713 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
19714 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
19715 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
19716 your billing cycle starts on.
19717 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
19718 hibernation properties by
19719 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
19720 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
19721 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
19722 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
19723 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
19725 o Features (directories):
19726 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
19727 nickname to its identity key.
19728 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
19729 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
19730 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
19731 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
19732 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
19734 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
19735 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
19737 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
19738 will be able to get a directory.
19739 - Http proxy support
19740 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
19741 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
19742 be routed through this host.
19743 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
19744 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
19745 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
19746 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
19747 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
19748 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
19750 o Features (packages and install):
19751 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
19752 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
19753 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
19754 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
19755 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
19756 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
19757 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
19758 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
19759 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
19760 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
19763 o Features (ui controller):
19764 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
19765 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
19766 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
19767 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
19768 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
19769 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
19770 with the control port.
19771 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
19772 use in authenticating to the control interface.
19773 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
19774 configuration to torrc.
19775 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
19776 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
19777 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
19779 o Features (config and command-line):
19780 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
19781 not on the command line.
19782 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
19784 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
19785 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
19786 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
19787 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
19788 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
19789 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
19790 - New log format in config:
19791 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
19792 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
19793 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
19794 from their dirserver.
19795 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
19797 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
19798 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
19799 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
19800 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
19801 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
19802 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
19803 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
19804 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
19805 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
19806 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
19807 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
19808 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
19809 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
19810 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
19811 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
19812 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
19813 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
19814 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
19815 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
19816 than once per minute.
19818 o Features (other):
19819 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
19820 get back to normal.)
19821 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
19822 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
19823 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
19824 log more informatively.
19825 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
19826 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
19827 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
19828 from each other, to hinder linkability.
19829 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
19830 them act more like real nodes.
19831 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
19832 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
19833 1024) file descriptors.
19834 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
19837 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
19839 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
19840 clients/servers with an open dirport.
19841 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
19842 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
19843 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
19844 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
19845 intermittent connections.
19846 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
19847 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
19849 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
19850 in reporting stats locally.
19851 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
19852 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
19853 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
19856 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
19858 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
19859 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
19860 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
19861 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
19862 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
19863 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
19864 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
19865 list to decide who's running.
19866 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
19867 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
19868 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
19869 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
19870 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
19871 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
19872 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
19873 for pointing out this bug.)
19874 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
19876 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
19877 don't put it into the client dns cache.
19878 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
19879 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
19880 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
19882 o Protocol changes:
19883 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
19884 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
19885 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
19886 hadn't heard of before.
19889 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
19890 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
19891 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
19892 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
19893 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
19894 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
19895 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
19896 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
19897 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
19898 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
19899 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
19900 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
19901 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
19902 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
19903 - Directory caching.
19904 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
19905 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
19906 directory they've pulled down.
19907 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
19908 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
19909 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
19910 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
19911 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
19912 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
19913 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
19915 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
19916 This isn't used yet.
19917 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
19918 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
19919 clients don't use this yet.)
19920 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
19921 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
19922 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
19923 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
19924 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
19925 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
19926 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
19927 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
19928 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
19929 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
19930 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
19931 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
19932 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
19933 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
19934 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
19935 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
19936 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
19937 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
19938 - File and name management:
19939 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
19940 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
19942 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
19943 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
19944 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
19945 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
19946 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
19947 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
19948 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
19950 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
19951 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
19952 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
19954 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
19955 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
19956 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
19957 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
19958 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
19959 - New docs in the tarball:
19961 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
19962 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
19963 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
19964 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
19965 know you might want to get it verified.
19966 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
19967 kazaa, gnutella ports.
19968 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
19969 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
19970 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
19971 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
19972 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
19973 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
19974 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
19976 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
19978 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
19979 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
19981 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
19982 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
19983 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
19986 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
19987 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
19988 ask them to resolve the host "".
19991 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
19992 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
19993 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
19996 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
19997 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
19998 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
20001 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
20002 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
20003 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
20004 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
20006 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
20007 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
20008 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
20010 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
20011 hidden service per 15-minute period.
20012 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
20013 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
20014 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
20015 o Fixes for security bugs:
20016 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
20017 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
20018 a trusted dirserver.
20020 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
20021 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
20022 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
20023 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
20024 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
20025 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
20026 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
20027 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
20028 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
20029 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
20031 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
20032 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
20033 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
20034 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
20035 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
20036 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
20038 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
20041 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
20042 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
20043 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
20044 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
20045 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
20046 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
20047 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
20048 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
20049 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
20050 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
20051 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
20052 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
20053 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
20054 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
20057 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
20058 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
20059 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
20060 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
20063 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
20064 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
20065 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
20066 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
20067 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
20068 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
20069 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
20073 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
20075 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
20076 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
20077 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
20078 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
20079 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
20080 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
20081 if you decrypted them correctly.
