1 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
2 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
3 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
4 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
5 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
7 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
8 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
9 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
12 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
13 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
14 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
15 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
16 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
18 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
19 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
22 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
23 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
26 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
27 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
28 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
30 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
31 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
32 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
33 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
34 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
36 o Minor features (controller):
37 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
38 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
39 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
41 o Minor features (geoip):
42 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
43 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
46 o Minor features (logs):
47 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
50 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
51 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
52 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
53 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
54 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
55 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
56 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
57 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
58 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
60 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
61 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
63 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
66 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
67 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
68 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
70 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
71 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
72 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
73 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
75 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
76 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
79 o Directory authority IP change:
80 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
84 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
85 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
86 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
90 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
91 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
92 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
93 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
94 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
95 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
97 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
98 the next version will be a release candidate.
100 o Deprecated versions:
101 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
102 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
104 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
105 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
106 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
107 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
108 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
109 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
111 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
112 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
113 Implements ticket 11485.
115 o Major features (changed defaults):
116 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
117 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
118 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
119 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
120 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
121 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
123 o Major features (directory system):
124 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
125 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
126 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
127 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
128 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
129 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
130 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
131 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
132 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
133 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
134 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
135 227. Closes ticket 10395.
137 o Major features (performance):
138 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
139 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
140 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
141 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
142 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
143 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
144 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
145 Implements ticket 9682.
147 o Major features (relay):
148 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
149 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
150 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
152 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
153 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
154 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
155 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
157 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
158 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
159 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
160 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
161 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
162 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
163 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
165 o Minor features (build):
166 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
167 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
168 Resolves ticket 13037.
170 o Minor features (controller):
171 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
172 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
174 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
175 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
176 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
177 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
178 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
179 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
181 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
182 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
183 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
184 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
185 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
186 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
187 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
188 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
189 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
190 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
192 o Minor features (geoip):
193 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
194 GeoLite2 Country database.
196 o Minor features (guard nodes):
197 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
198 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
199 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
201 o Minor features (hidden service):
202 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
203 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
204 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
205 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
206 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
207 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
208 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
209 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
211 o Minor features (interface):
212 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
213 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
214 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
216 o Minor features (logging):
217 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
218 Resolves ticket 6852.
219 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
220 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
221 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
223 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
224 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
226 o Minor features (stability):
227 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
228 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
231 o Minor features (systemd):
232 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
233 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
235 o Minor features (testing networks):
236 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
237 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
238 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
239 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
240 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
241 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
243 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
244 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
245 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
246 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
247 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
249 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
250 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
251 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
252 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
253 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
255 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
256 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
257 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
258 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
259 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
260 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
261 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
262 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
264 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
265 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
266 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
267 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
268 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
269 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
270 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
271 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
273 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
274 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
275 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
278 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
279 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
280 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
281 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
282 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
284 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
285 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
286 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
287 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
288 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
290 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
291 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
292 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
293 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
294 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
295 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
296 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
297 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
298 Addresses ticket 14188.
299 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
300 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
301 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
302 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
303 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
304 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
305 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
306 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
307 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
309 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
310 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
311 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
312 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
313 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
314 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
315 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
316 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
318 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
319 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
320 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
321 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
322 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
323 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
324 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
325 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
326 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
327 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
328 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
329 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
330 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
332 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
333 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
334 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
335 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
336 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
337 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
338 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
339 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
340 state, and key files.
341 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
342 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
345 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
346 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
347 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
348 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
349 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
350 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
351 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
352 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
353 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
354 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
355 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
357 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
358 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
359 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
360 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
362 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
363 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
365 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
366 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
367 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
368 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
369 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
370 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
372 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
373 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
374 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
375 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
376 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
377 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
378 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
379 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
380 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
381 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
383 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
384 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
385 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
387 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
388 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
390 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
391 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
392 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
393 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
394 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
396 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
397 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
398 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
399 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
402 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
403 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
404 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
407 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
408 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
409 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
411 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
412 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
413 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
414 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
415 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
416 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
417 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
419 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
420 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
423 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
424 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
425 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
427 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
428 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
429 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
432 o Code simplification and refactoring:
433 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
434 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
435 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
436 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
437 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
438 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
439 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
440 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
442 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
443 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
445 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
449 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
450 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
451 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
452 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
453 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
454 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
456 o Downgraded warnings:
457 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
458 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
461 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
462 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
463 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
464 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
465 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
469 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
470 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
471 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
472 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
473 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
475 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
476 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
477 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
478 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
480 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
481 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
482 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
483 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
485 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
486 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
487 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
490 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
491 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
492 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
493 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
494 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
495 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
497 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
498 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
499 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
500 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
502 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
503 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
504 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
505 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
506 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
507 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
509 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
510 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
511 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
512 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
513 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
514 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
515 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
518 o Major features (hidden services):
519 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
520 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
522 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
523 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
524 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
525 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
526 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
527 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
528 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
529 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
530 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
531 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
532 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
534 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
535 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
536 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
537 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
538 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
539 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
542 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
543 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
544 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
545 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
546 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
547 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
549 o Directory authority changes:
550 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
551 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
552 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
554 o Major removed features:
555 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
556 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
557 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
558 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
560 o Minor features (client):
561 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
562 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
563 Resolves ticket 13315.
565 o Minor features (controller):
566 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
567 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
570 o Minor features (geoip):
571 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
574 o Minor features (hidden services):
575 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
576 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
577 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
578 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
579 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
580 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
582 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
583 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
584 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
586 o Minor features (systemd):
587 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
588 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
589 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
590 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
592 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
593 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
594 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
595 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
596 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
599 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
600 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
601 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
602 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
603 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
605 - Clear all memory targetted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
606 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
607 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
610 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
611 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
612 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
613 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
614 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
616 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
617 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
618 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
620 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
621 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
622 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
623 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
624 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
626 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
627 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
630 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
631 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
632 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
633 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
634 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
635 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
636 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
637 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
638 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
639 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
640 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
641 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
642 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
643 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
646 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
647 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
648 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
649 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
650 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
651 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
653 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
654 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
655 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
656 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
658 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
659 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
661 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
662 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
663 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
664 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
667 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
668 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
669 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
670 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
671 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
672 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
674 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
675 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
676 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
677 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
678 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
679 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
680 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
681 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
682 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
683 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
684 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
685 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
686 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
687 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
688 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
689 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
690 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
691 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
692 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
693 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
694 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
695 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
696 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
697 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
698 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
699 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
700 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
701 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
702 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
703 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
704 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
705 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
707 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
708 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
709 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
710 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
711 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
713 o Code simplification and refactoring:
714 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
715 with a function instead.
716 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
717 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
719 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
720 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
721 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
722 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
723 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
724 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
725 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
726 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
727 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
728 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
729 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
730 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
734 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
735 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
736 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
737 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
738 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
739 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
740 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
741 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
742 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
743 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
744 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
745 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
748 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
749 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
750 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
751 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
752 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
753 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
755 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
759 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
760 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
761 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
762 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
763 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
764 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
765 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
766 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
767 of introducing infinite download loops.
769 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
770 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
771 with 0.2.5.x for now.
773 o New compiler and system requirements:
774 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
775 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
776 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
777 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
779 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
780 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
781 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
782 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
783 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
784 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
785 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
786 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
787 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
789 o Removed platform support:
790 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
791 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
794 o Major features (bridges):
795 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
796 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
797 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
800 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
801 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
802 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
803 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
806 o Major features (directory system):
807 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
808 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
809 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
810 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
812 o Major features (sample torrc):
813 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
814 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
815 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
816 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
817 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
818 generally useful "sample torrc".
820 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
821 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
822 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
824 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
825 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
826 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
827 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
828 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
830 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
831 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
832 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
833 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
835 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
836 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
837 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
838 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
839 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
840 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
843 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
844 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
845 document. Implements feature 10427.
847 o Minor features (client):
848 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
849 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
850 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
851 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
853 o Minor features (directory authorities):
854 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
855 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
856 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
857 argument more than once.
858 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
859 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
860 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
861 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
862 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
863 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
865 o Minor features (logging):
866 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
867 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
868 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
869 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
870 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
871 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
872 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
873 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
874 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
876 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
877 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
878 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
879 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
881 o Minor features (relay):
882 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
883 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
884 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
886 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
887 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
888 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
889 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
891 o Minor features (testing networks):
892 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
893 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
894 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
895 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
896 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
899 o Minor features (validation):
900 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
901 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
902 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
903 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
904 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
905 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
906 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
907 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
909 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
910 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
911 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
912 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
914 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
915 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
916 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
917 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
919 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
920 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
921 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
923 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
924 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
925 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
927 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
928 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
929 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
930 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
931 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
932 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
933 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
935 o Minor bugfixes (client):
936 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
937 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
938 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
939 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
940 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
941 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
942 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
943 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
945 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
946 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
947 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
948 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
949 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
951 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
952 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
953 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
955 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
956 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
957 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
958 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
959 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
961 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
962 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
963 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
964 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
965 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
966 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
967 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
968 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
969 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
970 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
971 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
974 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
975 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
976 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
977 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
978 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
980 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
981 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
982 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
983 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
984 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
987 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
988 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
989 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
990 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
991 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
992 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
994 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
995 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
996 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
997 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
999 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
1000 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
1001 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
1002 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
1004 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
1005 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
1006 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
1007 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
1010 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
1011 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
1012 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
1015 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
1016 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1017 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
1018 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
1019 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
1022 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1023 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
1024 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
1026 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
1027 Resolves ticket 12205.
1028 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
1029 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
1030 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
1031 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
1033 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
1034 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
1035 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
1037 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
1038 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
1040 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
1041 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
1042 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
1043 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
1044 or_options_t structure.
1047 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
1048 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
1049 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
1050 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
1054 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
1055 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
1056 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
1057 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
1058 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
1059 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
1060 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
1061 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
1062 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
1064 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
1065 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
1067 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
1068 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
1069 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
1070 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
1071 anymore, and ignore it.
1074 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
1075 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
1076 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
1077 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
1078 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
1079 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
1080 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
1081 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
1082 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
1083 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
1084 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
1085 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
1087 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
1088 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
1089 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
1091 o Distribution (systemd):
1092 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
1093 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
1094 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
1095 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
1096 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
1098 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
1099 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
1101 o Removed features (directory authorities):
1102 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
1103 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
1104 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
1105 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
1106 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
1107 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
1108 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
1109 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
1110 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
1112 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
1113 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
1114 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
1115 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
1118 o Testing (test-network.sh):
1119 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
1120 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
1122 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
1124 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
1125 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
1126 Partially implements ticket 13161.
1129 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
1130 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
1132 It adds several new security features, including improved
1133 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
1134 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
1135 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
1136 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
1137 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
1138 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
1139 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
1140 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
1141 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
1142 and features mentioned below.
1144 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
1145 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
1147 o Deprecated versions:
1148 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
1149 attention for some while.
1152 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
1153 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
1154 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
1155 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
1156 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
1157 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
1159 o Major security fixes:
1160 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
1161 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
1162 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
1164 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
1165 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
1166 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
1167 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
1170 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
1171 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
1172 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
1173 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1175 o Compilation fixes:
1176 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
1177 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
1178 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
1180 o Downgraded warnings:
1181 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
1182 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
1185 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
1186 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
1187 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
1188 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
1189 (which does affect Tor).
1191 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
1192 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
1193 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
1194 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
1196 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
1197 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
1198 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
1199 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
1202 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
1203 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
1204 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
1205 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
1206 the directory authorities.
1209 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
1210 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
1211 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
1212 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
1213 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
1214 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
1215 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
1216 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
1217 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
1218 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
1219 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
1220 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1222 o Directory authority changes:
1223 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
1226 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
1227 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
1228 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
1229 the directory authorities.
1232 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
1233 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
1234 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
1235 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
1236 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
1237 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
1238 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
1239 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
1240 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
1241 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
1242 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
1243 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1245 o Directory authority changes:
1246 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
1248 o Minor features (geoip):
1249 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
1253 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
1254 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
1255 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
1256 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
1257 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
1259 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
1260 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
1261 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
1262 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
1263 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
1264 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
1265 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1266 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
1267 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
1268 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
1269 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
1270 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
1271 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
1272 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1273 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
1274 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
1276 o Major bugfixes (relay):
1277 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
1278 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
1279 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
1280 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
1281 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
1282 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
1283 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1285 o Minor features (bridge):
1286 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
1287 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
1289 o Minor features (geoip):
1290 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
1293 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1294 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
1295 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
1296 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
1297 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
1298 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
1299 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1300 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
1301 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
1302 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
1303 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
1304 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
1305 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
1306 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
1307 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
1309 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
1310 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
1311 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
1312 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
1313 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
1315 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1316 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
1317 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1318 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
1319 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
1322 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1323 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
1324 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
1325 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
1326 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
1327 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
1328 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
1329 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
1330 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
1331 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
1332 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
1335 o Distribution (systemd):
1336 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
1337 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
1338 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
1339 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
1340 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
1341 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
1342 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
1343 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
1344 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
1348 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
1349 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
1351 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
1355 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
1356 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
1357 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
1358 us closer to a release candidate.
1360 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
1361 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
1362 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
1363 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
1364 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
1366 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
1367 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
1368 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
1369 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
1370 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
1371 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
1372 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
1373 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
1374 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
1378 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
1379 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
1380 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
1381 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
1382 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
1383 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
1384 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
1388 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
1389 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
1390 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
1391 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
1392 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
1393 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
1394 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
1395 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
1397 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
1399 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
1400 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
1401 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
1402 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
1403 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
1404 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
1405 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
1406 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
1407 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
1408 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1411 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
1412 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
1413 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
1414 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
1416 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
1417 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
1418 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
1421 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
1422 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
1423 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
1424 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
1427 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
1428 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
1429 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
1430 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
1431 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
1432 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
1433 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
1434 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
1435 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
1436 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
1439 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
1440 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
1441 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
1442 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
1443 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
1444 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
1445 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
1446 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
1450 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
1451 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
1452 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
1453 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
1454 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
1455 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
1456 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
1457 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
1458 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1459 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
1460 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
1461 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
1462 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
1465 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
1469 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
1470 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
1471 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
1472 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
1473 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
1474 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
1477 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
1478 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
1479 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
1480 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
1481 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
1482 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
1483 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
1484 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
1485 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
1486 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
1487 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
1488 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
1489 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1491 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
1492 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
1493 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
1494 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
1497 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
1498 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
1499 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
1501 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
1502 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
1503 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
1504 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
1505 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
1506 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
1507 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
1508 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
1509 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
1510 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
1511 router's identity is not forgeable.
1513 o Major bugfixes (relay):
1514 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
1515 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
1516 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
1517 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
1518 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
1519 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
1520 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
1521 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
1522 bugfix on every version of Tor.
1524 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
1525 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
1526 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
1527 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
1530 o Minor features (diagnostic):
1531 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
1532 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
1533 help diagnose bug 7164.
1534 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
1535 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
1536 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
1537 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
1538 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
1540 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
1541 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
1542 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
1543 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
1544 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
1545 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
1546 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
1548 o Minor features (security, memory management):
1549 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
1550 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
1551 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
1552 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
1553 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
1554 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
1556 o Minor features (security):
1557 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
1558 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
1559 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
1560 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
1562 o Minor features (build):
1563 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
1564 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
1565 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
1567 o Minor features (other):
1568 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
1571 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
1572 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
1573 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
1574 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
1575 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
1577 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
1578 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
1579 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
1580 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
1581 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
1582 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
1583 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
1584 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
1585 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
1586 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
1587 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
1588 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
1590 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1591 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
1592 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
1593 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
1594 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
1595 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
1596 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
1597 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
1598 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
1599 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
1600 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1601 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
1602 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
1603 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
1604 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
1605 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
1606 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
1607 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
1610 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
1611 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
1612 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
1613 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
1614 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
1615 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
1616 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
1618 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
1619 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
1620 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1621 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
1622 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1623 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
1624 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1625 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
1626 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
1628 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
1629 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
1631 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
1632 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
1634 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
1635 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
1636 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1637 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
1638 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
1639 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1640 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
1641 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
1642 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
1644 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
1645 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
1646 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
1647 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
1648 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
1649 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1650 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
1651 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
1652 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1653 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
1654 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
1655 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1656 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
1657 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
1658 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
1659 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
1660 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
1661 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1663 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
1664 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
1665 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
1666 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
1667 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
1668 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1669 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
1670 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
1671 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
1674 o Minor bugfixes (client):
1675 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
1676 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
1677 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
1678 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1680 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1681 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
1682 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
1683 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
1685 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
1686 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
1687 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
1688 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1689 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
1690 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
1691 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
1692 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
1694 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
1695 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
1696 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
1697 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
1700 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
1701 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
1702 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
1703 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
1704 versions. Found by "skruffy".
1705 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
1706 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
1707 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
1710 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
1711 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
1712 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
1713 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
1716 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
1717 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
1718 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
1719 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
1721 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
1722 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
1723 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
1725 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
1726 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
1727 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1729 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1730 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
1731 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1732 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
1733 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
1737 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
1738 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
1739 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
1740 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
1743 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
1744 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
1745 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
1746 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
1748 - Correct the documenation so that it lists the correct directory
1749 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
1751 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
1752 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
1753 caches don't get confused.
1756 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
1757 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
1758 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
1759 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
1760 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
1763 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
1764 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
1765 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
1766 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
1767 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
1768 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
1772 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
1773 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
1774 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
1775 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
1776 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
1777 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
1778 of RAM, and several others.
1780 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
1781 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
1782 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
1783 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
1784 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
1786 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
1787 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
1788 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
1789 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
1792 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
1793 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
1794 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
1795 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
1796 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
1797 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
1798 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1799 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
1800 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
1801 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
1802 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
1803 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
1804 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
1805 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
1806 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
1807 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
1808 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
1809 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
1810 Resolves ticket 11438.
1812 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
1813 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
1814 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
1815 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
1816 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
1817 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
1819 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
1820 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
1821 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
1823 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
1824 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
1825 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1827 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
1828 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
1829 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
1830 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1832 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
1833 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
1834 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
1836 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1837 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
1838 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
1841 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
1842 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
1843 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
1844 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
1847 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
1848 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
1849 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
1850 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
1852 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
1853 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
1854 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
1855 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
1857 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
1858 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
1859 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
1863 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
1864 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
1865 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
1866 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
1867 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
1868 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
1869 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
1870 the Linux sandbox code.
1872 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
1873 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
1874 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
1876 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
1877 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
1879 o Major features (security):
1880 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
1881 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
1882 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
1883 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
1884 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
1885 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
1886 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
1887 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
1889 o Major features (relay performance):
1890 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
1891 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
1892 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
1893 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
1894 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
1895 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
1896 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
1897 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
1898 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
1899 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
1901 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
1902 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
1903 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
1904 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
1905 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
1906 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
1907 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
1909 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
1910 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
1912 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
1913 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
1914 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
1915 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
1916 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
1917 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
1918 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1919 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
1920 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
1921 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
1922 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
1923 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
1924 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
1925 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
1926 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
1927 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
1928 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
1929 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
1930 Resolves ticket 11438.
1932 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
1933 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
1934 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
1935 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1937 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
1938 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
1939 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
1940 10267; patch from "yurivict".
1941 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
1942 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
1943 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
1944 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
1945 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
1946 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
1948 o Minor features (security):
1949 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
1950 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
1951 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
1952 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
1955 o Minor features (log verbosity):
1956 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
1957 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
1958 Resolves ticket 5286.
1959 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
1960 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
1961 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
1962 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
1963 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
1964 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
1965 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
1966 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
1967 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
1969 o Minor features (relay):
1970 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
1971 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
1972 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
1974 o Minor features (controller):
1975 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
1976 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
1978 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
1979 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
1980 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
1982 o Minor features (bridge client):
1983 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
1984 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
1985 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
1987 o Minor features (diagnostic):
1988 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
1989 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
1990 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
1991 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
1992 still referenced by a live node_t object.
1994 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
1995 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
1996 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
1997 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
1999 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
2000 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
2001 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
2002 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
2005 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
2006 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
2007 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2009 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
2010 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
2011 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
2012 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2013 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
2014 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
2015 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2017 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
2018 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
2019 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
2020 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2021 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
2022 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
2023 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
2024 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
2025 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
2026 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
2027 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2028 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
2029 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
2032 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
2033 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
2034 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
2035 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
2036 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
2038 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
2039 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
2040 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
2043 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2044 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
2045 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
2047 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
2048 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
2049 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2051 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
2052 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
2053 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
2054 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
2056 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
2057 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
2058 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2059 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
2060 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
2062 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
2063 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
2064 early. Fixes bug 10081.
2066 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
2067 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
2068 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
2069 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
2070 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2071 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
2072 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
2073 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
2075 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
2076 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
2077 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
2078 should never have affected anyone in practice.
2080 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
2081 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
2082 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2084 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
2085 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
2086 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
2087 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
2088 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
2089 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
2090 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
2091 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
2092 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
2093 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
2094 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
2095 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
2096 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
2097 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
2099 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
2100 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
2101 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
2102 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
2103 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
2104 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
2105 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
2106 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
2110 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
2111 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
2112 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
2113 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2114 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
2115 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2116 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
2117 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
2119 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
2121 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2122 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
2123 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
2124 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
2125 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
2128 o Deprecated versions:
2129 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
2130 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
2131 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
2132 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
2135 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
2136 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
2137 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
2138 Patch from Dana Koch.
2141 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
2142 Resolves ticket 11070.
2145 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
2146 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
2147 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
2148 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
2149 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
2152 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
2153 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
2155 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
2156 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
2157 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
2158 streams attached to each circuit.
2160 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
2161 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
2162 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
2163 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
2164 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
2165 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
2166 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
2167 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
2168 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
2169 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
2170 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
2171 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
2172 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
2174 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
2175 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
2176 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
2178 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
2179 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
2180 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
2181 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
2182 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
2183 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
2184 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
2185 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
2186 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
2188 o Minor features (other):
2189 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
2190 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
2191 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
2192 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
2193 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
2194 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
2195 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
2196 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
2197 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
2200 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
2201 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
2202 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
2203 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
2204 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
2205 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
2206 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
2207 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
2209 o Minor bugfixes (client):
2210 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
2211 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
2212 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
2213 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2214 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
2215 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
2216 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
2218 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
2219 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
2220 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
2221 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
2222 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
2223 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
2224 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
2225 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
2226 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
2227 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
2228 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
2229 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2231 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
2232 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
2233 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
2234 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
2235 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
2236 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
2237 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
2238 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
2239 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2240 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
2241 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
2242 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
2243 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
2244 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
2246 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
2247 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
2249 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
2250 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
2251 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
2252 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
2253 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
2254 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
2255 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2256 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
2257 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
2258 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
2259 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
2260 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2261 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
2262 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
2264 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
2265 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
2266 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
2267 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
2270 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
2271 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
2272 the rest of bug 10841.
2275 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
2276 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
2277 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
2278 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
2279 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
2280 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
2281 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
2282 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
2283 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
2284 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
2285 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
2286 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2287 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
2288 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
2289 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
2291 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2292 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
2293 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
2295 o Test infrastructure:
2296 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
2297 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
2298 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
2299 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
2302 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
2303 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
2304 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
2305 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
2307 o Major features (client security):
2308 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
2309 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
2310 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
2311 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
2312 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
2313 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
2316 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
2317 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
2318 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
2319 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2321 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2322 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
2323 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
2324 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
2325 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
2328 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
2329 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
2331 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
2332 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
2333 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
2334 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
2335 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
2336 GeoLite2 Country database.
2339 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
2340 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
2341 bugfix on every released Tor.
2342 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
2343 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
2344 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
2345 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2346 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
2347 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
2348 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
2349 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
2350 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
2351 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2352 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
2353 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
2354 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2355 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
2356 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
2358 o Documentation fixes:
2359 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
2360 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
2363 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
2364 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
2365 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
2366 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
2367 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
2368 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
2369 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
2370 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
2372 o Major features (client security):
2373 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
2374 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
2375 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
2376 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
2377 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
2378 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
2379 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
2380 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
2381 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
2382 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
2383 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
2384 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
2386 o Major features (bridges):
2387 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
2388 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
2389 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
2390 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
2391 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
2392 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
2393 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
2394 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
2397 o Major features (other):
2398 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
2399 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
2400 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
2401 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
2402 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
2403 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
2404 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
2405 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
2406 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
2407 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
2408 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
2409 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
2412 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
2413 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
2414 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2415 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
2416 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
2417 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
2418 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2420 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
2421 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
2422 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
2423 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
2424 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
2425 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
2426 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
2427 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
2428 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
2430 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
2431 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2432 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
2433 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
2434 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
2435 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
2437 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
2438 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
2439 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
2440 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
2441 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
2442 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
2445 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
2446 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
2447 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
2448 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
2449 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
2450 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
2451 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
2453 o Minor features (security):
2454 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
2455 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
2458 o Minor features (config options and command line):
2459 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
2460 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
2461 Implements ticket 10060.
2462 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
2463 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
2464 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
2466 o Minor features (controller):
2467 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
2468 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
2469 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
2470 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
2471 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
2474 o Minor features (build):
2475 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
2476 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
2477 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
2478 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
2479 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
2480 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
2481 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
2483 o Minor features (testing):
2484 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
2485 the unit test scripts.
2486 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
2487 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
2488 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
2489 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
2491 o Minor features (log messages):
2492 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
2493 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
2494 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
2495 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
2496 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
2497 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
2498 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
2499 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
2500 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
2501 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
2503 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
2504 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
2505 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
2506 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
2507 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
2508 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
2509 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
2510 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
2511 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
2512 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2514 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
2515 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
2516 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
2517 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
2520 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
2521 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
2522 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
2523 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
2524 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2526 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
2527 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
2528 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
2529 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
2530 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
2531 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
2532 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
2534 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
2535 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
2536 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
2537 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
2538 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
2539 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
2540 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2542 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
2543 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
2544 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
2545 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2547 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
2548 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
2549 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
2550 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
2551 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
2552 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
2553 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
2554 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
2555 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
2556 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
2557 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2559 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
2560 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
2561 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
2562 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
2563 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
2564 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
2565 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
2566 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
2567 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
2568 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
2570 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
2571 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
2572 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
2573 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
2576 o Minor bugfixes (build):
2577 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
2578 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
2579 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
2580 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
2581 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
2583 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
2584 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2586 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2587 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
2588 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
2589 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2591 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
2592 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
2593 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
2594 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
2595 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
2596 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
2597 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
2598 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
2599 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
2600 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
2601 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
2602 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
2603 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
2604 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
2606 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
2607 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
2608 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2609 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
2610 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
2611 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
2613 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
2614 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
2615 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2616 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
2617 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
2618 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
2619 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
2620 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
2621 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
2622 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2623 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
2624 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
2626 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
2627 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
2628 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
2629 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
2630 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
2631 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
2632 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
2633 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
2634 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
2635 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
2636 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
2637 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
2638 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
2639 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
2640 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
2641 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
2644 o Removed code and features:
2645 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
2646 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
2647 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
2648 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
2649 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
2650 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
2652 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
2653 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
2654 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
2655 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
2656 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
2657 part of a fix for bug 10841.
2659 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2660 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
2661 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
2662 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
2663 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
2664 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
2665 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
2666 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
2667 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
2668 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
2669 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
2672 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
2673 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
2674 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
2675 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
2676 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
2678 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
2679 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
2680 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
2681 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
2682 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
2683 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
2684 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
2687 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
2688 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
2689 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
2692 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
2693 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
2694 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
2695 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
2696 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
2697 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
2698 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
2700 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
2701 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
2704 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
2705 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
2706 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
2707 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
2708 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
2709 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
2710 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
2711 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
2713 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
2714 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2715 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
2716 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
2717 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
2718 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
2721 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
2722 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2723 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
2724 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
2725 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
2728 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
2729 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
2730 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
2731 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
2732 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
2733 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
2734 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
2735 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
2737 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
2738 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
2739 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
2740 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
2741 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
2742 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
2743 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
2744 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
2745 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
2746 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
2747 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
2748 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
2749 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
2750 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
2751 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
2752 security, and privacy fixes.
2755 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
2756 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
2757 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
2758 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
2761 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
2762 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
2763 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
2764 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
2765 them to solve bug 6033.)
2768 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
2769 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
2770 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
2771 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
2772 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
2773 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2774 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
2775 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
2777 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
2778 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
2779 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
2780 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
2782 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
2783 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
2784 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2785 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
2786 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
2787 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
2788 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
2789 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
2790 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
2791 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2792 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
2793 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
2795 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
2796 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
2797 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
2798 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
2799 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
2800 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
2801 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
2802 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
2803 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
2804 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
2805 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
2806 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
2807 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
2808 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
2809 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
2810 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
2813 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
2814 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
2815 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
2816 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
2817 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
2818 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
2819 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
2820 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
2821 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
2822 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
2823 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
2824 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
2825 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
2826 Implements part of proposal 222.
2828 o Minor features (other):
2829 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
2830 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
2831 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
2832 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
2833 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
2834 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
2835 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
2836 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
2837 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2839 o Documentation fixes:
2840 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
2841 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
2842 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
2843 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
2844 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
2845 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
2848 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
2849 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
2850 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
2851 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
2852 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
2853 release of the new branch.
2855 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
2856 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
2857 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
2859 o Major features (security):
2860 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
2861 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
2862 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
2863 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
2864 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
2865 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
2866 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
2867 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
2868 Google Summer of Code.
2869 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
2870 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
2871 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
2872 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
2873 them to solve bug 6033.)
2875 o Major features (other):
2876 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
2877 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
2878 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
2879 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
2880 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
2882 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
2883 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
2884 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
2885 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
2886 Implements ticket 8530.
2887 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
2888 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
2891 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
2892 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
2893 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
2894 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
2895 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
2896 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2897 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
2898 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
2899 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2900 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
2901 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
2902 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
2903 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
2906 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
2907 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
2908 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
2909 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
2910 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
2911 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
2912 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
2913 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
2914 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
2915 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
2919 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
2920 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
2921 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
2922 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
2923 invoking the other functions it calls.
2924 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
2925 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
2926 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
2927 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
2929 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
2930 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
2931 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
2932 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
2933 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
2934 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
2935 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
2936 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
2937 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
2938 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
2939 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
2940 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
2941 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
2942 Implements part of proposal 222.
2944 o Minor features (config options):
2945 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
2946 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
2947 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
2948 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
2949 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
2950 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
2951 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
2952 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
2953 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
2954 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
2955 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
2956 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
2957 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
2958 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
2959 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
2960 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
2961 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
2964 o Minor features (build):
2965 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
2966 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
2967 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
2968 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
2969 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
2972 o Minor features (other):
2973 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
2974 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
2975 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
2976 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
2977 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
2978 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
2979 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
2980 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
2981 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
2982 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
2983 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
2984 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
2986 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2989 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
2990 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
2991 bugfix on every released Tor.
2992 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
2993 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
2994 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
2995 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
2996 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
2997 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
2999 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
3000 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
3001 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
3002 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3003 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
3004 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
3005 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
3006 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
3008 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
3009 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
3010 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
3011 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
3012 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
3014 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
3015 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3017 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
3018 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
3019 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
3021 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
3022 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
3023 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
3024 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
3025 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3027 o Minor code improvements:
3028 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
3029 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
3031 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
3032 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
3033 embarassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
3034 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
3035 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
3038 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
3039 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
3040 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
3041 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
3043 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3044 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
3045 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
3046 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
3047 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
3048 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
3049 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
3050 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
3051 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
3052 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
3053 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
3054 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
3055 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
3056 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
3057 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
3058 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
3061 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
3062 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
3063 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
3064 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
3065 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
3066 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
3067 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
3070 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
3071 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
3072 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
3073 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
3074 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
3075 Implements ticket 9574.
3078 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
3079 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
3080 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
3081 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
3082 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
3083 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
3084 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
3085 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
3086 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3087 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
3088 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
3089 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
3093 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
3094 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
3095 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
3096 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
3098 o Minor fixes (config options):
3099 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
3100 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
3101 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
3102 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
3103 message is logged at notice, not at info.
3104 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
3105 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
3106 or we just won't work.)
3109 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
3110 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
3111 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
3112 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3115 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
3116 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
3117 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
3120 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
3121 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
3122 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3123 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
3124 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3125 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
3126 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
3128 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
3129 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3130 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
3131 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
3134 - Fix an invalid memory read that occured when a pluggable
3135 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
3136 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3137 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
3138 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
3139 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
3140 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
3141 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
3142 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
3143 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
3144 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3145 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
3146 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
3149 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3152 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
3153 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
3154 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
3155 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
3158 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
3159 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
3160 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3163 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
3164 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
3165 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
3168 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
3169 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
3170 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
3173 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
3174 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
3175 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
3176 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
3177 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
3178 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
3180 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
3181 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
3182 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
3183 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
3184 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
3185 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
3187 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
3188 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
3189 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
3192 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
3193 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
3194 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
3195 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
3196 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
3198 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
3199 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
3200 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
3201 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
3202 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
3203 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
3204 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
3206 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
3207 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
3208 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
3210 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
3211 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
3215 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
3216 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
3217 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
3219 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
3220 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
3221 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
3222 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
3223 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
3224 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
3226 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
3227 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
3228 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
3229 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
3230 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
3231 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
3232 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
3235 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
3236 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
3237 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
3238 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
3239 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
3240 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
3241 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3242 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
3243 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
3244 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
3245 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
3246 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3247 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
3248 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
3250 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
3251 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
3252 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
3253 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
3256 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
3257 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
3258 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
3259 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
3260 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
3261 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
3263 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
3264 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
3268 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
3269 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
3270 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
3271 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
3272 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
3273 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
3274 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3276 o Removed documentation:
3277 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
3278 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
3280 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3281 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
3282 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
3283 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
3286 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
3287 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
3288 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
3289 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
3290 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
3291 variety of other issues.
3294 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
3295 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
3296 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
3297 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
3298 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
3299 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
3300 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
3301 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
3303 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
3304 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
3305 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
3307 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
3308 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
3309 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
3310 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
3311 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
3312 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
3313 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3315 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
3316 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
3317 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
3318 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
3319 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
3320 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
3321 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
3322 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
3323 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
3324 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
3325 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
3326 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
3327 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
3328 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
3329 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
3330 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
3331 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
3332 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
3333 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
3334 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
3335 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
3337 o Major bugfixes (other):
3338 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
3339 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
3340 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
3341 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3344 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
3345 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
3346 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
3347 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
3349 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
3350 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
3352 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3354 o Minor features (build):
3355 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
3356 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
3358 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
3359 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
3361 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
3362 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
3363 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
3366 o Minor bugfixes (build):
3367 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
3368 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
3369 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3370 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
3371 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
3372 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3373 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
3374 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
3375 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3376 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
3377 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
3378 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
3379 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
3382 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
3383 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
3384 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
3385 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
3386 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
3387 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
3388 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
3389 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
3390 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
3391 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
3392 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy."
3393 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
3394 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
3395 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3396 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3398 o Minor bugfixes (other):
3399 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
3400 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3401 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
3402 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
3403 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
3404 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
3405 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3406 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
3407 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
3408 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
3409 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
3410 Should help resolve bug 8235.
3411 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
3412 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
3413 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
3414 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3416 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
3417 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
3418 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
3419 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
3420 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
3421 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
3422 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
3423 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
3426 o Minor bugfixes (config):
3427 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
3428 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
3430 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
3431 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
3432 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
3433 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
3434 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
3435 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
3436 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3437 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
3438 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
3439 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
3440 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
3441 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
3442 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3443 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
3444 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
3447 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
3448 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
3449 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
3450 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
3451 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
3452 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
3453 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
3454 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
3456 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
3457 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
3458 or at least make it more diagnosable.
3459 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
3460 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
3461 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
3462 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3464 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
3465 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
3466 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
3467 the relaxed timeout log message.
3468 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
3469 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
3470 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
3472 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
3473 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
3474 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3475 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
3476 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3477 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
3478 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
3481 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
3482 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
3483 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
3484 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
3485 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3486 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
3487 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3488 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
3489 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
3490 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
3491 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
3492 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
3493 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3494 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
3495 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
3496 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
3497 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
3499 o Documentation fixes:
3500 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
3501 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
3502 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
3503 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
3504 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
3505 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
3506 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
3507 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
3510 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
3511 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
3515 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
3516 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
3517 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
3518 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
3520 o Major features (directory authorities):
3521 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
3522 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
3523 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
3524 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
3525 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
3526 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
3527 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
3528 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
3529 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
3530 Implements ticket 8151.
3532 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
3533 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
3534 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
3535 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
3536 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
3538 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
3539 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
3540 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
3541 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
3542 whether authentication information is present, causing all
3543 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
3544 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
3546 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
3547 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
3548 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
3550 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
3551 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
3552 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
3553 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
3554 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
3555 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
3556 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
3557 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
3558 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
3559 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
3560 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
3561 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
3562 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
3563 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
3564 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
3565 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
3566 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
3567 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
3570 o Minor features (portability):
3571 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
3572 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3573 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
3574 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
3575 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
3576 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
3577 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
3578 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3580 o Minor features (other):
3581 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
3582 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
3583 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
3584 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
3585 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
3586 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
3587 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
3588 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
3590 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3592 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
3593 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
3594 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
3595 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
3596 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
3597 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
3598 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
3599 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
3600 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
3601 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
3603 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
3604 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
3605 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
3606 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3608 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
3609 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
3610 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
3611 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
3612 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
3613 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
3614 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
3616 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
3617 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
3618 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
3619 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
3620 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
3622 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
3623 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
3624 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
3625 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
3627 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3628 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
3629 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
3632 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
3633 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
3634 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
3635 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
3637 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
3638 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
3639 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
3640 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3642 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
3643 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
3644 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
3646 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
3647 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
3648 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
3649 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
3651 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
3652 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
3653 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3654 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
3655 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
3656 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
3657 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3659 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3660 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
3664 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
3665 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
3666 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
3667 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
3668 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
3671 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
3672 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
3673 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
3674 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
3676 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
3677 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
3678 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
3682 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
3683 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
3684 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
3685 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
3686 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
3687 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
3688 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
3689 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
3690 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
3691 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
3692 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
3693 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
3694 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
3697 o Major features (relay):
3698 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
3699 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
3700 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
3701 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
3702 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
3703 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
3704 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
3706 o Major features (portability):
3707 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
3708 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
3709 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
3710 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
3711 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3714 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
3715 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
3716 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
3717 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
3718 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
3719 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
3721 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
3722 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
3723 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
3724 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
3725 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
3726 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
3727 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
3728 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
3730 o Minor features (path selection):
3731 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
3732 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
3733 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
3734 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
3735 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
3736 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
3737 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
3738 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
3739 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
3740 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
3741 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
3742 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
3743 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
3744 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
3745 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
3746 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
3747 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
3748 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
3749 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
3751 o Minor features (log messages):
3752 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
3753 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
3754 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
3755 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
3758 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
3759 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
3760 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3761 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
3762 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
3763 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
3764 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
3765 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
3766 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
3767 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3768 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
3769 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3771 o Build improvements:
3772 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
3773 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
3774 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
3775 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
3776 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
3777 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
3778 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
3779 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
3780 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
3781 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
3782 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
3783 than to perform erroneously.
3786 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
3787 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
3788 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
3790 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
3791 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
3792 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
3795 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3796 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
3798 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
3799 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
3803 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
3804 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
3808 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
3809 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
3810 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
3814 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
3815 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
3816 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
3817 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
3820 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
3821 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
3822 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
3823 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
3824 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
3825 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
3826 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
3827 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
3828 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
3829 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
3830 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
3833 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
3834 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
3835 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
3836 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
3837 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
3838 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
3839 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
3840 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
3841 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
3842 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
3843 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
3845 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
3846 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
3847 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
3849 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
3850 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
3851 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
3853 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
3855 o Major features (better link encryption):
3856 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
3857 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
3858 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
3859 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
3860 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
3861 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
3864 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
3865 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
3866 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
3867 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
3868 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
3869 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
3870 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
3872 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
3873 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
3874 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
3875 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
3877 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
3880 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
3881 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
3882 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3885 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
3886 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
3887 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
3888 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
3889 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
3890 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
3891 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
3892 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
3893 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3895 o Minor features (testing):
3896 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
3897 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
3898 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
3900 o Minor features (path bias detection):
3901 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
3902 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
3903 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
3904 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
3905 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
3906 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
3907 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
3908 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
3909 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
3910 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
3911 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
3912 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
3913 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
3914 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
3915 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
3916 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
3917 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
3918 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
3919 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
3920 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
3921 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
3922 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
3923 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
3924 detection capability loss.
3926 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
3927 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
3928 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
3929 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
3930 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3931 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
3932 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
3933 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
3936 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3937 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
3938 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
3939 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
3940 and the different handshakes it supports.
3941 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
3942 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
3943 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
3944 any encoding is overkill.
3947 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
3948 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
3949 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
3950 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
3951 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
3952 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
3953 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
3954 and fixes a variety of other issues.
3956 o Major features (client resilience):
3957 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
3958 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
3959 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
3960 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
3961 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
3962 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
3963 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
3964 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
3965 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
3966 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
3967 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
3968 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
3969 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
3970 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
3971 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
3973 o Major features (IPv6):
3974 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
3975 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
3976 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
3977 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
3978 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
3979 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
3980 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
3981 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
3983 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
3984 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
3986 o Major features (geoip database):
3987 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
3988 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
3989 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
3990 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
3991 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
3992 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
3993 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
3994 Country database, as modified above.
3996 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
3997 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
3998 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
3999 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
4000 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
4001 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
4002 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
4003 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
4004 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
4005 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
4006 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
4007 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
4008 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
4009 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
4010 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
4011 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
4012 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
4015 o Major bugfixes (other):
4016 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
4017 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
4018 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
4019 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
4020 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
4021 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
4022 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
4023 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
4025 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
4026 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
4029 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
4030 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
4031 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
4032 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
4033 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
4034 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
4035 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
4036 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
4038 o Minor features (IPv6):
4039 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
4040 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
4041 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
4042 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
4043 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
4044 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
4045 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
4046 connect to the wrong addresses.
4047 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
4048 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
4049 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
4050 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
4054 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
4055 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
4056 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
4058 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
4059 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
4060 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
4062 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
4063 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
4064 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
4067 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
4068 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
4070 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4071 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
4072 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
4073 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
4074 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
4077 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
4078 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
4079 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
4080 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
4081 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
4082 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
4083 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
4084 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
4086 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
4087 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
4088 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
4089 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
4090 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
4091 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
4092 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
4093 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
4094 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
4095 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
4096 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
4099 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
4100 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
4101 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
4102 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
4103 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
4104 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
4105 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
4106 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
4107 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
4108 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
4111 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
4112 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
4116 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
4117 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
4118 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
4119 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
4122 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
4123 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
4125 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
4126 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
4127 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
4128 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
4129 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
4130 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
4131 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
4132 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
4133 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
4134 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
4137 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
4139 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
4140 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
4141 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
4142 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
4143 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
4146 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
4147 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
4148 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4149 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
4150 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
4152 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
4153 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4154 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
4155 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
4156 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
4157 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
4158 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
4160 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
4161 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4162 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
4163 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
4164 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
4165 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4166 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
4167 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4169 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4170 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
4171 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
4172 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
4173 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
4174 present the same extensions.)
4177 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
4178 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
4179 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
4180 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
4181 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
4183 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
4184 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
4185 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
4186 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
4188 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
4189 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
4190 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
4191 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4193 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
4194 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
4195 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
4196 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
4197 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
4198 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
4199 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
4200 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
4201 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4203 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
4204 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
4205 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
4206 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
4207 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4210 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
4211 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
4212 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
4214 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4215 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
4217 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
4218 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
4222 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
4223 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
4224 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
4225 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
4228 o Major bugfixes (security):
4229 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
4230 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
4231 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
4233 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
4234 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
4235 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
4236 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4239 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
4240 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
4241 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
4242 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
4243 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
4244 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
4245 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
4246 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4249 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
4250 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
4251 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
4252 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4255 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
4256 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
4257 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
4258 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
4259 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
4260 scheduling algorithms.
4262 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
4263 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
4264 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
4266 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
4267 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
4268 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
4269 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
4270 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
4271 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
4272 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
4273 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
4274 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
4275 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
4276 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
4278 o Internal abstraction features:
4279 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
4280 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
4281 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
4282 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
4283 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
4284 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
4285 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
4286 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
4287 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
4288 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
4289 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
4290 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
4291 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
4292 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
4293 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
4294 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
4295 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
4297 o Required libraries:
4298 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
4299 strongly recommended.
4302 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
4303 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
4304 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
4305 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
4306 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
4307 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
4308 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
4309 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
4310 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
4312 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
4313 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
4314 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
4315 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
4316 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
4317 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
4318 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
4319 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4320 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
4321 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
4322 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
4323 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
4324 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
4325 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
4326 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
4329 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
4330 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
4331 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
4332 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
4333 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
4334 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
4335 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
4336 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
4337 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
4338 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
4339 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
4340 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
4341 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
4342 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
4343 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4344 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
4345 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
4346 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
4347 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
4349 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
4350 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
4351 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
4352 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
4353 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
4354 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
4355 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
4358 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
4359 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
4360 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
4361 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
4363 o New directory authorities:
4364 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
4365 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
4367 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
4368 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
4369 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
4370 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
4371 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
4372 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
4373 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
4374 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
4375 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
4376 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
4377 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
4380 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
4381 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
4382 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
4384 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
4385 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
4386 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
4387 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4388 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
4389 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
4390 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
4391 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
4392 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
4394 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
4395 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
4396 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
4397 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
4398 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
4399 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
4400 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
4401 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
4402 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
4403 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
4404 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
4405 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
4406 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
4407 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
4408 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
4409 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
4410 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
4411 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
4413 o Documentation fixes:
4414 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
4417 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
4418 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
4419 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
4420 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
4423 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
4424 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
4425 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4428 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
4429 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
4430 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
4431 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
4432 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
4433 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
4434 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
4435 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4437 o Security features:
4438 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
4439 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
4440 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
4441 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
4442 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
4443 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
4444 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
4445 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
4446 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
4450 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
4451 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
4452 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
4455 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
4456 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
4457 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
4458 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
4459 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4460 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
4461 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
4462 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
4463 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
4464 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
4465 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
4466 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
4467 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
4468 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
4470 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
4471 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4472 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
4473 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
4474 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4476 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
4477 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
4478 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
4479 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4480 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
4481 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
4482 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4483 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
4484 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
4485 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
4486 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
4487 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
4488 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
4489 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4490 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
4491 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
4492 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4493 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
4494 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
4495 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
4497 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4498 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
4499 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
4500 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
4501 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
4502 testable, and a little less fragile too.
4503 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
4504 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
4506 o Documentation fixes:
4507 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
4508 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
4512 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
4513 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
4517 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
4518 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
4519 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4522 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
4523 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
4527 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
4528 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
4532 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
4533 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
4534 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4535 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
4536 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
4537 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
4538 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
4542 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
4543 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
4544 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
4545 log messages less noisy.
4548 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
4549 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
4553 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
4554 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
4555 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
4556 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
4557 last time we raised it).
4560 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
4561 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
4563 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
4564 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
4565 part of ticket 6736.
4566 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
4567 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
4568 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
4572 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
4573 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
4574 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
4575 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
4576 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
4578 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
4579 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4580 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
4581 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
4582 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4583 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
4584 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
4585 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4586 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
4587 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4588 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
4589 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4592 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
4593 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
4594 bunch of compatibility code.
4597 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
4598 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
4599 the ORPort and the DirPort.
4602 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
4603 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
4604 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
4605 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
4607 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
4608 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
4609 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
4611 o Major features (bridges):
4612 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
4613 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
4614 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
4617 o Major features (IPv6):
4618 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
4619 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
4620 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
4621 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
4622 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
4623 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
4624 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
4625 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
4626 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
4628 o Major features (build):
4629 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
4630 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
4631 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
4632 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
4633 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
4634 fixes by Jim Meyering.
4635 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
4636 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
4637 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
4639 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
4640 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
4641 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
4642 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
4643 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
4644 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
4645 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
4646 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
4647 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
4648 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
4649 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
4651 o Minor features (streamlining);
4652 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
4653 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
4655 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
4656 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
4657 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
4658 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
4659 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
4660 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4662 o Minor features (controller):
4663 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
4665 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
4666 Implements ticket 4971.
4668 o Minor features (IPv6):
4669 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
4670 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
4671 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
4672 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
4673 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
4675 o Minor features (log messages):
4676 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
4677 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
4678 Resolves ticket 6758.
4679 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
4680 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
4681 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
4682 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4683 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
4684 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
4685 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
4687 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
4688 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
4689 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
4690 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
4691 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
4694 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4695 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
4696 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
4697 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
4698 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
4700 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
4701 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
4702 Implements ticket 5529.
4703 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
4704 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
4705 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
4706 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
4707 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
4708 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
4709 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
4710 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
4711 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
4712 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
4715 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
4716 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
4717 from a source distribution.)
4720 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
4721 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
4722 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
4723 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
4724 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
4725 and cleans up other smaller issues.
4727 o Major bugfixes (security):
4728 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
4729 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
4730 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
4731 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
4732 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
4733 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
4734 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
4735 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
4736 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
4737 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
4738 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
4739 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
4740 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
4741 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
4742 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
4743 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
4747 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
4748 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
4749 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
4750 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4751 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
4752 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
4753 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
4754 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
4755 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
4756 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
4759 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
4760 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
4761 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
4762 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
4763 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4764 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
4765 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
4766 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
4767 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
4768 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
4769 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
4771 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
4772 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
4773 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
4775 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
4776 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
4777 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
4778 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
4779 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
4780 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
4781 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
4782 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
4783 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4784 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
4785 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
4786 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
4787 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
4788 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
4791 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
4792 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
4793 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
4794 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
4795 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4796 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
4797 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
4798 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
4799 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
4800 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
4801 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
4802 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
4803 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
4804 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
4805 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
4808 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
4809 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
4810 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
4811 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
4812 Resolves ticket 6732.
4815 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
4816 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
4817 attack that could in theory leak path information.
4820 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
4821 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
4822 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4823 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
4824 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
4825 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
4826 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
4827 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
4828 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
4829 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
4830 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
4831 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
4832 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
4833 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
4836 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
4837 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
4838 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
4839 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
4842 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
4843 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
4844 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4845 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
4846 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
4847 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4848 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
4849 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
4850 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
4851 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
4852 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
4853 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
4854 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
4855 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
4856 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
4857 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
4858 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
4861 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
4862 a little more useful.
4863 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
4864 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4865 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
4866 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
4867 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
4868 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
4869 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
4872 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
4873 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4874 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
4875 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4876 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
4877 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
4881 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
4882 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
4883 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
4884 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
4885 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
4888 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
4889 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
4890 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
4893 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
4895 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
4897 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4898 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
4899 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
4900 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
4901 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
4904 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
4905 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
4906 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
4907 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
4908 since the beginning of Tor.
4911 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
4912 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
4913 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
4914 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
4915 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
4916 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
4917 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
4918 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
4919 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
4920 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
4923 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
4924 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
4927 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
4928 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
4929 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
4930 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
4933 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
4934 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4935 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
4936 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
4937 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
4938 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
4940 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
4941 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
4942 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
4943 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
4944 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
4945 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
4946 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4947 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
4948 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
4949 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
4950 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
4951 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
4952 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
4953 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
4954 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
4955 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
4956 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4957 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
4958 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
4960 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
4961 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
4962 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
4964 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
4965 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4966 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
4967 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
4969 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
4970 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4971 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
4972 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4973 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
4974 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
4975 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4976 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
4977 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
4978 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
4979 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
4980 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
4981 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
4982 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
4983 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
4984 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
4987 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
4988 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
4989 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
4990 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
4991 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
4994 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
4995 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
4996 options. Closes bug 4748.
4999 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
5000 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
5001 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
5002 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
5003 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
5007 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
5008 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
5010 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
5011 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
5012 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
5013 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
5014 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
5015 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
5016 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
5017 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
5018 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
5021 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
5022 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
5023 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
5024 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
5025 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
5026 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
5027 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
5028 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
5031 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
5032 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
5033 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
5034 case for flushing marked connections.
5035 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
5036 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
5037 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
5038 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
5039 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
5040 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
5041 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5042 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
5043 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5044 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
5045 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
5046 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
5047 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
5048 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
5049 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
5050 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
5051 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
5052 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
5053 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
5054 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
5055 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
5056 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
5057 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
5058 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
5059 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
5061 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
5062 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
5063 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
5067 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
5068 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
5069 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
5070 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
5071 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
5072 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
5073 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
5074 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
5075 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
5076 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
5077 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
5078 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
5079 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
5080 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
5081 Addresses ticket 5458.
5082 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5084 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5085 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
5086 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
5089 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
5090 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
5091 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
5095 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
5096 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
5097 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
5098 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
5099 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
5100 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
5101 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5102 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
5103 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
5104 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
5105 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5108 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
5109 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
5112 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
5113 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
5116 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
5117 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
5118 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
5119 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
5120 that get us closer to a release candidate.
5122 o Major bugfixes (general):
5123 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
5124 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
5125 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
5126 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
5127 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
5128 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
5129 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5130 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
5131 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
5133 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
5134 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
5135 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
5136 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
5139 o Major bugfixes (clients):
5140 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
5141 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
5142 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
5143 which introduced predicted ports.
5144 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
5145 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
5146 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
5147 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5148 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
5149 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
5150 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
5151 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
5152 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
5153 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
5154 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
5155 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
5156 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
5158 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
5159 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
5160 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
5161 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
5162 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
5163 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
5164 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
5165 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
5166 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
5167 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
5168 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
5172 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
5173 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
5174 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
5175 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
5176 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
5177 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
5178 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
5179 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
5180 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
5181 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
5182 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
5183 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
5184 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
5185 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
5187 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
5188 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
5189 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
5190 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
5191 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
5192 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
5193 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
5194 sure. Closes bug 5139.
5195 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
5196 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
5197 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
5198 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
5199 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
5200 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
5201 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5203 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
5204 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
5205 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
5206 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
5207 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
5208 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
5209 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
5210 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
5211 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
5212 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
5213 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
5214 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
5215 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
5216 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
5217 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
5218 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
5219 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
5220 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
5221 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
5222 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
5224 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5225 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
5226 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
5227 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
5228 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
5229 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
5230 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
5231 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
5232 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
5233 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
5234 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
5235 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
5236 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
5238 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
5239 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5240 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
5241 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
5243 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
5244 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
5245 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5246 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
5247 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
5248 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5249 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
5250 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
5251 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
5252 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
5254 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
5255 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
5256 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
5258 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5259 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
5260 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
5261 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
5262 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
5263 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
5264 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
5265 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
5266 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
5267 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
5268 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
5269 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5270 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
5271 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
5272 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
5273 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5274 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
5275 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
5276 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
5277 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
5279 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
5280 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
5281 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5282 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
5283 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
5284 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
5286 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
5287 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
5288 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
5290 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
5291 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
5292 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
5293 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
5294 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
5295 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
5297 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
5298 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
5299 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
5301 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
5302 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
5303 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5304 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
5305 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
5306 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5307 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
5308 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
5309 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
5310 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
5311 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
5312 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
5313 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
5314 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
5315 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
5316 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
5318 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
5319 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
5320 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5321 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
5322 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
5323 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5324 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
5325 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5326 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
5327 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
5328 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
5329 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
5330 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
5333 o Documentation fixes:
5334 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
5335 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
5336 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
5337 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
5338 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
5339 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
5342 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
5343 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
5347 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
5348 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
5349 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
5350 and fixes several crash bugs.
5352 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
5353 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
5354 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
5355 those packages and upgrade anyway.
5357 o Directory authority changes:
5358 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
5359 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
5363 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
5364 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
5365 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
5366 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
5367 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
5368 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
5369 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
5370 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
5371 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
5372 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
5373 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
5374 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
5375 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
5376 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
5377 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
5378 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
5379 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
5380 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
5381 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
5382 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
5383 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
5384 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
5385 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
5386 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
5387 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
5388 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
5389 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
5392 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
5393 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5394 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
5395 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
5397 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
5398 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
5400 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
5401 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
5402 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
5403 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
5404 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
5405 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
5406 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
5407 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
5410 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
5411 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
5412 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
5413 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
5414 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
5415 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
5416 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
5417 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
5418 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
5419 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
5420 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
5421 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
5422 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
5423 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
5424 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
5425 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
5426 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
5427 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
5428 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
5429 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
5430 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
5431 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
5432 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
5433 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
5434 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
5435 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
5436 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
5437 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
5438 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
5439 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
5440 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
5441 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
5442 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
5443 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
5444 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5445 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
5446 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
5447 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
5448 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
5449 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5450 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
5451 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5452 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
5453 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
5454 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
5455 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
5457 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
5458 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
5459 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
5460 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
5461 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
5462 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
5463 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
5464 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
5465 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
5466 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
5467 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5468 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
5469 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
5470 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
5471 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
5474 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
5475 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
5476 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
5477 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
5479 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5482 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
5483 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
5484 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
5485 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
5486 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
5487 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
5488 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
5491 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
5492 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
5493 the development branch build on Windows again.
5495 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5496 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
5497 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
5498 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
5499 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
5500 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
5501 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
5502 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
5503 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
5504 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
5505 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
5506 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
5507 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
5508 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
5509 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
5511 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
5512 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
5513 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
5514 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5515 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
5517 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
5518 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
5519 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
5520 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
5521 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
5522 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
5525 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
5526 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
5527 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
5528 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
5529 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
5530 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
5531 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
5532 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
5533 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
5536 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
5537 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
5538 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
5539 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
5543 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
5544 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
5545 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
5546 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
5548 o Directory authority changes:
5549 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
5553 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
5554 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5555 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
5556 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
5558 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
5559 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
5560 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
5561 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
5563 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
5564 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
5565 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5567 o Major features (performance):
5568 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
5569 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
5570 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
5571 much faster than other AES implementations.
5573 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
5574 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
5575 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
5576 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
5577 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
5578 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
5579 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
5580 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
5581 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
5582 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
5583 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
5584 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
5585 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
5586 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
5587 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5588 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
5589 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
5590 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
5592 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
5593 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
5594 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
5595 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5596 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
5597 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5598 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
5599 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
5600 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
5602 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
5603 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
5604 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
5605 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
5606 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
5607 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
5610 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
5611 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
5612 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
5613 please let us know about it.
5614 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
5615 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
5616 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
5617 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
5618 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5619 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5620 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
5621 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
5623 o Default torrc changes:
5624 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
5625 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
5627 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
5628 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
5629 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
5633 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
5634 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
5635 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
5636 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
5639 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
5640 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
5641 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
5642 it would be a bad idea to start.
5645 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
5646 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
5647 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
5648 that get us closer to a release candidate.
5650 o Directory authority changes:
5651 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
5654 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
5655 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
5656 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
5657 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
5658 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
5659 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
5660 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
5661 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
5662 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
5663 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
5664 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
5665 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
5666 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
5667 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
5668 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
5669 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
5671 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
5672 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
5673 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
5674 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
5675 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
5676 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5677 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
5678 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
5679 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5680 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
5681 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
5682 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
5684 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
5685 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
5686 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5687 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
5688 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
5690 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5691 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
5692 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
5693 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
5694 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
5695 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
5696 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
5697 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
5698 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
5699 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
5700 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
5701 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
5702 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
5703 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
5704 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5705 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
5706 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
5707 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
5708 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
5709 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
5710 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
5711 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
5714 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
5715 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
5716 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5717 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
5718 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
5719 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
5720 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
5721 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
5722 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5723 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
5724 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
5725 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
5726 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
5727 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
5728 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
5729 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
5730 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
5733 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
5734 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
5735 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5738 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
5739 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
5740 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
5741 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
5744 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
5745 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
5747 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
5748 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
5749 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
5750 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
5751 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
5752 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
5753 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
5754 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
5755 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
5756 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
5757 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
5758 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5761 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
5762 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
5763 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
5764 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
5765 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
5766 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
5767 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5770 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
5771 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
5772 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
5773 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5774 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
5775 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
5776 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
5777 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
5778 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
5779 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
5781 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
5782 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
5783 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
5784 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
5785 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
5786 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
5787 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
5788 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
5789 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
5792 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5793 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
5794 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
5798 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
5799 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
5800 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
5801 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
5802 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
5803 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
5806 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
5807 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
5808 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
5809 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
5810 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
5811 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
5812 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
5813 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
5815 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
5816 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
5817 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
5818 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
5819 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
5820 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
5821 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
5822 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
5824 o Major security workaround:
5825 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
5826 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
5827 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
5828 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
5829 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
5830 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
5831 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
5832 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
5833 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
5834 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
5835 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
5838 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
5839 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
5840 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
5841 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
5842 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
5843 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
5844 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
5845 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5846 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
5847 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
5848 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
5849 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
5850 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
5852 o Minor features (controller):
5853 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
5854 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
5855 file. Resolves bug 1101.
5856 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
5857 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
5858 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
5859 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
5860 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
5861 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
5863 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
5864 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
5865 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
5866 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
5867 part of ticket 3457.
5868 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
5869 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
5870 circuit-status' control-port command.
5872 o Minor features (directory authorities):
5873 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
5874 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
5875 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
5876 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
5878 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
5879 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
5880 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
5881 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
5882 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
5883 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
5884 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
5886 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
5887 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
5889 o Minor features (other):
5890 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
5891 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
5892 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
5893 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
5894 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
5895 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
5896 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
5897 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
5899 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
5900 them from the other auths.
5901 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
5902 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
5903 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
5904 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
5906 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5908 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
5909 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
5910 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
5911 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
5912 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
5913 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
5914 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
5915 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
5916 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
5917 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
5918 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5919 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
5920 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
5921 be disabled using the new
5922 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
5923 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5924 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
5925 had its introduction cell acknowleged by the introduction-point
5926 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
5927 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
5928 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
5929 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
5930 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
5931 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
5932 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
5933 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
5935 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
5936 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
5937 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
5940 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
5941 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
5942 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
5944 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
5945 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
5946 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
5947 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
5948 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5949 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
5950 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5952 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
5953 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
5954 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
5955 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
5956 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
5957 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
5958 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
5959 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
5961 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
5962 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
5963 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
5964 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
5965 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
5966 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
5967 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
5968 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
5969 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
5972 o Minor bugfixes (other):
5973 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
5974 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
5975 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
5976 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
5977 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
5978 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
5979 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
5980 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
5981 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
5982 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
5983 accidentally been reverted.
5984 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
5985 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
5986 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
5987 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
5988 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
5989 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
5990 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
5991 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
5992 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
5993 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5994 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
5995 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
5996 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
5997 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
5998 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5999 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
6000 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6001 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
6002 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6005 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
6006 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
6007 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
6008 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
6009 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
6010 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
6011 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
6013 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6014 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
6015 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
6016 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
6017 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
6018 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
6019 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
6021 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
6022 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
6023 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
6024 invalid value, rather than just -1.
6025 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
6026 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
6027 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
6028 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
6029 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
6030 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
6031 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
6035 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
6036 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
6037 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
6039 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
6040 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
6041 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
6042 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
6043 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
6044 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
6045 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
6046 (which Tor does not do by default).
6048 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
6049 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
6050 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
6051 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
6052 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
6054 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
6058 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
6059 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
6060 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
6061 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
6064 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
6065 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
6066 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
6067 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
6068 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
6069 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
6070 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
6071 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
6072 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
6073 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
6074 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6077 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6080 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
6081 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
6082 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
6084 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
6085 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
6086 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
6087 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
6088 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
6089 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
6090 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
6091 (which Tor does not do by default).
6093 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
6094 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
6095 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
6096 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
6097 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
6099 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
6100 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
6101 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
6104 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
6105 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
6106 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
6107 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
6108 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
6110 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
6111 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
6114 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
6115 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
6116 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
6117 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
6118 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
6119 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
6120 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
6121 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
6123 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
6124 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
6125 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
6126 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
6127 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
6128 close based on processing a cell on it.
6129 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
6130 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
6131 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
6132 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6133 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
6134 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
6135 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6136 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
6137 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
6138 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
6139 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
6140 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
6141 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
6142 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
6143 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
6146 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
6147 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
6148 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
6149 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
6150 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
6151 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
6152 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
6154 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
6155 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
6156 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
6157 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
6158 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
6159 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
6160 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
6161 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
6162 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6163 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
6164 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
6165 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
6166 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
6167 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6168 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
6169 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
6170 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
6171 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
6172 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6173 Reported by "troll_un".
6174 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
6175 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6176 Reported by "troll_un".
6177 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
6178 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
6179 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
6180 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
6183 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
6184 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
6185 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
6186 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
6187 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
6188 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
6189 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
6190 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
6191 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
6192 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
6193 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6195 o Packaging changes:
6196 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
6197 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
6200 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
6201 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
6202 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
6203 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
6204 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
6206 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
6207 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
6209 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
6210 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
6211 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
6212 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
6213 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6214 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
6215 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
6216 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
6217 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
6220 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6223 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
6224 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
6225 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
6226 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
6227 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
6228 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
6229 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
6232 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
6233 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
6234 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
6235 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
6236 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
6237 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
6238 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
6239 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
6240 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
6241 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
6242 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
6243 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
6244 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
6245 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
6246 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
6247 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
6248 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
6249 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
6250 Resolves ticket 4526.
6251 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
6252 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
6253 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
6254 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
6255 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
6256 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
6257 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
6258 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
6259 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
6260 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
6261 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
6262 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
6263 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
6264 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
6265 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
6266 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
6269 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
6270 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
6271 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
6272 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
6273 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
6274 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
6275 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
6276 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
6277 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
6278 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
6280 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
6281 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
6282 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
6283 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
6284 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
6285 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
6286 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
6287 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
6288 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
6290 o Minor features (new/different config options):
6291 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
6292 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
6293 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
6294 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
6295 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
6296 Implements issue 933.
6297 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
6298 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
6299 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
6300 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
6301 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
6302 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
6303 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
6304 appending to the list.
6305 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
6306 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
6307 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
6308 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
6310 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
6311 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
6312 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
6313 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
6314 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
6315 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
6316 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
6317 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
6320 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
6321 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
6322 Resolves ticket 2474.
6323 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
6324 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
6325 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
6326 Required by fix for bug 3460.
6327 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
6328 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
6329 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
6330 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
6331 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
6332 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
6333 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
6334 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
6335 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
6337 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
6338 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
6339 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
6341 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
6343 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
6344 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
6346 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
6347 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
6348 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
6349 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
6350 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
6351 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
6352 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
6354 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
6355 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
6356 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6357 Reported by "troll_un".
6358 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
6359 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6360 Reported by "troll_un".
6361 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
6362 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
6363 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
6364 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
6366 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
6367 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
6369 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
6370 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
6371 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
6372 with help from wanoskarnet.
6373 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
6374 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
6377 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
6378 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
6379 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
6380 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6382 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
6383 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
6384 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
6385 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
6386 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
6387 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
6388 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
6389 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
6392 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
6393 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
6394 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
6395 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
6396 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
6397 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
6398 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
6399 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
6400 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
6403 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
6404 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
6405 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
6406 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
6408 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
6409 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
6410 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
6411 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6412 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
6413 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
6414 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
6415 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
6416 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
6417 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
6418 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
6419 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
6420 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
6421 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
6422 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
6423 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
6424 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
6425 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
6426 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
6427 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
6428 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
6429 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
6430 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
6431 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
6434 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
6435 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
6436 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
6437 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
6438 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
6439 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6440 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
6441 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
6444 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
6445 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
6446 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
6447 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
6448 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
6449 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
6450 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
6451 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
6452 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
6453 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
6454 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
6455 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
6456 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
6457 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
6458 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
6460 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
6461 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
6462 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
6463 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
6464 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
6465 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
6466 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
6467 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6468 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
6469 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
6470 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
6471 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
6472 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
6473 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6474 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
6475 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
6476 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6478 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
6479 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
6480 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
6481 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
6482 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6484 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
6485 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
6486 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
6488 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
6489 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
6490 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
6492 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
6493 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
6495 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
6496 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6499 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
6500 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
6501 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
6502 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
6503 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
6504 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
6505 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
6506 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
6507 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
6508 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
6509 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
6510 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
6511 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
6512 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
6514 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
6515 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
6516 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6518 o Packaging changes:
6519 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
6520 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
6522 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6523 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
6524 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
6525 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
6526 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
6527 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
6528 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
6529 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
6530 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
6533 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
6535 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
6536 ./src/test/bench binary.
6537 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
6538 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
6541 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
6542 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
6543 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
6547 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
6548 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
6549 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
6550 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
6551 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
6552 close based on processing a cell on it.
6553 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
6554 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
6555 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6556 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
6557 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
6558 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
6559 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
6560 cells were introduced.
6563 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
6564 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
6567 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
6568 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
6569 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
6570 users. Everybody should upgrade.
6572 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
6573 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
6576 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
6577 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
6578 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
6579 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
6580 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
6581 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
6583 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
6584 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
6585 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
6586 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
6587 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
6588 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
6589 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
6590 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
6591 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
6592 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
6593 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
6594 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
6595 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
6596 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
6597 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
6598 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
6599 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
6600 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
6603 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
6604 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
6605 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
6606 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
6607 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
6608 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
6609 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
6610 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
6611 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
6612 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
6613 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
6614 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
6615 Partly fixes bug 3825.
6616 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
6617 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
6618 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
6619 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
6620 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
6621 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
6622 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
6624 o Major bugfixes (other):
6625 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
6626 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
6627 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
6628 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6629 Found by "frosty_un".
6630 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
6631 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
6632 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
6633 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
6634 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
6635 immensely in tracking this bug down.
6636 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
6637 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
6640 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
6641 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
6642 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
6643 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
6644 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
6645 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
6646 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
6647 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
6648 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
6649 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
6650 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
6651 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
6652 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
6653 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6654 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
6655 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
6656 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
6657 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
6658 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
6659 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
6660 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
6662 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
6663 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
6664 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
6665 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6666 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
6667 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
6668 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
6669 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
6670 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
6671 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
6672 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
6675 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
6676 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
6677 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
6678 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
6679 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
6680 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
6681 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
6682 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
6683 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
6684 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
6685 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
6686 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
6687 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
6688 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6690 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6691 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
6692 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
6693 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
6694 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
6695 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
6696 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
6697 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
6700 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
6701 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
6702 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
6704 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
6705 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
6706 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
6707 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
6708 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
6709 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
6710 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
6711 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
6712 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
6713 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
6714 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
6715 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
6716 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
6718 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
6719 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
6720 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
6721 currently connected to them.
6723 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
6724 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
6725 remain; see for example proposal 188.
6727 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
6728 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
6729 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
6730 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
6731 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
6732 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
6733 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
6734 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
6735 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
6736 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
6737 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
6738 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
6739 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
6740 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
6741 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
6742 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
6743 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
6744 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
6747 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
6748 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
6749 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
6750 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
6751 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
6752 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
6753 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
6754 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
6755 when bridges were introduced.
6756 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
6757 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
6758 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
6759 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6760 Found by "frosty_un".
6763 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
6764 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
6766 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
6767 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
6768 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
6769 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
6770 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
6771 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
6772 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
6775 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
6776 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
6777 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
6778 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
6779 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
6780 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
6781 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
6782 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
6783 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
6784 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
6785 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
6786 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
6787 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
6788 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
6789 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
6790 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
6791 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
6792 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
6794 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
6795 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
6796 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
6797 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6798 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
6799 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
6800 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
6801 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
6802 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
6803 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
6804 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
6805 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
6808 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
6809 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
6810 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
6811 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6814 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
6815 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
6816 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
6817 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
6818 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
6820 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
6821 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
6822 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
6823 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
6824 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
6825 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
6826 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
6827 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
6828 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
6829 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6831 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
6832 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
6833 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
6834 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
6835 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
6836 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
6837 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
6838 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
6839 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
6840 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
6841 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
6842 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
6843 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
6844 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
6845 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6846 Found by "frosty_un".
6847 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
6848 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
6849 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
6850 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
6851 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
6852 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
6853 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
6854 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
6855 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
6856 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
6857 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
6858 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
6859 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6860 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
6861 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
6862 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
6863 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
6864 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
6865 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
6867 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
6868 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
6869 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
6870 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
6871 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
6872 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
6873 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
6874 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
6876 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
6877 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
6878 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
6879 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
6880 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
6881 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
6882 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
6883 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
6884 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
6885 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
6886 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
6887 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
6889 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
6890 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6891 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
6892 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6893 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
6894 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6895 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
6896 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
6897 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
6899 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
6901 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
6902 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
6903 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
6904 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6905 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
6906 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
6907 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
6908 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
6910 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
6911 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
6912 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
6913 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
6914 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
6916 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
6917 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
6918 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
6919 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
6920 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6923 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
6924 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
6925 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
6926 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
6927 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
6930 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
6931 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
6932 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
6933 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
6934 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
6935 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
6936 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
6937 when bridges were introduced.
6940 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
6941 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
6942 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6944 o Major features (networking):
6945 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
6946 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
6947 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
6948 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
6949 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
6953 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
6954 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
6955 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
6957 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
6958 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
6959 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
6960 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
6961 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
6963 o Minor features (diagnostics):
6964 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
6965 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
6968 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
6969 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
6970 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
6971 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
6972 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
6973 listed in the network consensus and republish.
6975 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
6976 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
6977 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
6978 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6980 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
6981 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
6982 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
6983 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
6984 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
6985 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
6986 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
6987 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
6988 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
6989 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
6990 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
6992 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
6993 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
6994 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
6995 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
6996 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
6997 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
6998 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
6999 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
7000 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
7001 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7003 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
7004 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
7005 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
7006 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
7007 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
7008 fixes part of bug 2442.
7009 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
7010 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
7011 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
7013 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
7014 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
7015 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
7016 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
7017 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7019 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
7020 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
7021 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
7022 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
7023 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
7026 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
7027 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
7028 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
7032 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
7033 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
7034 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
7035 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
7036 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
7037 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
7038 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
7041 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
7042 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
7043 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
7044 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
7045 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
7046 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
7047 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
7050 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
7051 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
7052 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
7053 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
7054 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
7055 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
7056 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
7057 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
7058 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7061 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
7062 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
7065 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
7066 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
7067 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
7068 reachable from Iran again.
7071 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
7072 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
7073 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
7075 o Minor features (security):
7076 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
7077 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
7078 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
7079 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
7080 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
7081 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
7082 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
7083 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
7084 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
7085 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
7088 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
7089 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
7090 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
7091 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
7092 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
7093 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
7094 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
7095 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
7096 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7098 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
7099 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
7100 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
7101 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
7102 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
7104 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
7105 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
7106 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
7107 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
7108 fixes part of bug 2442.
7109 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
7110 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
7111 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
7113 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
7114 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
7115 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
7116 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
7117 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7120 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
7121 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
7122 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
7123 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
7124 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
7125 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
7128 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
7129 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
7130 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
7131 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
7132 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
7133 bufferevent-based networking backend.
7135 o Major features (stream isolation):
7136 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
7137 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
7138 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
7139 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
7140 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
7141 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
7142 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
7143 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
7144 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
7145 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
7146 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
7147 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
7148 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
7149 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
7151 o Major features (other):
7152 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
7153 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
7154 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
7155 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
7156 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
7157 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
7158 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
7159 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
7160 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
7161 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
7162 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
7163 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
7164 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
7166 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
7167 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
7169 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
7170 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
7171 Fixes part of bug 3752.
7172 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
7173 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
7174 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
7175 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
7176 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
7177 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
7178 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
7179 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
7180 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
7181 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
7182 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
7183 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
7184 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
7185 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
7186 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
7187 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
7188 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
7190 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
7191 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
7192 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
7193 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
7194 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
7195 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
7198 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
7199 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
7200 user. Implements ticket 1692.
7201 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
7202 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
7203 best copy data out of a buffer.
7204 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
7205 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
7206 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
7208 o Minor features (build compatibility):
7209 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
7210 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
7211 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
7213 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
7214 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7216 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
7217 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
7218 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
7219 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
7220 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
7221 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
7222 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7224 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
7225 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
7226 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
7227 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
7228 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
7230 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
7231 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
7232 the absense of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
7235 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
7236 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
7237 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
7238 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
7239 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
7240 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
7241 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
7242 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
7243 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
7244 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
7245 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
7246 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7247 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
7248 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
7249 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
7250 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
7251 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
7252 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
7253 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
7256 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7257 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
7258 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
7262 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
7263 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
7264 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
7265 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
7266 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
7267 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
7270 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
7271 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
7272 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
7273 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
7274 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
7275 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
7276 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
7277 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
7278 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
7279 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
7281 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
7282 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
7283 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
7284 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
7285 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
7286 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
7287 many many other features and bugfixes.
7290 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
7291 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
7292 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
7295 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
7296 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
7297 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
7298 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
7299 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
7300 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
7301 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
7302 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
7305 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7308 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
7309 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
7310 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7311 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
7312 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
7313 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
7314 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
7315 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
7316 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
7317 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
7318 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
7319 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
7320 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
7321 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7322 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
7323 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
7324 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
7325 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
7329 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
7330 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
7331 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
7332 up a variety of recently introduced features.
7335 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
7336 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
7337 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
7338 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
7339 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
7340 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
7341 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
7342 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
7343 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
7344 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
7345 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
7346 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
7347 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
7348 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
7349 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
7350 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
7352 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
7353 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
7354 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
7355 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
7356 order. Fixes bug 2798.
7357 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
7358 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
7359 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
7360 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
7361 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
7362 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
7366 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
7367 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
7368 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
7369 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
7371 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
7372 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
7373 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
7374 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
7375 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
7376 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
7377 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
7378 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
7379 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
7380 Implements ticket 3264.
7381 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
7382 implements ticket 3439.
7384 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
7385 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
7386 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
7387 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
7388 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
7389 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
7390 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
7391 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
7392 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
7393 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
7394 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
7395 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
7396 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
7397 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
7398 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
7399 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
7400 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
7401 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
7402 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
7403 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
7404 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
7405 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
7406 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
7407 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
7408 fails. Spotted by coverity.
7409 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
7410 present. Found by coverity.
7411 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
7412 a directory cache that provides them.
7414 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
7415 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
7416 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
7417 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
7418 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
7419 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
7421 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
7422 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
7423 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
7424 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
7425 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
7426 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7427 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
7428 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
7430 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7431 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
7432 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
7433 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
7434 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
7435 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
7436 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
7438 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
7442 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
7443 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
7444 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
7447 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
7448 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
7449 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
7450 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
7453 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
7454 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
7455 discovered by katmagic.
7456 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
7457 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
7458 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
7459 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7460 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
7461 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
7462 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
7463 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
7464 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
7465 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
7466 fixes part of bug 3465.
7467 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
7468 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
7472 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7475 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
7476 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
7477 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
7478 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
7479 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
7482 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
7483 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
7484 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
7485 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
7486 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
7489 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
7490 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
7491 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
7492 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
7493 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
7494 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
7497 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
7498 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
7499 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
7500 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
7501 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
7502 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
7503 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
7504 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
7505 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
7506 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
7507 fixes part of bug 3407.
7508 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
7509 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
7510 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
7511 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
7512 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
7513 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
7514 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
7515 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
7516 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
7517 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
7519 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
7520 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
7521 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
7522 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
7525 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7527 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7528 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
7529 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
7531 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
7533 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
7536 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
7537 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
7538 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
7539 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
7540 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
7541 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
7545 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
7546 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
7547 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
7548 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
7549 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
7550 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
7551 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
7553 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
7554 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
7555 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
7556 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
7557 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
7558 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
7559 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
7560 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
7561 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
7562 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
7563 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
7564 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
7565 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
7566 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
7567 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
7568 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
7569 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
7570 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
7571 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
7575 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
7576 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
7577 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
7578 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
7579 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
7580 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
7581 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
7582 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
7583 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
7587 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
7588 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
7589 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
7591 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
7593 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
7594 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
7595 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
7596 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
7597 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7598 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
7599 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
7600 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
7601 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
7603 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
7604 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
7605 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
7606 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
7607 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
7608 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
7610 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
7611 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
7613 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
7614 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
7615 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
7618 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
7619 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
7620 Resolves ticket 3252.
7621 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
7622 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
7623 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
7624 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
7625 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
7626 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
7629 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
7630 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
7633 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
7634 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
7635 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
7638 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
7639 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
7640 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
7641 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
7642 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
7645 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
7646 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
7647 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
7648 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
7649 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
7650 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
7651 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
7652 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
7653 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
7657 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
7658 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
7659 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
7660 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
7661 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
7663 o Security/privacy fixes:
7664 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
7665 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
7666 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
7667 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
7668 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
7669 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
7670 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
7671 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
7672 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
7673 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
7674 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
7675 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
7676 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
7677 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
7678 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7681 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
7682 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
7683 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
7684 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
7685 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
7686 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
7687 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
7688 part of ticket 3076.
7689 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
7690 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
7691 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
7695 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
7696 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
7697 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
7698 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
7699 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
7700 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
7701 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
7702 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
7704 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
7705 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
7706 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
7707 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
7708 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
7709 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
7710 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
7711 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
7712 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
7713 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
7714 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
7715 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
7716 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7719 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
7720 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
7721 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
7722 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
7723 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
7724 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
7725 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
7727 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
7728 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
7729 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
7730 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
7731 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
7732 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
7733 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
7734 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
7735 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
7736 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
7737 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
7738 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
7739 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
7740 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
7741 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
7742 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
7744 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
7745 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
7747 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
7748 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
7750 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
7751 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
7753 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
7754 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
7755 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7757 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
7758 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
7759 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
7760 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
7761 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
7762 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
7763 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
7764 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
7765 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
7766 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
7767 consensus. Bugfix on tor-0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
7769 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
7770 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
7771 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
7772 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
7773 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
7774 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
7775 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
7776 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
7777 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
7778 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
7779 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7780 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
7781 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
7785 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
7786 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
7787 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
7791 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
7792 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
7793 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
7794 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
7795 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
7796 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
7798 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
7799 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
7800 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
7803 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
7804 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
7805 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
7806 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
7807 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
7808 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
7809 zero-copy transports where available.
7810 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
7811 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
7812 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
7813 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
7814 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
7815 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
7816 debug it as it breaks.
7817 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
7818 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
7819 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
7820 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
7821 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
7822 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
7823 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
7824 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
7825 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
7826 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
7827 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
7828 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
7829 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
7830 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
7831 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
7832 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
7833 PortForwarding option.
7834 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
7835 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
7836 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
7837 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
7838 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
7839 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
7840 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
7843 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
7844 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
7845 Implements enhancement 1668.
7846 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
7848 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
7849 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
7850 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
7851 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
7852 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
7853 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
7854 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
7856 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
7857 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
7858 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
7859 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
7860 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
7861 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
7862 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
7864 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
7865 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
7866 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
7867 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
7868 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
7869 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
7870 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
7872 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
7873 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
7874 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
7875 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
7876 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
7877 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
7878 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
7879 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
7880 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
7881 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
7882 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
7883 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
7884 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
7885 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
7886 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
7889 o Minor features (controller):
7890 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
7891 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
7892 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
7893 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
7894 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
7895 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
7896 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
7899 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
7900 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
7901 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
7902 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
7903 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
7904 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
7905 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
7906 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
7908 o Minor packaging issues:
7909 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
7910 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
7912 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7913 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
7914 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
7915 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
7916 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
7917 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
7918 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
7919 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
7920 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
7921 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
7922 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
7923 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
7924 our library structure used to force them to link it.
7927 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
7928 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
7929 are no longer in use as servers.
7931 o Documentation fixes:
7932 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
7933 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
7934 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
7938 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
7939 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
7940 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
7941 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
7942 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
7943 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
7944 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
7945 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
7946 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
7947 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
7950 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
7951 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
7952 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
7953 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
7954 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
7955 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
7956 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
7957 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
7958 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
7959 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7960 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
7961 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
7962 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7963 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
7964 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
7965 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
7967 o Security and stability fixes:
7968 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
7969 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
7970 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
7971 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
7972 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
7973 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
7974 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
7975 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
7976 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
7977 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
7978 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
7979 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
7980 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7981 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
7982 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
7983 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
7986 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
7987 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
7988 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
7989 contributions to the network.
7991 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
7992 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
7993 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
7994 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
7995 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
7996 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
7997 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
7998 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
7999 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
8000 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
8001 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
8002 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
8003 connections to directory servers.
8004 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
8005 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
8006 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
8007 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
8008 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
8009 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
8010 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
8011 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
8012 information, or fetch directory information.
8013 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
8014 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
8015 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
8016 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
8017 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
8018 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
8019 unless you really want your Tor to break.
8020 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
8021 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
8022 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
8023 - When StrictNodes is 1:
8024 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
8025 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
8026 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
8027 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
8028 reachability self-tests.
8029 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
8030 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
8031 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
8032 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
8033 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8034 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
8035 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
8037 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
8038 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8039 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
8040 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
8041 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
8042 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8043 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
8044 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
8045 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
8046 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
8047 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
8050 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
8051 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
8052 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
8053 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
8054 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
8055 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
8056 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
8057 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
8058 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
8059 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
8060 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
8061 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8062 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
8063 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
8064 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
8065 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
8066 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
8068 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
8069 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
8070 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
8071 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
8072 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8073 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
8074 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8075 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
8076 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
8077 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
8078 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
8079 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
8080 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
8081 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
8082 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
8083 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
8084 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
8085 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
8086 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
8087 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
8090 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
8091 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
8092 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
8093 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
8094 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
8095 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
8096 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
8097 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
8098 Required by fix for bug 3000.
8099 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
8100 by fix for bug 3000.
8101 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
8102 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
8104 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8105 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
8106 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
8107 send a body too). Since only server versions before
8108 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
8109 keep the workaround in place.
8110 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
8111 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
8112 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
8113 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
8114 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
8115 want to do it differently.
8116 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
8117 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
8118 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
8119 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
8120 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
8124 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
8125 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
8126 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
8127 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
8128 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
8131 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
8132 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
8133 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
8134 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
8135 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
8137 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
8138 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
8139 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
8140 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
8141 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
8142 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
8143 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
8144 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
8145 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
8146 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
8147 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
8148 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
8151 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
8152 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
8153 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
8154 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
8155 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
8156 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
8157 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
8159 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
8160 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
8161 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
8162 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
8163 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
8164 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
8165 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
8166 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
8167 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
8168 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
8169 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
8170 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
8171 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
8172 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
8173 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
8174 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
8175 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
8176 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
8177 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
8178 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
8179 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
8180 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
8181 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8184 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
8186 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
8187 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
8188 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
8190 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
8191 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
8192 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
8193 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
8195 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
8196 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
8197 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
8198 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8201 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
8202 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
8204 o Documentation changes:
8205 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
8206 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
8208 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
8211 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
8212 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
8213 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
8214 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
8215 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
8216 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
8219 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
8220 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
8221 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
8222 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
8223 the rest of bug 1074.
8224 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
8225 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
8226 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
8227 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
8228 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
8229 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
8230 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8231 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
8232 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
8233 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
8234 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
8235 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
8236 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
8237 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8240 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
8241 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
8242 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
8243 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
8244 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
8245 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
8246 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
8247 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
8248 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
8249 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
8250 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
8251 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
8252 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
8253 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
8255 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
8256 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
8257 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
8258 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
8259 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
8260 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
8262 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
8263 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
8264 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
8265 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
8266 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
8267 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
8268 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
8269 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
8270 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
8272 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
8273 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
8274 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
8275 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
8276 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
8277 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
8278 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
8279 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
8280 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
8281 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
8282 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
8283 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
8284 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
8285 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8286 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
8287 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
8289 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
8290 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
8291 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
8292 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
8293 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
8294 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
8296 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
8297 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
8298 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
8300 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
8301 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
8302 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
8303 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
8304 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
8305 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
8306 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
8308 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
8309 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
8310 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
8311 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
8312 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
8316 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
8317 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
8318 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
8319 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
8320 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
8321 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
8322 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
8323 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
8324 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
8325 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
8326 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
8327 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
8329 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8331 o Minor features (log subsystem):
8332 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
8333 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
8334 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
8336 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
8337 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
8339 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
8340 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
8341 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
8344 o Packaging changes:
8345 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
8346 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
8347 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
8350 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
8351 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
8352 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
8353 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
8354 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
8355 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
8358 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
8359 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
8360 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
8361 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
8362 the rest of bug 1074.
8363 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
8364 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8366 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
8367 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
8368 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
8369 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
8370 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
8371 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
8372 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8375 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
8377 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8380 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
8381 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
8382 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
8383 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
8384 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
8385 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
8386 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
8387 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
8388 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
8389 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
8390 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8392 o Packaging changes:
8393 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
8394 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
8395 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
8396 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
8397 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
8398 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
8401 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
8402 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
8403 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
8404 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
8405 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
8406 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
8409 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
8410 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8412 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
8413 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
8414 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
8415 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
8418 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
8420 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
8421 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
8422 Implements ticket 2432.
8425 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
8426 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
8427 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
8430 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
8431 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
8432 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
8433 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
8434 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
8435 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
8437 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
8438 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
8439 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
8440 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
8442 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
8443 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
8444 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
8445 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
8446 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
8447 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
8448 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
8449 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
8451 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
8452 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
8453 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
8454 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
8455 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
8456 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
8457 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
8458 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
8459 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
8460 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
8461 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
8462 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
8463 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
8464 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
8467 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
8468 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
8469 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
8470 bug reported by doorss.
8471 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
8472 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
8473 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8474 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
8475 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
8477 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
8478 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
8479 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
8480 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
8481 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
8483 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
8484 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8485 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
8487 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
8488 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
8489 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
8490 Automake 1.7 or later.
8491 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
8492 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
8493 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
8494 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
8496 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
8497 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
8498 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
8501 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
8502 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
8503 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
8504 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
8506 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
8507 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
8508 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
8509 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
8510 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
8511 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
8512 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
8513 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
8514 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
8516 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
8517 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
8518 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
8521 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
8522 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
8523 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
8524 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
8525 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
8526 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
8527 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
8528 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
8529 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
8530 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
8531 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
8532 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
8533 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
8535 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
8536 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
8540 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
8541 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
8542 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
8543 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
8544 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
8546 o Major bugfixes (security):
8547 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
8548 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
8549 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
8551 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
8552 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
8553 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
8554 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
8555 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
8556 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
8557 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
8558 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
8560 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
8561 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
8562 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
8563 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
8564 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
8565 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
8566 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
8567 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
8568 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
8569 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
8570 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
8571 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
8572 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
8573 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
8576 o Minor bugfixes (other):
8577 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
8578 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
8579 bug reported by doorss.
8580 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
8581 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
8582 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8583 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
8584 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
8586 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
8587 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
8588 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
8589 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
8590 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
8591 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
8592 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
8593 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
8594 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
8597 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8598 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
8601 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
8602 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
8603 Automake 1.7 or later.
8606 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
8607 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
8608 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
8609 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
8610 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
8613 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
8614 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
8615 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
8616 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
8617 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
8618 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
8619 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
8620 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
8621 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
8622 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
8623 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
8625 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
8626 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
8627 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
8628 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
8630 o Directory authority changes:
8631 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
8634 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
8635 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
8636 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
8637 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
8638 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
8639 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
8640 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
8641 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
8642 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
8645 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8646 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
8647 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
8648 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
8649 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
8650 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
8651 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
8652 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
8653 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
8654 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
8658 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
8659 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
8660 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
8661 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
8665 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
8666 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
8667 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
8668 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
8670 o Directory authority changes:
8671 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
8674 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8677 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
8678 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
8679 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
8680 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
8681 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
8684 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
8685 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
8686 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
8687 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
8688 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8689 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
8690 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
8691 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
8692 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
8693 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
8694 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
8695 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
8696 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
8697 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
8698 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
8699 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
8700 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
8701 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
8702 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
8703 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
8704 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
8705 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
8706 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
8709 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
8710 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
8711 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
8712 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
8714 o New directory authorities:
8715 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
8719 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
8720 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
8721 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
8723 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
8724 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
8725 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
8726 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
8727 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
8728 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
8730 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
8731 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
8732 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
8735 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
8736 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
8737 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
8738 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
8739 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
8740 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
8741 Patch from mingw-san.
8744 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
8745 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
8746 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
8747 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
8748 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
8749 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
8752 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
8753 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
8754 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
8757 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
8758 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
8759 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
8760 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
8761 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8764 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
8765 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
8766 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
8767 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
8768 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
8769 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
8770 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
8771 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
8772 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
8775 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
8776 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
8777 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
8778 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
8779 to a stable release.
8782 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
8783 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
8784 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
8785 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
8786 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
8787 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
8788 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
8789 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
8790 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
8791 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
8792 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
8793 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
8794 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
8795 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
8796 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
8797 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
8798 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
8799 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
8800 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
8801 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
8802 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
8803 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
8804 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
8805 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
8806 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
8807 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
8808 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
8809 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
8810 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
8811 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
8812 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
8815 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
8816 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
8817 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
8818 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
8819 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
8820 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
8821 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
8822 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
8823 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
8824 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
8825 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
8826 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
8827 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
8828 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8829 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
8830 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
8831 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
8833 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
8834 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
8835 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
8836 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
8837 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
8839 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
8840 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
8841 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
8842 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
8845 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
8846 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
8847 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
8848 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
8849 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
8850 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
8851 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
8852 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8854 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8855 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
8856 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
8857 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
8858 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
8859 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
8860 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
8861 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
8862 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
8863 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
8864 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
8865 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
8866 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
8867 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
8868 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
8871 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
8872 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
8873 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
8874 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
8875 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
8876 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
8877 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
8878 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
8879 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
8882 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
8883 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
8884 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
8885 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
8886 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
8888 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
8889 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
8890 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
8891 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
8892 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
8893 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
8894 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8895 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
8896 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
8897 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
8898 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
8899 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
8900 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
8901 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
8903 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
8904 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
8906 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
8907 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
8908 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
8909 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
8910 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
8911 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
8912 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
8913 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
8914 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
8915 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
8916 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
8917 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
8918 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
8919 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
8920 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
8921 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
8922 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
8923 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8925 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
8926 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
8927 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
8928 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
8929 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
8930 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
8931 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
8932 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
8933 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
8934 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
8935 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
8936 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
8937 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
8939 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
8940 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
8941 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
8942 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8945 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
8946 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
8947 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
8948 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
8949 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
8950 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
8951 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
8952 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
8953 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
8954 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
8955 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
8956 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
8957 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
8958 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
8959 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
8960 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
8961 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
8962 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
8963 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
8966 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
8967 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
8968 based on the time during which we were active and not in
8969 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
8970 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
8971 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
8972 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
8973 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8975 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
8976 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
8977 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
8978 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
8979 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
8980 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
8981 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
8982 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
8983 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
8984 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
8987 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
8988 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
8989 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
8990 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
8992 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
8993 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
8994 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
8995 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
8996 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
8997 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
8998 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
8999 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
9000 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
9001 the longest-lived bug prize.
9002 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
9003 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
9004 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
9005 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
9006 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
9007 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
9009 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
9010 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
9011 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
9012 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
9013 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
9014 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
9018 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9019 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
9020 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
9021 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
9022 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
9023 got suppressed since the last warning.
9024 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
9025 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
9026 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
9027 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
9028 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
9029 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
9030 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
9031 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
9032 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
9033 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
9034 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
9035 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
9036 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
9037 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
9038 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
9039 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
9040 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
9041 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
9042 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
9044 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
9045 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
9046 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
9048 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
9049 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
9050 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
9051 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
9052 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
9053 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
9054 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
9055 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
9056 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
9057 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
9058 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
9059 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
9060 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
9061 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
9062 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
9064 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
9065 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
9066 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
9067 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
9068 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
9069 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9070 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
9072 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
9073 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
9074 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
9075 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
9076 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
9079 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
9080 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
9081 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
9082 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
9083 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
9084 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
9085 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
9086 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
9087 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
9088 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
9089 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
9090 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
9091 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
9092 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
9093 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
9094 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
9095 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
9096 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
9099 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
9102 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
9103 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
9104 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
9105 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
9106 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
9110 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
9111 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
9112 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
9113 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
9114 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
9115 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
9116 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
9117 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
9118 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
9119 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
9120 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
9121 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
9122 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
9123 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
9124 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
9125 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
9126 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
9129 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
9130 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
9131 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
9132 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
9133 they first get the Guard flag.
9134 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
9138 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9139 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
9140 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
9141 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
9142 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
9143 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
9144 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
9145 Patch from mingw-san.
9146 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
9147 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
9149 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
9150 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
9151 Implements enhancement 1790.
9153 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
9154 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
9155 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
9156 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
9157 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
9158 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
9159 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
9160 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
9161 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
9162 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
9163 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
9164 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
9165 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
9166 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
9167 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
9168 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
9169 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
9170 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
9171 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
9172 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
9174 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
9175 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
9176 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
9177 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
9178 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
9179 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
9180 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
9181 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
9182 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
9183 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
9184 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
9185 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
9186 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
9188 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
9189 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
9190 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
9191 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
9192 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
9193 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
9195 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
9196 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
9197 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
9198 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
9199 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
9200 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
9201 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
9202 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
9203 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
9204 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
9205 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
9206 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
9208 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
9209 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
9210 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
9211 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
9212 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
9213 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
9214 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
9216 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
9218 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
9219 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9220 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
9221 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
9222 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
9223 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
9225 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9226 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
9227 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
9228 structures and defines in or.h for now.
9229 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
9230 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
9231 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
9232 statistics code to be more easily tested.
9233 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
9234 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
9235 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
9238 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
9239 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
9240 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
9241 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
9242 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
9243 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
9247 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
9248 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
9249 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
9250 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
9251 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
9252 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
9253 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
9254 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
9255 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
9256 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
9257 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
9258 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
9259 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
9261 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
9262 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
9263 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
9264 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
9265 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
9266 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
9267 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
9268 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
9269 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
9270 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
9271 can be controlled by the consensus.
9274 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
9275 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
9276 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
9277 more accurate data for many African countries.
9278 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
9279 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
9280 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
9281 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
9282 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
9283 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
9284 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
9285 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
9286 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
9287 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
9288 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
9289 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
9291 o New directory authorities:
9292 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
9296 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
9297 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
9298 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
9299 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
9300 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
9301 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
9302 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
9303 what should go in a patch.
9304 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
9305 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
9306 over our stored history.
9307 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
9308 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
9309 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
9310 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
9311 file. Fixes bug 1296.
9312 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
9313 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
9314 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
9318 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
9320 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
9321 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
9322 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
9323 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
9324 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
9325 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
9326 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
9327 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
9328 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
9329 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
9330 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
9331 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9332 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
9333 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
9334 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
9335 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
9336 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
9337 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
9338 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
9339 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
9340 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
9341 two-hop circuits are actually created.
9342 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
9343 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
9344 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
9345 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9348 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
9349 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
9350 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
9351 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
9352 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
9354 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
9355 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
9358 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
9359 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
9360 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
9361 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
9362 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
9363 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
9364 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
9365 their directory fetches over TLS).
9366 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
9367 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
9368 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
9369 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
9370 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
9371 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
9372 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
9373 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
9376 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
9377 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
9381 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
9382 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9383 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
9384 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
9385 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
9386 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
9387 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9390 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
9391 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
9392 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
9393 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
9394 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
9397 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
9398 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
9399 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
9400 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
9401 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
9402 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
9403 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
9404 their directory fetches over TLS).
9407 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
9408 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
9410 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
9411 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
9412 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
9413 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
9414 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
9415 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
9416 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
9417 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
9418 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
9419 hour of their uptime.
9422 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
9423 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
9424 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
9428 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
9429 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
9430 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
9431 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
9432 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
9433 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
9435 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
9436 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
9437 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
9439 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
9440 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
9444 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
9445 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
9446 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
9450 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
9451 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
9452 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
9455 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
9456 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
9457 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
9458 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
9459 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
9460 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
9461 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
9462 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
9463 about the option without breaking older ones.
9464 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
9465 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
9466 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
9467 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
9470 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
9471 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
9472 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
9473 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
9475 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
9476 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
9477 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
9480 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
9481 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
9483 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
9484 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
9485 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
9486 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
9487 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
9488 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
9489 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
9490 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
9491 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
9492 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
9493 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
9496 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
9497 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9498 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
9499 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
9500 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
9501 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
9502 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9505 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
9506 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
9507 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
9508 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
9509 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
9510 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
9513 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
9514 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
9515 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
9516 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
9518 o Major features (performance):
9519 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
9520 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
9521 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
9522 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
9523 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
9524 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
9525 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
9527 o Minor features (performance):
9528 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
9529 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
9530 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
9531 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
9532 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
9536 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
9537 speeds up the build considerably.
9539 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
9540 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
9541 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
9542 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
9543 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9544 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
9545 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
9546 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
9548 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
9549 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
9550 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
9552 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
9553 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
9554 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
9555 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
9557 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9558 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
9559 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
9560 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
9561 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
9562 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
9565 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
9566 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
9567 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
9569 o Directory authority changes:
9570 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
9571 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
9572 service directory authority) from the list.
9575 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
9576 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
9577 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
9578 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
9579 libraries in a security patch.
9580 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
9581 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
9582 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
9583 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
9585 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
9586 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
9587 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
9588 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
9589 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
9590 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
9591 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
9594 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
9595 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
9596 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
9597 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
9598 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
9599 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
9600 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
9601 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
9602 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
9603 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
9604 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
9605 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
9606 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
9608 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
9609 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
9610 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
9611 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
9612 control-spec.txt said they were.
9613 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
9614 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
9615 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
9616 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
9617 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9619 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9620 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
9621 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
9623 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
9624 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
9625 iPhone SDK versions.
9626 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
9627 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
9628 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
9629 projects directory in svn.
9630 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
9631 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
9632 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
9636 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
9637 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
9638 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
9640 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
9641 to the circuit build timeout.
9642 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
9643 arguments we do not recognize.
9644 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
9645 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
9646 open() without checking it.
9649 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
9650 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
9651 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
9652 several minor potential security bugs.
9655 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
9656 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
9657 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
9658 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
9659 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
9660 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
9661 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
9664 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
9665 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
9667 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
9668 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
9669 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
9670 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
9674 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
9675 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
9679 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
9680 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
9681 customized patches to run/build.
9684 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
9685 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
9686 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
9689 o Major bugfixes (performance):
9690 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
9691 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
9692 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
9693 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
9694 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
9695 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
9696 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
9699 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
9700 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
9701 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
9702 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
9703 libraries in a security patch.
9704 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
9705 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
9706 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
9707 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
9710 o Directory authority changes:
9711 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
9712 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
9713 service directory authority) from the list.
9716 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
9717 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
9720 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
9721 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
9722 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
9723 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
9724 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
9727 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
9728 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
9729 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
9733 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occured during the
9734 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
9735 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
9736 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
9737 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9740 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
9741 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
9742 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
9746 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
9747 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
9748 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
9749 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
9750 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
9752 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
9753 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
9755 o Directory authority changes:
9756 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
9759 o Major features (performance):
9760 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
9761 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
9762 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
9763 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
9764 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
9765 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
9766 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
9767 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
9768 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
9769 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
9770 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
9771 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
9772 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
9774 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
9775 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
9776 but never per-conn write limits.
9777 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
9778 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
9779 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
9780 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
9782 o Major features (relay selection options):
9783 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
9784 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
9785 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
9786 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
9787 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
9788 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
9789 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
9791 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
9792 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
9794 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
9795 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
9796 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
9797 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
9798 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
9799 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
9800 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
9801 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
9802 the network changes.
9805 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
9806 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
9807 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9810 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
9811 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
9812 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
9813 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
9814 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
9815 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
9816 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
9817 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
9818 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
9819 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
9820 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
9821 generated while acting as a relay.
9822 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
9823 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
9824 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
9825 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
9826 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
9827 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
9829 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
9830 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
9831 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
9832 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
9833 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
9834 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
9837 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
9838 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
9839 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
9841 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
9842 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
9843 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
9845 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
9846 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
9848 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
9849 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
9850 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
9852 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
9853 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
9856 o Minor bugfixes (other):
9857 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
9858 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
9859 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
9860 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
9861 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
9862 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
9863 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
9864 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
9866 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
9870 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
9871 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
9872 hidden service usage.
9875 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
9876 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
9877 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
9878 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
9879 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
9881 o Directory authority changes:
9882 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
9886 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
9887 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
9888 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9891 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
9892 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
9893 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
9894 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
9895 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
9898 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
9899 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
9900 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
9901 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
9902 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
9903 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
9904 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
9907 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
9908 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
9909 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9910 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
9911 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
9912 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
9914 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
9915 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
9918 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
9919 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
9920 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
9921 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
9922 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
9923 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
9926 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
9927 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
9928 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
9930 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
9931 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
9932 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
9933 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
9934 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
9935 download consensus + microdescriptors".
9936 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
9937 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
9938 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
9939 hash algorithm in the future.
9940 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
9941 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
9942 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
9943 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
9944 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
9945 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
9946 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
9947 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
9948 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
9951 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
9952 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
9953 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
9954 won't work unless we say we are.
9957 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
9958 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
9959 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
9960 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
9961 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
9962 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
9963 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
9964 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
9965 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9966 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
9967 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
9968 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
9969 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
9970 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
9971 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
9972 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
9973 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
9974 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
9975 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
9976 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
9977 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
9978 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
9981 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
9982 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
9983 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
9984 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
9986 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
9987 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
9989 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
9990 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
9991 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
9992 in the Vidalia Settings window.
9995 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
9996 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
9997 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
9998 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
9999 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
10001 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
10002 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
10004 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
10005 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
10006 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
10009 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
10010 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
10011 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
10013 o New directory authorities:
10014 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
10016 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
10019 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
10020 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
10022 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
10023 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
10024 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
10025 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
10026 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
10027 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
10028 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10029 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
10030 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
10031 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
10032 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
10033 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
10034 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
10035 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
10036 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
10037 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
10038 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
10040 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
10041 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
10042 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
10044 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
10045 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
10049 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
10050 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
10051 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
10052 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
10053 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
10056 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
10057 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
10060 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
10062 o Directory authorities:
10063 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
10067 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
10068 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
10069 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
10070 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
10071 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
10074 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
10075 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
10076 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
10077 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
10079 o New directory authorities:
10080 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
10083 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
10084 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
10085 SSL handshake issues.
10086 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
10087 during the TLS handshake.
10088 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
10089 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
10090 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
10091 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
10092 none of which are very big.
10095 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
10097 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
10098 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10099 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
10100 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
10101 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10102 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
10103 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
10104 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
10107 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10108 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
10109 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
10110 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
10111 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
10114 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
10115 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10118 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
10119 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
10122 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
10123 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
10124 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10127 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
10128 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
10129 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
10130 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
10131 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
10132 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
10135 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
10136 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
10137 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
10138 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
10139 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
10140 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
10141 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
10142 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
10143 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
10144 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
10145 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
10146 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
10147 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
10148 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
10149 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
10150 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
10151 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
10152 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
10155 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
10156 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
10160 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
10161 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
10162 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
10163 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
10164 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
10165 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
10166 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10167 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
10168 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
10169 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
10170 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10171 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
10172 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
10173 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
10174 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
10175 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
10176 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
10177 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
10178 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
10179 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
10180 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
10182 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
10183 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
10184 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
10185 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10186 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
10187 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
10189 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
10190 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
10191 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
10194 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
10195 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
10196 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
10197 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
10198 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
10199 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
10202 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
10203 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
10204 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
10205 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
10206 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
10209 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
10210 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
10211 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
10214 o New directory authorities:
10215 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
10219 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
10220 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
10221 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
10222 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
10223 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
10226 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
10227 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
10228 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
10229 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
10230 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
10233 o New options for gathering stats safely:
10234 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
10235 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
10236 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
10237 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
10238 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
10239 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
10240 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
10241 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
10242 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
10244 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
10245 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
10246 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
10247 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
10249 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
10250 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
10251 their extra-info documents.
10254 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
10255 source files Tor was built with.
10256 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
10257 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
10258 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
10259 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
10260 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
10261 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
10263 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
10264 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
10265 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
10266 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
10267 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
10269 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
10270 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
10273 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
10274 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
10275 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
10276 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
10277 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
10279 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
10280 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
10282 o Deprecated and removed features:
10283 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
10284 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
10285 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
10286 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
10287 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
10288 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
10289 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
10290 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
10292 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
10293 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
10294 via application-level web tricks.
10296 o Packaging changes:
10297 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
10298 installer bundles. See
10299 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
10300 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
10301 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
10302 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
10303 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
10304 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
10305 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
10306 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
10307 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
10308 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
10309 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
10310 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
10313 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
10314 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
10315 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
10318 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
10319 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
10320 part of patch provided by "optimist".
10323 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
10324 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
10325 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
10326 and confuse fewer users.
10329 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
10330 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
10331 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
10332 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
10333 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
10334 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
10335 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
10338 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
10339 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
10340 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
10341 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
10342 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
10343 other features and bug fixes.
10346 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
10349 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
10350 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
10351 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
10352 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
10353 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
10356 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
10357 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
10358 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
10359 failure message (oops).
10362 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
10363 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
10364 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
10365 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
10369 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
10370 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
10371 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
10372 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
10373 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
10374 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
10375 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10376 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
10377 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
10378 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
10379 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
10380 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
10381 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
10382 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
10383 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
10386 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
10387 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
10388 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
10389 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
10390 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
10391 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
10392 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
10393 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
10394 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
10395 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
10396 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
10397 Workaround for bug 1024.
10398 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
10402 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
10403 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
10404 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
10407 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
10409 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
10410 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
10411 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
10412 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
10413 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
10416 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
10417 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
10418 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
10419 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
10420 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
10421 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
10422 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
10423 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
10424 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
10425 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
10428 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
10429 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
10430 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
10431 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
10432 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
10433 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
10434 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
10435 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
10438 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
10439 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
10440 a bunch of minor bugs.
10443 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
10444 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
10445 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
10447 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
10448 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
10449 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
10450 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
10452 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
10456 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
10457 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
10458 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
10460 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
10461 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
10463 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
10464 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
10466 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
10467 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
10468 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
10469 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
10470 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
10471 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
10472 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
10473 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
10475 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
10476 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
10477 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
10479 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
10480 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
10481 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
10482 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
10483 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
10487 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
10488 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
10489 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
10490 of more minor bugs.
10492 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
10493 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
10494 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
10495 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
10497 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
10498 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
10499 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
10500 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
10501 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
10502 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
10503 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
10504 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
10505 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
10506 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
10507 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
10508 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10509 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
10510 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
10511 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
10512 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
10513 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
10515 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
10516 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
10517 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
10518 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10520 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
10521 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
10522 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
10525 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
10526 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
10527 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
10528 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
10529 addresses to fall out of the directory.
10532 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
10533 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
10534 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
10535 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
10537 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
10538 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
10539 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
10540 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
10541 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
10542 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
10543 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
10544 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
10545 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
10546 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
10547 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
10548 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
10549 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
10550 patch by Sebastian.
10551 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
10552 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
10555 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
10556 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
10557 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
10558 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
10559 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
10560 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
10562 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
10563 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
10564 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
10565 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
10566 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
10568 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
10571 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
10572 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
10574 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
10575 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
10576 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10577 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10578 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
10579 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
10581 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
10582 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10583 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
10584 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
10585 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
10586 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10587 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
10588 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
10589 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
10590 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
10591 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
10592 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
10596 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
10597 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
10598 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
10601 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
10602 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
10603 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10605 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
10606 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
10607 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
10608 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
10609 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
10610 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
10611 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
10612 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
10613 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
10614 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
10615 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
10616 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
10617 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
10618 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
10619 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
10620 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
10621 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
10622 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
10623 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
10624 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
10625 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
10626 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
10627 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
10628 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
10629 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
10630 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
10632 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
10633 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
10634 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
10635 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
10636 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
10637 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
10638 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
10639 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
10640 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
10641 of 0. Suggested by lark.
10643 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
10644 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
10645 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
10646 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
10647 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
10650 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
10652 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
10653 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
10654 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
10655 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
10658 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
10659 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
10660 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
10661 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
10662 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
10664 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
10665 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
10666 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
10667 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
10670 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
10671 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
10672 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
10673 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
10674 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
10675 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
10676 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
10677 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
10680 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
10681 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
10682 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
10683 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
10686 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
10687 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
10688 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
10689 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
10690 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
10691 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
10694 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
10695 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
10696 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
10697 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
10698 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
10699 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
10702 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
10703 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
10704 reported by Matt Edman.
10705 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
10707 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
10708 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
10709 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
10710 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
10712 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
10713 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10714 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
10715 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10716 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
10717 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
10718 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
10719 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
10720 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
10721 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
10722 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
10723 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
10724 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
10725 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
10726 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
10727 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
10728 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
10729 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
10730 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10733 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
10734 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
10735 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
10736 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
10739 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
10740 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
10741 the letter of C99's alias rules.
10744 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
10745 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
10746 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
10747 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
10749 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
10750 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
10751 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
10754 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
10755 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
10758 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
10759 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
10760 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
10761 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
10762 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
10763 reported by "wood".
10764 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
10765 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
10766 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
10767 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
10768 identify a connection.
10769 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
10770 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
10771 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
10772 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
10773 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
10774 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
10775 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
10776 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
10777 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
10778 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
10780 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
10781 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
10782 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
10783 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
10784 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
10785 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
10786 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
10789 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
10790 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
10792 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
10793 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
10794 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
10795 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
10796 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
10797 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
10798 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10799 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
10801 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
10802 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
10803 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
10804 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
10805 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
10806 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
10807 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
10808 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
10809 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
10810 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
10811 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
10812 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
10813 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
10814 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
10815 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
10816 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
10817 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
10818 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
10819 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
10820 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
10821 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
10822 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
10823 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
10824 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
10825 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
10826 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
10827 840. Patch from rovv.
10828 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
10829 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
10830 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
10832 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
10833 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
10834 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
10835 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
10836 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
10837 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
10838 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
10840 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10841 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
10842 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
10845 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
10846 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
10848 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
10849 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
10850 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
10851 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
10852 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
10853 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
10854 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
10855 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
10856 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
10858 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
10860 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
10861 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
10865 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
10866 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
10867 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
10868 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
10869 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
10870 have had some time to upgrade.)
10873 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
10874 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
10877 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
10878 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
10879 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
10880 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
10881 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
10884 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
10885 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
10887 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
10888 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
10889 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
10890 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
10891 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
10892 entirely. Patch from coderman.
10895 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
10896 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
10897 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
10898 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
10899 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
10900 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
10901 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
10905 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
10906 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
10907 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
10908 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
10909 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
10910 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
10911 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
10914 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
10915 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
10916 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
10917 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
10918 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
10920 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
10921 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
10922 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
10923 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
10924 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
10925 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
10926 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
10927 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
10928 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
10929 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
10933 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
10934 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
10935 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
10937 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
10938 without support for deprecated functions.
10939 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
10941 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
10942 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
10943 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
10944 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
10945 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
10946 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
10947 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
10948 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
10949 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
10950 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
10951 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
10952 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
10953 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
10954 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
10955 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
10956 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
10957 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
10958 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
10959 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
10960 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
10961 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
10962 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
10963 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
10965 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
10966 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
10967 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
10968 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
10969 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
10970 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
10972 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
10973 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
10974 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
10975 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
10976 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
10978 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
10979 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
10980 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
10982 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
10983 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
10986 o Deprecated and removed features:
10987 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
10988 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
10989 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
10992 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10993 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
10994 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
10995 with log.h on Android.
10996 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
10997 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
11000 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
11001 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
11003 o New directory authorities:
11004 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
11008 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
11009 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
11010 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
11011 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
11012 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
11013 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11016 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
11017 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
11018 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
11019 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
11020 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
11021 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
11022 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
11023 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
11024 reported by "wood".
11025 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
11026 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
11027 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
11028 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
11031 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
11032 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
11034 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
11035 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
11036 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
11037 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
11038 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
11039 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
11040 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
11041 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
11042 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
11043 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
11044 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
11045 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
11046 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
11047 Implements proposal 148.
11048 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
11049 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
11050 system to do it for us.
11051 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
11052 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
11053 this fix will be slightly helpful.
11054 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
11055 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
11056 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
11057 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
11058 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
11059 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
11060 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
11061 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
11062 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
11065 o Minor features (controller):
11066 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
11067 been fetched and validated.
11068 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
11069 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
11070 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
11071 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
11072 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
11073 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
11076 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
11077 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
11078 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
11079 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
11080 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
11082 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
11083 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
11084 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
11085 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
11086 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
11087 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
11088 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
11089 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
11090 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
11092 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11093 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
11094 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
11095 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
11096 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
11097 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
11098 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
11099 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
11101 o Deprecated and removed features:
11102 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
11104 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
11105 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
11106 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
11108 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11109 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
11110 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
11112 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
11113 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
11114 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
11115 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
11116 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
11117 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
11120 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
11121 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
11122 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
11123 fixes a variety of other issues.
11126 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
11127 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
11128 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
11129 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
11132 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
11133 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
11134 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
11135 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
11138 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
11139 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11140 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
11144 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
11146 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
11147 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
11148 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
11149 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
11150 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
11151 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
11152 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
11154 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
11155 rest, and don't automatically fail.
11156 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
11157 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11158 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
11159 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
11161 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
11162 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
11163 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
11164 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
11165 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
11166 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
11167 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
11168 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
11169 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
11170 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
11172 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
11176 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
11177 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
11178 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
11180 o Minor features (controller):
11181 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
11185 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
11186 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
11187 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
11188 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
11189 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
11190 variety of other issues.
11193 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
11194 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
11195 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
11196 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
11197 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
11198 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
11199 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
11200 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
11201 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
11202 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
11203 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
11204 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
11207 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
11208 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11210 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
11211 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
11212 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
11213 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
11214 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
11215 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
11216 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11217 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
11218 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
11219 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
11220 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
11221 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
11222 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
11223 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
11224 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
11228 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
11229 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
11230 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
11231 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
11232 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
11233 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
11234 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
11235 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
11236 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
11237 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
11238 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
11239 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
11240 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
11241 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
11242 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
11243 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
11244 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
11245 list. It has been gone for many months.
11246 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
11247 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
11248 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
11251 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11252 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
11253 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
11256 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
11257 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
11258 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
11259 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
11260 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
11261 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
11262 variety of other issues.
11265 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
11266 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
11267 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
11268 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
11269 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
11270 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
11271 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
11272 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
11273 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
11274 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
11275 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
11276 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
11277 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
11278 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
11281 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
11282 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
11283 Suggested by Lucky Green.
11284 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
11285 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
11286 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
11287 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
11288 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
11289 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
11291 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
11292 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
11294 o Hidden service performance improvements:
11295 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
11296 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
11297 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
11298 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
11299 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
11300 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
11301 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
11302 faster after restart.
11305 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
11306 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
11307 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
11308 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
11309 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
11310 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
11311 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
11312 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
11313 840. Patch from rovv.
11314 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
11315 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
11316 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
11317 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
11318 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
11319 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
11320 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
11321 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
11322 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
11324 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
11325 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
11326 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
11327 have already been marked for close.
11328 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
11329 introduction points.
11330 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
11331 memory performance during directory parsing.
11332 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
11333 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
11334 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
11335 because of a pending download.
11338 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
11339 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
11340 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
11341 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
11344 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
11345 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
11346 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
11347 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
11348 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
11349 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
11350 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
11351 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
11352 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
11353 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
11354 lookups more reliable.
11355 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
11356 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
11357 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
11358 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
11359 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
11360 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
11361 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
11364 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
11365 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
11366 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
11367 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
11368 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
11369 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
11370 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
11371 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
11372 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
11373 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
11374 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
11376 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
11377 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
11378 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
11379 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
11380 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
11381 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11382 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
11383 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
11384 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
11387 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
11388 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
11389 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
11390 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
11391 locked down these days.
11392 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
11393 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
11394 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
11395 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
11396 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
11398 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
11399 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
11400 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
11401 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
11402 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
11403 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
11404 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
11405 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
11406 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
11407 people find host:port too confusing.
11408 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
11409 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
11410 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
11413 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
11415 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
11416 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
11417 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
11418 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
11419 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
11421 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
11422 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
11423 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
11424 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
11425 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
11426 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
11427 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
11428 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
11429 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
11430 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
11431 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
11432 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
11434 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
11435 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
11436 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
11437 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
11438 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
11439 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
11440 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
11441 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
11442 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
11444 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
11445 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
11446 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
11447 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
11448 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
11449 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
11450 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
11451 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
11452 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
11453 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
11454 bug 820, reported by seeess.
11455 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
11456 list. It has been gone for many months.
11458 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11459 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
11460 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
11461 actual mistakes we're making here.
11462 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
11463 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
11464 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
11465 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
11468 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
11469 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
11470 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
11471 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
11474 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
11475 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
11476 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
11477 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
11478 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
11479 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
11481 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
11482 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
11483 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
11484 pointed out by rovv.
11487 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
11488 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11489 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
11490 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
11491 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
11492 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
11493 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
11494 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
11495 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
11496 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11497 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
11498 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
11499 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
11500 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
11501 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
11502 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
11503 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
11504 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
11505 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
11506 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
11507 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
11510 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
11511 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
11512 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
11513 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
11514 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
11515 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
11516 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
11519 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
11521 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
11522 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
11523 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
11524 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
11525 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
11526 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
11527 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
11529 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
11530 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
11531 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
11532 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
11533 known descriptor before building circuits.
11535 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
11536 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
11537 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
11538 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
11539 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
11540 identify a connection.
11541 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
11542 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
11543 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
11545 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
11546 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
11547 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
11548 pointed out by rovv.
11551 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
11552 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11553 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
11554 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
11555 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
11556 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
11557 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
11558 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
11559 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
11560 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
11561 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
11562 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
11563 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
11564 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
11565 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11568 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
11569 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
11570 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
11571 answer sections match.
11572 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
11573 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
11576 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
11577 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
11580 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
11581 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
11582 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
11584 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
11585 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
11586 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
11589 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
11590 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
11591 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
11592 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
11595 o Removed features:
11596 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
11597 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
11600 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
11601 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
11602 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
11603 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
11604 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
11605 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
11607 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
11608 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
11609 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
11612 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
11613 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
11614 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
11615 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
11616 be sent using an "early" cell.
11619 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
11620 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
11621 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
11622 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
11623 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
11624 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
11625 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
11628 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
11629 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
11630 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
11631 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
11632 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
11633 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
11634 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
11635 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
11636 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
11637 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
11638 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
11639 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
11640 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
11641 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
11642 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
11643 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
11646 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
11647 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
11648 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
11649 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
11650 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
11651 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
11652 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
11653 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
11654 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
11656 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
11657 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
11658 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
11659 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
11660 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
11663 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11664 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
11665 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
11666 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
11668 o Removed features:
11669 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
11670 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
11674 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
11676 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
11677 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
11678 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
11681 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
11682 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
11683 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
11686 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
11687 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
11688 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
11689 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
11690 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11691 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
11692 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
11693 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
11694 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11695 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
11696 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
11697 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
11698 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
11699 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
11700 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
11701 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
11702 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
11703 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
11704 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
11705 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
11706 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
11707 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
11708 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
11711 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
11712 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
11714 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
11715 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
11716 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
11717 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
11718 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
11719 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
11720 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
11722 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
11723 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
11724 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
11725 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
11726 found by Geoff Goodell.
11729 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
11730 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
11731 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
11732 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
11733 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
11734 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
11737 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
11738 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
11739 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
11742 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
11743 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
11744 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
11745 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
11746 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11747 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
11748 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
11749 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
11750 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11751 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
11752 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
11753 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
11754 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
11755 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
11758 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
11759 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
11760 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
11762 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
11763 fingerprints with or without space.
11764 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
11765 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
11766 partway through and wants to catch up.
11767 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
11768 state to start out in.
11771 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
11772 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
11773 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
11774 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
11775 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
11778 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
11779 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
11780 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
11781 some of the connection attempts fail.
11782 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
11783 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
11784 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
11785 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
11786 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
11787 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
11789 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
11790 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
11791 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
11794 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
11795 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
11796 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
11797 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
11798 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
11799 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
11800 and adds a variety of smaller features.
11803 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
11804 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
11805 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
11806 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
11808 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
11809 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
11810 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
11811 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
11813 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
11814 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
11815 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
11816 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
11817 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
11818 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
11819 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
11822 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
11823 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
11824 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
11825 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
11826 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
11828 o Memory fixes and improvements:
11829 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
11830 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
11831 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
11832 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
11833 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
11834 on a typical directory cache.
11835 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
11836 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
11837 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
11838 and may reduce fragmentation.
11839 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
11840 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
11841 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
11843 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
11844 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
11845 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
11847 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
11848 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
11852 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
11853 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
11854 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
11855 done that for a long time.
11856 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
11857 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
11858 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
11859 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
11862 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
11863 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
11864 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
11865 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
11866 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
11867 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
11869 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
11870 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
11871 output to messages of warning and error severity.
11872 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
11873 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
11874 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
11875 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
11876 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
11877 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
11878 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
11879 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
11880 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
11881 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
11882 directory requests we should expect to see.
11883 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
11885 - Lots of new unit tests.
11886 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
11887 two parallel lists in lockstep.
11890 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
11891 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
11892 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
11895 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
11896 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
11897 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
11898 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
11899 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
11900 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
11901 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
11904 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
11905 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
11906 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
11910 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
11911 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
11912 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
11915 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
11916 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
11917 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
11919 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
11920 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
11922 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
11923 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
11924 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
11925 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
11926 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11927 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
11928 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
11930 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
11931 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
11932 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
11933 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
11934 - Fix compile on Windows.
11937 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
11938 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
11939 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
11940 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
11941 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
11942 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
11943 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
11946 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
11947 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
11950 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
11951 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
11952 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
11953 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
11955 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
11956 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
11957 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
11960 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
11961 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
11962 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
11963 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
11967 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
11968 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
11969 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
11970 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
11972 o Major security fixes:
11973 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
11974 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
11975 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
11976 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
11977 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
11980 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
11981 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11984 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
11985 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
11988 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
11989 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
11992 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
11993 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
11994 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
11997 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
11998 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12001 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
12002 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
12003 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
12004 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
12005 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
12007 o New directory authorities:
12008 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
12009 it has been down for months.
12010 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
12014 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
12015 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
12017 o Minor features (security):
12018 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
12019 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
12020 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
12023 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
12024 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
12025 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
12026 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
12027 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
12028 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
12029 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
12030 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
12031 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
12033 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
12034 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
12035 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
12036 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
12037 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
12038 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
12039 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12040 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
12041 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
12043 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
12044 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
12045 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
12046 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
12047 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
12048 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
12049 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
12050 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
12051 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
12052 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
12053 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12054 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
12055 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
12056 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
12057 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
12058 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
12059 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
12060 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
12061 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
12064 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
12065 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
12066 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
12067 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
12070 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
12071 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
12072 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
12073 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
12076 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
12077 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
12078 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
12079 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
12080 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
12083 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
12084 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
12085 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
12086 certain censored countries by default again.
12089 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
12090 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
12091 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
12092 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
12093 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
12094 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
12095 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
12096 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
12098 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
12099 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
12100 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
12101 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
12102 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
12103 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
12104 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
12105 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
12106 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
12107 a directory. Fix from lodger.
12109 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
12110 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
12111 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
12112 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
12113 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
12114 RelayBandwidth* values.
12115 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
12116 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
12117 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
12118 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
12119 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
12120 get_interface_address6().
12121 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
12122 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
12123 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
12125 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
12126 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
12127 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
12128 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12129 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
12130 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
12131 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
12132 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
12133 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
12134 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12137 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
12138 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
12139 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
12142 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
12143 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
12144 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
12145 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
12146 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
12149 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
12150 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
12151 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
12152 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
12153 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
12154 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
12155 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
12156 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
12157 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
12160 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
12161 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
12162 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
12163 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
12166 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
12167 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
12168 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
12169 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
12170 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
12171 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
12172 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
12175 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
12176 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
12177 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
12178 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
12179 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
12180 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
12181 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
12183 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
12184 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
12185 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
12186 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
12187 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
12190 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
12191 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
12192 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
12193 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
12194 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
12195 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
12196 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12197 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
12198 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
12199 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
12200 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
12201 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
12202 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
12203 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
12204 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
12205 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12206 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
12207 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12208 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12209 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
12210 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
12211 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
12212 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
12213 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
12214 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
12215 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
12217 o Minor features (performance):
12218 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
12220 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
12221 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
12222 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
12223 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
12224 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
12225 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
12226 non-system include paths.
12227 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
12228 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
12231 o Minor features (other):
12232 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
12234 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
12235 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
12236 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
12239 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
12240 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
12241 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
12242 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
12244 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
12245 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
12246 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
12247 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
12248 Should fix bug 537.
12249 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
12250 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
12251 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12252 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
12253 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12255 o Minor bugfixes (other):
12256 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
12257 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
12258 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
12259 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
12260 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
12261 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
12262 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
12263 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
12264 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
12265 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
12266 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
12267 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
12268 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
12269 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
12270 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12271 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
12272 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
12273 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
12274 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
12275 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
12276 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
12277 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
12278 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
12279 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
12282 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12283 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
12284 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
12288 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
12289 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
12290 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
12291 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
12292 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
12295 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
12296 Tor's x509 certificates.
12299 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
12300 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
12301 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12302 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
12303 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
12304 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12306 o Minor features (security):
12307 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
12308 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
12310 o Minor features (directory authority):
12311 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
12312 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
12313 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
12314 bandwidthburst values.
12316 o Minor features (controller):
12317 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
12318 processes from running us out of memory.
12320 o Minor features (misc):
12321 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
12322 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
12323 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
12324 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
12326 o Deprecated features (controller):
12327 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
12328 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
12329 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
12332 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
12333 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
12335 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
12336 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
12337 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12338 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
12339 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
12340 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12341 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
12342 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
12344 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
12345 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12346 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
12347 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12348 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
12349 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
12350 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
12351 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
12353 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
12354 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
12355 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
12356 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
12357 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12358 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
12359 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12360 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
12361 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12362 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
12363 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
12364 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12366 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12367 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
12369 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
12370 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
12371 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
12372 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
12373 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
12374 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
12377 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
12378 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
12379 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
12380 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
12381 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
12383 o New directory authorities:
12384 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
12388 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
12389 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
12390 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
12391 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
12392 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
12393 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
12394 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
12395 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
12399 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
12400 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
12401 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
12402 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
12403 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
12404 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
12405 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
12406 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
12407 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
12408 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
12411 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
12412 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
12413 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
12414 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
12418 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
12419 the request isn't encrypted.
12420 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
12421 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
12422 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
12423 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
12424 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
12427 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
12428 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
12431 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
12434 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
12435 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
12436 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
12438 o New directory authorities:
12439 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
12442 o Major performance improvements:
12443 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
12444 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
12445 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
12446 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
12447 memory fragmentation.
12450 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
12451 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
12452 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
12453 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
12454 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
12455 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
12456 bodies when they receive them.
12457 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
12458 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
12459 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
12461 o Minor performance improvements:
12462 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
12463 of them were actually distinct.
12464 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
12465 interested in a given message.
12468 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
12469 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
12470 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
12471 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
12472 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
12473 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
12474 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
12475 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
12476 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
12477 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
12478 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
12480 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
12481 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
12482 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
12483 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
12484 this country" and "1 person from this country".
12485 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
12486 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
12487 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
12488 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
12489 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
12491 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
12492 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
12493 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
12495 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
12496 but client versions are not.
12497 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
12498 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
12500 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
12501 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
12502 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
12503 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
12504 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
12506 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
12507 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
12508 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
12511 o Minor features (controller):
12512 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
12513 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
12514 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
12515 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
12517 o Minor features (directory authorities):
12518 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
12519 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
12520 running a test network on a single host.
12521 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
12522 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
12524 o Minor features (bridges):
12525 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
12526 unencrypted connections.
12528 o Minor features (other):
12529 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
12530 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
12531 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
12532 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
12535 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
12536 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
12537 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
12538 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
12541 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
12542 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
12543 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
12544 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
12545 on network address.
12548 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
12549 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
12550 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
12551 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
12552 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
12553 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
12554 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
12555 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
12556 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
12557 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
12558 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
12559 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
12562 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
12563 rebuild our server descriptor.
12564 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
12565 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
12566 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
12567 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
12568 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
12569 nonstandard integer types.
12570 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
12571 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
12572 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
12573 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
12574 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
12576 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
12577 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
12578 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
12579 when they receive them.
12580 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
12581 This includes some 64-bit systems.
12582 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
12583 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
12584 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
12585 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
12586 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
12587 router_get_by_hexdigest().
12588 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
12589 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
12593 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
12594 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
12595 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
12598 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
12599 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
12600 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
12601 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
12602 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
12603 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
12604 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
12605 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12608 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
12609 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
12610 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
12611 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
12613 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
12614 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
12617 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
12618 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
12621 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
12623 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
12624 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
12626 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
12627 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
12628 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
12629 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12630 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
12631 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
12632 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
12633 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
12634 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
12635 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
12639 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
12640 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
12641 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
12644 - Make the unit tests build again.
12645 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
12646 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
12647 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
12648 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
12649 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
12650 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12651 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
12652 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
12653 the next one as a duplicate.
12656 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
12657 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
12658 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
12659 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
12662 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
12663 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
12664 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
12667 o New directory authorities:
12668 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
12672 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
12673 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
12674 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
12675 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
12676 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
12677 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
12678 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
12680 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
12681 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
12683 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
12684 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
12685 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
12686 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
12687 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
12688 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
12690 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
12691 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
12692 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
12693 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
12694 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
12695 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12698 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
12699 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
12700 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
12701 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
12702 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
12703 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
12704 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
12705 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
12706 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
12707 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
12708 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
12709 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
12710 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
12711 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
12712 where Tor is blocked.
12713 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
12714 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
12715 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
12716 to a file periodically.
12717 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
12718 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
12719 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
12723 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
12724 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
12725 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
12726 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
12727 in the relevant networkstatus document.
12728 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
12729 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
12730 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
12731 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
12732 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
12733 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
12734 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
12735 by Karsten Loesing.
12736 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
12737 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
12738 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
12739 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
12740 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
12741 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12742 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
12743 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
12744 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
12745 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12746 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
12747 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
12748 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
12749 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12750 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
12751 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
12752 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
12753 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
12754 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
12755 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12756 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12757 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
12758 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12759 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
12760 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
12761 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
12762 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
12763 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12766 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
12767 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
12768 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
12769 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
12770 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
12771 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
12772 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
12773 even if your DirPort isn't on.
12774 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
12775 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
12776 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
12778 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
12779 multiple controller passwords.
12780 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
12781 router based on the router's purpose.
12782 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
12783 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
12784 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
12785 the approved-routers file.
12788 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
12789 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
12790 well as a few minor bugs.
12793 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
12794 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
12795 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
12797 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
12798 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
12799 rebuild our server descriptor.
12801 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
12802 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
12803 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
12804 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
12805 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
12806 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
12807 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
12808 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
12809 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
12810 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
12812 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
12813 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
12814 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
12815 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
12816 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
12817 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
12818 then be flexible about families.
12821 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
12822 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
12823 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
12827 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
12828 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
12829 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
12830 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
12831 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
12834 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
12835 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
12836 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
12837 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
12838 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12841 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
12842 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
12844 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
12845 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
12846 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
12847 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
12848 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
12849 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
12850 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
12852 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
12853 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
12854 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
12855 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
12858 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
12859 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
12862 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
12863 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
12864 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12867 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
12868 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
12869 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
12870 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
12871 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
12872 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
12873 addresses many more minor issues.
12875 o New directory authorities:
12876 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
12879 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
12880 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
12881 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
12882 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
12884 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
12885 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
12886 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
12887 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
12888 and are reaching it.
12889 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
12890 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
12891 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
12892 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
12893 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
12894 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
12897 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
12898 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
12900 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
12901 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
12902 no longer work for clients.
12903 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
12904 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
12906 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
12907 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
12908 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
12909 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
12910 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
12911 enough directory information to build a circuit.
12912 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
12913 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
12914 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
12915 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
12916 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
12917 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
12919 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
12920 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
12921 requests for all of them.
12922 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
12924 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
12925 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
12926 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
12928 o New requirements:
12929 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
12930 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
12934 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
12935 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
12936 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
12937 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
12938 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
12939 networkstatuses that we already have.
12940 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
12941 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
12942 we start knowing some directory caches.
12943 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
12944 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
12945 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
12946 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
12947 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
12948 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
12949 Good in combination with --hash-password.
12950 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
12951 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
12953 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
12954 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
12955 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
12957 o Minor features (bridges):
12958 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
12959 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
12960 back to trying the bridge directly.
12961 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
12962 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
12964 o Minor features (controller):
12965 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
12966 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
12967 report the value as a "minimum skew."
12970 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
12971 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
12975 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
12976 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
12977 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
12978 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
12979 reported by tup and ioerror.
12980 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
12981 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
12983 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
12984 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
12986 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
12987 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
12988 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
12990 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
12991 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12992 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
12993 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12994 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
12995 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12996 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
12998 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
12999 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
13000 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13002 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
13003 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
13004 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
13005 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
13006 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
13009 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
13010 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
13011 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
13012 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
13013 lists for a few hours each day.
13015 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
13016 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
13017 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
13018 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
13019 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
13020 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
13021 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
13022 rend_process_relay_cell().
13024 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
13025 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
13026 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
13027 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
13028 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
13029 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
13030 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
13031 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
13033 o Major bugfixes (other):
13034 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
13035 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
13036 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
13037 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
13038 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
13039 circuit cannibalization).
13040 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
13041 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
13042 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
13043 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
13044 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
13045 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
13048 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
13049 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
13051 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
13052 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
13053 absent. Resolves bug 467.
13054 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
13055 a way to trigger this remotely.)
13056 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
13057 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
13058 were reporting the dir port.)
13059 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
13060 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
13061 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
13062 the future. Fixes bug 434.
13063 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
13065 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
13066 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
13067 the onion key from getting rotated.
13068 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
13069 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
13070 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
13071 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
13072 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
13073 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
13074 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
13075 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
13076 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
13079 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
13080 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
13081 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
13082 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
13083 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
13084 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
13086 o Major features (directory system):
13087 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
13088 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
13089 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
13090 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
13091 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
13092 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
13093 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
13094 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
13095 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
13096 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
13097 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
13098 Partially implements proposal 122.
13099 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
13100 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
13103 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
13104 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
13105 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
13106 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
13108 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
13109 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
13110 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
13111 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
13112 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
13113 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13114 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
13115 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
13116 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13118 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
13119 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
13121 - Allow certificates to include an address.
13122 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
13123 and download operations.
13124 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
13125 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
13126 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
13127 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
13128 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
13129 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
13131 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
13132 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
13135 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
13136 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
13137 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
13138 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
13140 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
13141 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
13142 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
13144 o Minor features (performance):
13145 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
13146 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
13147 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
13148 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
13149 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
13150 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
13151 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
13154 o Minor features (compilation):
13155 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
13156 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
13158 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
13159 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
13160 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
13161 stick around indefinitely.
13162 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
13164 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
13165 v3 directory authority.
13166 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
13167 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
13169 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
13170 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
13171 "moria on moria:9031."
13172 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
13173 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
13174 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
13175 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
13176 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
13177 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
13178 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
13179 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
13181 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
13182 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
13183 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
13184 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
13185 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
13186 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
13187 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
13188 downloads than for other types.
13190 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
13191 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
13193 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
13194 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
13195 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13197 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13198 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
13199 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13200 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
13201 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
13202 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
13203 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
13204 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
13206 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
13207 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
13208 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
13209 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
13210 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
13211 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
13212 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
13213 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13214 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
13215 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
13216 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
13218 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
13219 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
13222 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13223 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
13224 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
13225 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
13226 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
13227 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
13228 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
13229 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
13230 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
13231 so that they all take the same named flags.
13234 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
13235 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
13236 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
13239 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
13240 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
13241 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
13242 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
13243 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
13244 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
13246 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
13247 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
13248 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
13249 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
13250 annotations along with descriptors.
13251 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
13252 source, and its purpose.
13253 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
13255 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
13256 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
13257 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
13258 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
13261 o Major features (directory authorities):
13262 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
13264 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
13265 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
13266 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
13267 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
13268 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
13269 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
13271 o Major features (v3 directory system):
13272 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
13273 and download the descriptors listed in them.
13274 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
13275 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
13276 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
13278 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
13279 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
13280 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
13281 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
13284 o Major bugfixes (performance):
13285 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
13286 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
13287 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
13288 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
13290 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
13291 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
13292 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
13293 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
13294 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
13295 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
13297 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
13298 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
13300 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
13301 certificate is requested.
13302 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
13303 certificate requests.
13305 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
13306 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
13307 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
13308 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
13311 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13312 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
13313 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
13314 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13316 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
13317 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
13319 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
13320 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
13321 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
13322 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
13323 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
13324 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
13325 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
13326 downloads more sensible.
13327 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
13328 another when serving certificates.
13330 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13331 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
13332 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
13333 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
13335 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
13336 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
13337 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
13339 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
13340 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
13342 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13343 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
13344 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
13345 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
13346 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
13348 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
13349 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
13350 WARN-severity events.
13351 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
13352 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
13353 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
13355 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
13356 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
13357 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
13359 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
13360 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
13361 circuit cannibalization).
13363 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13364 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
13365 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
13366 new module, networkstatus.c.
13367 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
13368 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
13369 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
13370 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
13371 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
13372 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
13373 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
13374 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
13375 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
13377 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
13379 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
13380 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
13383 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
13384 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
13385 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
13386 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
13388 o New directory authorities:
13389 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
13390 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
13392 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
13393 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
13394 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13396 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
13397 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
13398 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
13399 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
13400 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
13401 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
13402 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
13403 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
13404 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
13405 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
13406 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13408 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
13409 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
13410 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
13411 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
13412 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
13413 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
13414 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
13415 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
13416 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
13418 o Minor features (security):
13419 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
13420 address maps to an internal address space.
13421 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
13422 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
13424 o Minor features (guard nodes):
13425 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
13426 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
13427 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
13428 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
13430 o Minor features (speed):
13431 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
13432 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
13433 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
13434 on big-endian hosts.)
13436 o Minor features (controller):
13437 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
13438 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
13439 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
13440 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
13443 o Removed features:
13444 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
13445 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
13446 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
13447 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
13448 implementation of proposal 104.
13449 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
13450 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
13451 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
13452 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
13453 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
13454 patch from Karsten Loesing.
13455 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
13456 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
13459 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
13460 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
13461 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13462 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
13463 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13464 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
13465 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13466 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
13467 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
13468 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13469 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
13470 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
13471 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
13472 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13473 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
13474 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
13475 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
13476 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13477 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
13478 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
13480 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13481 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
13482 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
13484 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
13485 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
13486 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
13487 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
13490 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
13491 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
13492 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
13493 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
13494 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
13497 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
13498 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
13501 o Major bugfixes (security):
13502 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
13503 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
13504 become more of a headache than it's worth.
13506 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
13507 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
13508 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
13510 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
13511 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
13512 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
13513 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
13514 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
13515 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
13517 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
13518 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
13519 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
13520 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
13521 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
13523 o Minor features (controller):
13524 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
13525 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
13526 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
13527 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
13529 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13530 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
13531 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
13532 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
13533 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
13534 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
13535 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
13536 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
13538 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
13539 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
13540 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
13541 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
13542 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
13543 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
13544 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
13545 if we ran off the end of the list.
13546 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
13547 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
13548 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
13549 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
13550 every time we change any piece of our config.
13551 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
13552 encourage people using them to stop.
13553 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
13555 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
13556 servers to choose a circuit.
13557 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
13558 unparseable piece of it.
13561 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
13562 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
13563 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
13564 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
13567 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
13568 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
13569 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
13570 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
13571 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
13573 o New directory authorities:
13574 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
13577 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
13578 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
13579 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
13580 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
13582 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
13583 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
13584 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
13586 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
13587 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
13588 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
13589 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
13590 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
13591 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
13593 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
13594 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
13595 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13598 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
13599 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
13600 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
13601 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
13605 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
13606 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
13607 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
13608 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
13610 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
13611 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
13613 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
13614 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
13615 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
13616 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
13617 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
13618 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
13619 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13620 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
13621 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13622 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
13625 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
13626 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
13627 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
13628 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
13629 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
13630 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
13632 o Removed features:
13633 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
13634 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
13635 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
13636 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
13639 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
13640 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
13641 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
13642 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
13643 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
13646 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
13647 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
13648 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
13649 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
13650 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
13651 reported by lodger.
13653 o Minor features (directory servers):
13654 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
13655 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
13657 o Minor features (directory voting):
13658 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
13661 o Minor features (security):
13662 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
13663 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
13664 encourage people using them to stop.
13666 o Minor features (controller):
13667 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
13668 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
13669 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
13670 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
13671 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
13672 cookie authentication file, and config option
13673 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
13675 o Minor features (unit testing):
13676 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
13677 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
13678 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
13679 logging for the unit tests.
13681 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
13682 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
13683 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
13684 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
13685 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
13686 every time we change any piece of our config.
13687 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
13688 the future. Fixes bug 434.
13689 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
13691 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
13692 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
13693 the onion key from getting rotated.
13694 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
13695 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
13696 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
13699 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
13700 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
13701 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
13703 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
13704 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
13705 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
13706 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
13709 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
13710 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
13711 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
13712 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
13713 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
13714 TorK, etc. Or worse.
13716 o Major security fixes:
13717 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
13718 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
13721 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
13722 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
13723 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
13724 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
13726 o Major security fixes:
13727 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
13728 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
13730 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
13731 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
13734 o Minor features (performance):
13735 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
13736 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
13737 performance-intensive.
13738 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
13739 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
13740 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
13741 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
13742 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
13743 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
13747 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
13748 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
13749 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
13750 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
13754 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
13755 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
13756 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
13757 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
13758 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
13760 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
13761 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
13762 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
13763 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
13765 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
13766 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
13767 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
13768 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
13769 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
13771 o Major features (experimental):
13772 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
13773 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
13774 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
13775 handling before it's ready for use.
13778 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
13779 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
13780 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
13781 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
13782 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
13783 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
13785 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
13786 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
13787 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
13788 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
13789 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
13791 o Major bugfixes (directory):
13792 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
13793 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
13795 o Minor features (controller):
13796 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
13797 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
13798 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
13799 from Robert Hogan.)
13800 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
13801 from Robert Hogan.)
13802 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
13803 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
13805 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
13806 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
13807 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
13808 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
13809 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
13810 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
13811 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
13814 o Minor features (misc):
13815 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
13817 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
13818 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
13819 the authority identity key.
13820 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
13822 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
13823 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
13824 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
13827 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
13828 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
13829 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
13830 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
13831 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
13832 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
13833 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
13834 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
13836 o Performance improvements:
13837 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
13839 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
13840 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
13843 o Deprecated and removed features:
13844 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
13845 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
13846 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
13847 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
13849 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
13850 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
13851 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
13852 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
13853 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
13854 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
13855 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
13856 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
13857 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
13860 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
13861 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
13862 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
13863 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
13864 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
13866 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
13867 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
13870 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13871 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
13872 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
13873 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
13874 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
13875 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
13876 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
13877 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
13878 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
13881 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
13882 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
13883 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
13884 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
13886 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
13887 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
13889 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
13890 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
13891 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
13892 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
13893 routerlist while inserting a new router.
13894 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
13895 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
13897 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
13898 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
13899 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
13901 o Major bugfixes (security):
13902 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
13904 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
13905 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
13906 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
13907 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
13908 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
13909 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
13910 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
13911 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
13912 guard list unless we need to.
13914 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
13915 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
13916 don't get overused as guards.
13918 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
13919 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
13920 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
13921 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
13922 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
13924 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13925 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
13926 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
13929 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
13930 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
13931 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
13932 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
13933 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
13934 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
13935 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
13936 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
13939 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
13940 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
13941 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
13942 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
13944 o Minor features (directory):
13945 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
13946 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
13947 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
13948 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
13950 o Minor build issues:
13951 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
13952 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
13953 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
13954 in the tarball, not as "x".
13957 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
13958 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
13959 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
13960 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
13961 forward on a lot of fronts.
13963 o Major features, server usability:
13964 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
13965 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
13966 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
13967 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
13969 o Major features, client usability:
13970 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
13971 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
13972 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
13973 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
13974 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
13975 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
13976 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
13977 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
13979 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
13980 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
13981 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
13982 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
13983 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
13984 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
13986 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
13987 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
13988 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
13990 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
13991 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
13992 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
13993 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
13994 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
13996 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
13997 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
13998 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
13999 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
14001 o Major features, other:
14002 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
14003 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
14004 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
14005 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
14006 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
14009 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
14010 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
14011 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
14014 o Minor fixes (resource management):
14015 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
14016 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
14017 our allocated connection limit.
14018 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
14019 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
14020 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
14021 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
14022 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
14024 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
14025 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
14026 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
14028 o Minor features (build):
14029 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
14030 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
14031 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
14032 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
14034 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
14035 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
14036 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
14037 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
14038 Use this version consistently in log messages.
14040 o Minor features (logging):
14041 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
14042 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
14043 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
14044 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
14045 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
14048 o Minor features (directory system):
14049 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
14050 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
14051 not to serve V2 directory information.
14052 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
14053 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
14054 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
14056 o Minor features (controller):
14057 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
14058 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
14060 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
14061 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
14062 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
14063 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
14064 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
14065 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
14067 o Minor features (hidden services):
14068 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
14069 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
14070 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
14071 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
14073 o Minor features (other):
14075 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
14076 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
14077 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
14078 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
14079 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
14080 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
14081 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
14082 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
14083 longer a completely silly thing to do.
14084 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
14085 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
14086 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
14087 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
14089 o Removed features:
14090 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
14091 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
14092 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
14093 back an error and close the connection.
14094 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
14095 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
14098 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14099 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
14100 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
14101 makes the log messages nicer.
14102 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
14103 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
14104 partial results on small file reads.
14106 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
14107 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
14108 more often than they are allowed to appear.
14109 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
14110 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
14112 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14113 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
14114 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
14115 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
14117 o Minor bugfixes (other):
14118 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
14119 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
14120 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
14121 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
14122 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
14123 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
14124 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
14125 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
14126 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
14127 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
14129 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
14130 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
14131 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
14133 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
14134 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
14135 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
14136 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
14138 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14139 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
14140 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
14142 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
14143 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
14146 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
14147 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
14148 implicit in other procedure arguments.
14149 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
14150 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
14151 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
14152 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
14153 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
14154 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
14155 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
14156 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
14157 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
14160 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
14161 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
14162 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
14163 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
14165 o Directory authority changes:
14166 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
14167 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
14168 or use hidden services.
14170 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
14171 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
14172 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
14173 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
14174 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
14175 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
14176 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
14177 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
14178 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
14181 o Major bugfixes (security):
14182 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
14183 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
14184 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
14186 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
14187 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
14188 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
14189 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
14190 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
14191 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
14192 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
14193 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
14194 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
14195 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
14198 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
14199 purpose=controller.
14200 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
14201 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
14203 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
14204 having a hard time downloading.
14205 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
14206 partial results on small file reads.
14207 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
14208 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
14209 the gaps in the store get very large.
14212 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
14213 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
14215 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
14216 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
14219 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
14220 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
14221 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
14222 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
14223 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
14224 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
14226 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
14227 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
14228 free speech on the Internet.
14231 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
14232 get one we don't recognize.
14233 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
14234 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
14237 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
14239 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
14240 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
14241 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
14242 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
14245 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
14246 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
14249 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
14250 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
14251 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
14252 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
14253 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
14254 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
14255 ask for GUARDS too.
14258 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
14259 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
14260 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
14261 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
14262 on Win98 and friends again.
14264 o Minor bugfixes (other):
14265 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
14266 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
14269 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
14270 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
14271 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
14272 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
14273 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
14274 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
14275 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
14276 and maybe also bug 397.)
14278 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
14279 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
14280 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
14282 o Minor bugfixes (server):
14283 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
14286 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
14287 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
14288 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
14289 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
14290 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
14292 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14293 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
14294 load on authorities.
14296 o Minor bugfixes (other):
14297 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
14298 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
14299 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
14301 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
14303 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
14304 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
14305 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
14306 the last of bug 326.)
14307 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
14308 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
14312 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
14313 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
14314 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
14315 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
14316 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
14317 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
14318 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
14320 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
14321 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
14323 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
14324 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
14325 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
14327 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
14328 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
14329 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
14331 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14332 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
14333 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
14334 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
14336 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
14337 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
14339 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
14340 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
14341 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
14344 o Minor bugfixes (other):
14345 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
14346 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
14347 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
14348 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
14349 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
14350 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
14351 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
14352 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
14353 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
14354 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
14355 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
14356 other than file-not-found.
14357 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
14358 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
14359 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
14360 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
14361 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
14362 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
14363 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
14364 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
14365 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
14366 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
14367 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
14368 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
14369 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
14370 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
14371 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
14373 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
14375 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
14376 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
14378 o Minor features (controller):
14379 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
14380 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
14381 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
14383 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
14384 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
14385 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
14386 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
14387 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
14388 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
14389 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
14390 connected or resolved cell.
14392 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
14393 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
14394 some profiles, but not others.)
14395 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
14396 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
14397 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
14400 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
14402 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
14403 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
14404 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
14405 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
14406 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
14407 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
14408 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
14409 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
14410 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
14411 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
14412 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
14413 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
14414 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
14415 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
14416 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
14418 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
14421 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
14422 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
14423 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
14424 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
14425 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
14426 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
14427 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
14429 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
14430 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
14431 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
14432 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
14433 buckets go absurdly negative.
14434 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
14435 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
14438 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
14439 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
14440 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
14441 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
14442 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
14443 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
14444 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
14445 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
14448 o Major bugfixes (other):
14449 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
14450 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
14451 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
14452 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
14454 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
14456 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
14457 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
14459 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
14460 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
14461 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
14462 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
14463 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
14464 to wait for 0.2.0.)
14466 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
14467 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
14468 possible memory-stomping bugs.
14469 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
14470 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
14472 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
14473 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
14474 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
14475 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
14476 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
14477 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
14479 o Minor bugfixes (other):
14480 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
14481 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
14482 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
14484 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
14485 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
14486 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
14487 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
14488 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
14489 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
14490 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
14491 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
14492 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
14493 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
14494 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
14495 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
14496 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
14498 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
14499 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
14500 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
14501 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
14502 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
14503 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
14504 to the resulting address.
14507 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
14508 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
14509 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
14510 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
14513 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
14514 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
14516 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
14517 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
14518 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
14519 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
14520 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
14521 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
14522 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
14523 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
14524 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
14525 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
14526 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
14527 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
14528 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
14529 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
14530 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
14531 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
14532 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
14535 o Minor features (controller):
14536 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
14537 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
14538 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
14539 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
14540 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
14541 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
14542 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
14546 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
14548 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
14549 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
14550 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
14551 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
14552 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
14553 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
14556 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
14557 weren't planning to resolve.
14558 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
14559 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
14560 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
14561 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
14562 the controller from learning about current events.
14564 o Minor features (more controller status events):
14565 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
14566 learn when our address changes.
14567 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
14568 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
14569 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
14570 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
14572 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
14573 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
14574 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
14575 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
14576 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
14577 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
14578 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
14579 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
14580 are accepted by a directory.
14581 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
14582 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
14583 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
14584 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
14585 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
14587 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
14588 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
14589 about changes to DNS server status.
14591 o Minor features (directory):
14592 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
14593 too much load to the exit nodes.
14596 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
14598 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
14599 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
14600 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
14601 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
14602 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
14604 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
14605 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
14606 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
14608 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
14609 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
14610 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
14611 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
14612 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
14613 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
14614 config options if you like.
14616 o Minor features (config and docs):
14617 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
14618 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
14619 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
14620 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
14621 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
14623 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
14624 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
14625 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
14626 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
14627 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
14629 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
14630 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
14631 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
14632 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
14633 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
14634 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
14635 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
14636 documentation: "make check-docs".
14637 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
14638 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
14640 o Minor features (DNS):
14641 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
14642 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
14643 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
14644 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
14645 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
14646 our tests for DNS hijacking.
14648 o Minor features (directory):
14649 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
14650 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
14651 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
14652 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
14653 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
14654 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
14655 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
14656 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
14657 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
14658 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
14659 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
14660 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
14661 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
14662 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
14663 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
14664 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
14665 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
14666 for the thing we're trying to download.
14667 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
14668 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
14669 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
14671 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
14672 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
14673 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
14676 o Minor features (controller):
14677 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
14678 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
14680 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
14681 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
14682 entry guard status as it changes.
14684 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
14685 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
14686 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
14687 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
14688 to set log options.
14689 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
14690 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
14691 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
14692 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
14695 o Major bugfixes (security):
14696 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
14697 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
14698 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
14699 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
14701 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
14702 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
14703 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
14704 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
14705 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
14707 o Major bugfixes (other):
14708 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
14709 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
14710 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
14711 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
14713 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
14714 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
14715 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
14716 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
14717 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
14718 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
14722 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
14723 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
14724 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
14725 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
14726 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
14728 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
14729 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
14731 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
14732 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
14733 family lists conveniently.
14734 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
14735 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
14736 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
14738 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
14739 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
14741 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
14742 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
14743 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
14744 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
14745 if their identity keys are as expected.
14746 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
14747 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
14748 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
14750 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14751 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
14752 reported by Mike Perry.
14753 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
14754 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
14755 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
14756 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
14759 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
14760 o Security bugfixes:
14761 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
14762 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
14763 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
14764 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
14768 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
14769 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
14770 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
14773 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
14775 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
14776 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
14777 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
14780 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
14781 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
14782 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
14783 watching for STREAM events.
14784 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
14785 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
14786 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
14787 operations, for profiling.
14790 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
14791 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
14792 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
14793 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
14794 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
14795 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
14797 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
14801 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
14802 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
14803 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
14804 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
14805 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
14807 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
14808 correctly in the Windows installer.
14809 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
14810 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
14811 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
14812 MIPSpro C compiler.
14813 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
14814 when we're running as a client.
14817 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
14819 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
14820 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
14821 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
14822 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
14823 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
14824 its circuits on demand.
14825 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
14826 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
14827 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
14828 connections more stable on average.
14829 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
14830 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
14831 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
14833 o Security bugfixes:
14834 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
14835 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
14838 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
14840 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
14841 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
14842 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
14843 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
14844 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
14845 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
14846 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
14847 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
14850 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
14852 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
14853 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
14854 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
14855 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
14856 routers for even longer.
14857 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
14858 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
14859 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
14860 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
14861 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
14862 caching HTTP proxies.
14863 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
14866 o Minor features, controller:
14867 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
14868 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
14869 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
14870 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
14872 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
14873 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
14874 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
14875 working much like those for circuit events.
14876 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
14877 about the current status of a router.
14878 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
14879 a router's status has changed.
14880 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
14881 can tell which events and features are supported.
14882 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
14883 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
14885 o Security bugfixes:
14886 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
14887 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
14890 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
14891 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
14892 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
14893 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
14894 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
14895 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
14896 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
14897 long nicknames where appropriate.
14898 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
14899 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
14900 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
14901 chews through many circuits before giving up.
14902 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
14903 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
14904 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
14905 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
14906 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
14907 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
14909 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
14910 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
14911 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
14913 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
14914 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
14915 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
14916 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
14917 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
14918 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
14919 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
14920 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
14921 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
14922 (reported by fookoowa).
14923 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
14924 and reported by some Centos users.
14925 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
14926 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
14927 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
14928 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
14929 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
14930 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
14931 before we check for libevent.
14934 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
14936 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
14937 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
14938 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
14939 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
14940 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
14941 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
14942 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
14943 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
14944 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
14945 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
14946 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
14947 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
14948 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
14949 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
14950 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
14951 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
14952 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
14953 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
14954 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
14955 lets you turn it off.
14956 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
14957 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
14958 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
14959 us into the directory more quickly.
14961 o New/improved config options:
14962 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
14963 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
14964 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
14965 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
14966 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
14967 all the machines on the same subnet.
14968 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
14969 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
14970 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
14971 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
14972 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
14973 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
14974 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
14975 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
14976 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
14977 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
14979 o Minor features, controller:
14980 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
14981 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
14982 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
14983 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
14984 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
14985 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
14986 for more information.
14987 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
14988 best guess to the user.
14989 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
14990 descriptor has changed.
14991 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
14993 o Minor features, other:
14994 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
14995 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
14996 useful to the network.
14997 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
14998 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
14999 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
15000 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
15001 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
15002 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
15003 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
15004 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
15005 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
15006 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
15007 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
15008 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
15009 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
15010 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
15011 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
15013 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
15014 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
15015 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
15016 could return an unnamed server instead.
15017 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
15018 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
15019 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
15020 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
15021 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
15022 a more attractive target for compromise.)
15023 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
15024 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
15025 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
15027 o Major bugfixes, other:
15028 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
15029 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
15030 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
15031 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
15032 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
15033 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
15034 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
15035 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
15036 its circuits on demand.
15037 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
15038 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
15039 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
15040 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
15042 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
15043 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
15044 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
15045 we don't recognize.
15046 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
15048 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
15049 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
15050 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
15051 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
15052 "extendcircuit" request.
15053 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
15054 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
15055 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
15057 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
15058 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
15059 instead of "X resolved to X".
15060 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
15061 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
15062 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
15063 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
15064 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
15065 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
15066 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
15067 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
15068 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
15070 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
15071 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
15072 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
15073 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
15074 result more than once.
15075 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
15076 non-versioning dirservers.
15077 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
15078 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
15080 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
15081 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
15082 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
15083 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
15084 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
15085 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
15086 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
15087 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
15088 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
15090 o Packaging, features:
15091 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
15092 now universal binaries.
15093 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
15094 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
15095 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
15097 o Packaging, bugfixes:
15098 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
15099 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
15100 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
15101 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
15103 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
15104 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
15105 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
15108 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
15109 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
15110 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
15114 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
15116 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
15117 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
15118 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
15119 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
15120 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
15121 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
15122 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
15123 it can't resolve its hostname.
15126 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
15127 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
15128 "extendcircuit" request.
15129 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
15130 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
15131 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
15132 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
15134 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
15135 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
15136 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
15138 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
15139 methods: these are known to be buggy.
15140 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
15141 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
15142 we don't recognize.
15145 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
15147 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
15148 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
15149 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
15150 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
15151 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
15152 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
15153 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
15154 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
15155 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
15156 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
15157 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
15158 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
15159 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
15160 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
15161 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
15162 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
15163 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
15164 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
15165 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
15166 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
15167 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
15168 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
15169 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
15170 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
15173 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
15174 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
15175 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
15176 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
15177 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
15178 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
15179 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
15180 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
15181 recommendation system saner.)
15182 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
15184 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
15185 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
15186 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
15187 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
15188 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
15189 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
15190 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
15191 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
15192 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
15193 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
15194 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
15195 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
15196 your ORPort is set.
15197 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
15198 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
15199 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
15200 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
15201 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
15202 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
15203 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
15204 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
15205 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
15206 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
15207 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
15208 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
15210 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
15211 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
15212 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
15213 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
15214 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
15215 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
15218 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
15219 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
15220 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
15221 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
15222 our DirPort now, etc.
15223 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
15224 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
15225 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
15226 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
15227 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
15228 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
15229 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
15231 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
15232 whether the config options are bad or good.
15233 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
15234 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
15235 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
15236 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
15237 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
15238 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
15239 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
15240 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
15243 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
15244 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
15245 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
15246 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
15247 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
15248 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
15249 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
15250 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
15251 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
15252 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
15253 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
15254 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
15255 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
15256 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
15257 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
15258 of it), is not therefore "up".
15259 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
15260 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
15261 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
15262 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
15263 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
15264 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
15267 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
15269 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
15270 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
15271 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
15272 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
15273 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
15274 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
15275 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
15276 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
15277 test reachability, so you won't publish.
15280 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
15281 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
15282 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
15283 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
15284 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
15286 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
15287 own server descriptor yet.
15290 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
15292 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
15293 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
15294 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
15295 make sure to test via one of these.
15296 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
15297 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
15298 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
15299 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
15300 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
15302 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
15303 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
15304 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
15307 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
15308 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
15309 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
15310 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
15311 directory authority.
15312 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
15313 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
15314 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
15315 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
15318 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
15319 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
15320 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
15322 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
15323 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
15324 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
15325 current guards when picking a new guard.
15326 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
15327 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
15328 when we had more than one pending.
15329 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
15330 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
15331 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
15332 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
15333 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
15334 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
15335 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
15336 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
15337 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
15338 debug the reachability problems better.
15340 o Log / documentation fixes:
15341 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
15342 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
15343 about protocol violations by others.
15344 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
15345 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
15346 about what happened to our old torrc.
15349 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
15351 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
15353 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
15354 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
15355 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
15356 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
15359 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
15361 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
15362 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
15363 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
15364 old ORPort and receive connections.
15365 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
15367 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
15368 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
15369 and network-statuses.
15370 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
15371 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
15372 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
15373 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
15375 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
15378 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
15379 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
15380 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
15383 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
15385 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
15386 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
15387 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
15388 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
15389 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
15392 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
15393 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
15395 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
15396 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
15397 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
15398 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
15399 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
15400 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
15401 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
15402 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
15403 rather than not sending anything back at all.
15404 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
15405 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
15406 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
15407 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
15408 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
15409 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
15410 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
15411 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
15412 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
15413 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
15414 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
15415 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
15416 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
15417 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
15418 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
15419 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
15420 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
15421 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
15422 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
15423 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
15424 default ulimit -n is 1024.
15427 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
15428 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
15429 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
15430 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
15433 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
15435 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
15436 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
15437 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
15438 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
15439 entry guards running these flawed versions.
15440 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
15441 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
15442 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
15443 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
15444 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
15447 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
15448 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
15450 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
15451 and it is confusing some users.
15452 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
15453 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
15454 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
15455 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
15456 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
15459 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
15461 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
15462 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
15463 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
15464 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
15465 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
15466 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
15467 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
15468 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
15469 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
15470 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
15471 dirport is set for now.
15473 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
15474 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
15475 unattached before we fail it?
15476 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
15477 at least this many seconds ago.
15478 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
15479 at least this many seconds ago.
15482 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
15483 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
15484 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
15485 or resolve-wait stream.
15486 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
15487 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
15488 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
15489 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
15490 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
15491 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
15492 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
15493 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
15495 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
15496 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
15497 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
15498 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
15499 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
15500 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
15501 given as hex digests.
15502 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
15503 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
15504 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
15505 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
15506 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
15507 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
15508 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
15509 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
15512 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15513 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
15514 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
15515 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
15516 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
15517 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
15518 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
15519 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
15520 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
15521 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
15522 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
15525 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
15526 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
15527 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
15528 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
15529 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
15530 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
15531 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
15534 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
15535 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
15536 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
15537 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
15538 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
15539 misreading their logs.
15540 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
15541 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
15542 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
15543 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
15544 valid router descriptors.
15545 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
15546 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
15547 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
15548 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
15549 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
15550 silently resetting it to its default.
15551 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
15553 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
15556 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
15557 use clean circuits.
15558 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
15559 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
15560 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
15561 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
15562 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
15564 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
15565 because older Tors do not understand it.
15566 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
15570 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
15571 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
15572 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
15573 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
15574 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
15575 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
15576 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
15577 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
15578 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
15579 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
15580 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
15582 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
15583 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
15584 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
15585 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
15587 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
15588 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
15591 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
15592 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
15593 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
15594 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
15595 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
15596 without getting overloaded.
15597 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
15599 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
15600 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
15601 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
15602 be forward-compatible.
15603 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
15604 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
15605 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
15606 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
15608 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
15609 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
15610 and OR conns