20082 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
20083 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
20084 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
20085 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
20086 in-memory directories too.
20087 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
20088 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
20089 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
20090 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
20091 just close the circ.
20092 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
20093 - Better debugging for tls errors
20094 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
20095 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
20097 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
20098 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
20099 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
20100 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
20101 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
20102 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
20103 it tells you about the first error.
20104 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
20105 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
20106 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
20107 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
20108 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
20109 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
20110 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
20111 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
20112 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
20113 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
20115 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
20116 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
20119 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
20120 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
20122 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
20123 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
20124 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
20125 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
20126 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
20127 expect it to have a nickname.
20128 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
20129 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
20130 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
20131 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
20132 the dns farm to do it.
20133 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
20134 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
20136 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
20137 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
20138 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
20139 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
20140 but that aren't warnings
20143 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
20144 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
20148 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
20149 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
20150 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
20151 - include missing header fcntl.h
20152 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
20153 - deal with hardware word alignment
20154 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
20155 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
20156 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
20157 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
20158 by kill -USR1 currently.
20159 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
20160 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
20161 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
20164 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
20165 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
20166 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
20169 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
20171 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
20172 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
20173 - And fix a few endian issues.
20176 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
20178 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
20179 try that circuit again: try a new one.
20180 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
20181 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
20182 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
20183 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
20184 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
20185 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
20187 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
20188 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
20189 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
20191 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
20193 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
20194 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
20195 side isn't reading right then.
20196 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
20197 RecommendedVersions
20198 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
20199 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
20200 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
20203 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
20205 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
20206 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
20209 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
20213 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
20215 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
20216 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
20217 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
20218 connection is finished.
20219 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
20220 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
20221 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
20222 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
20223 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
20224 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
20225 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
20226 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
20227 rather than warn and continue.
20228 - Make --version work
20229 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
20232 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
20234 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
20235 knows it's working.
20236 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
20237 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
20239 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
20240 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
20241 so you can collect coredumps there.
20243 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
20244 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
20245 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
20246 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
20247 dns cache actually gets populated.
20248 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
20249 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
20250 end cell down it first.
20251 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
20252 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
20255 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
20257 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
20258 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
20260 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
20261 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
20262 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
20263 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
20264 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
20265 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
20267 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
20269 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
20270 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
20271 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
20272 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
20273 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
20274 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
20276 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
20277 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
20280 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
20282 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
20283 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
20284 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
20285 tor. It even has a man page.
20286 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
20287 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
20288 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
20289 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
20291 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
20293 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
20296 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
20298 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
20299 it, apt-getters. :)
20300 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
20301 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
20302 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
20303 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
20304 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
20305 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
20306 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
20307 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
20308 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
20309 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
20310 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
20312 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
20313 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
20316 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
20318 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
20319 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
20322 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
20324 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
20325 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
20326 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
20327 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
20328 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
20329 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
20330 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
20331 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
20332 logfile so you know it's working.
20333 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
20334 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
20337 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
20339 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
20340 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
20341 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
20344 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
20346 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
20347 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
20348 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
20351 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
20352 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
20353 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
20355 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
20356 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
20358 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
20359 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
20360 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
20362 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
20363 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
20367 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
20369 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
20370 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
20371 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
20374 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
20375 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
20376 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
20377 - Add port ranges to exit policies
20378 - Add a conservative default exit policy
20379 - Warn if you're running tor as root
20380 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
20381 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
20382 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
20383 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
20385 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
20388 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
20389 o Robustness and bugfixes:
20390 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
20391 really screw things up.
20392 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
20394 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
20395 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
20397 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
20398 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
20399 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
20400 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
20401 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
20402 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
20405 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
20408 - Change default loglevel to warn.
20409 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
20410 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
20412 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
20415 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
20416 o Robustness and bugfixes:
20417 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
20418 - to get ownership/permissions right
20419 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
20420 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
20421 pull down a directory again
20422 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
20423 causing server crashes
20424 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
20425 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
20426 - exit if bind() fails
20427 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
20428 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
20429 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
20430 - fix minor bias in PRNG
20431 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
20434 - Wrote the design document (woo)
20436 o Circuit building and exit policies:
20437 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
20439 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
20440 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
20441 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
20442 exists, rather than failing
20443 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
20444 which AP connections are standing by
20445 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
20446 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
20447 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
20449 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
20450 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
20453 - APPort is now called SocksPort
20454 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
20456 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
20457 hardcoded (for dirservers)
20458 - Reloads config on HUP
20459 - Usage info on -h or --help
20460 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
20462 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
20463 o General stability:
20464 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
20465 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
20466 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
20467 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
20468 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
20469 to take down the network when I approve a new router
20470 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
20473 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
20474 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
20476 o Autoconf improvements:
20477 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
20478 - Make install now works
20479 - create var/lib/tor on make install
20480 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
20481 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
20483 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
20484 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
20485 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
20486 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup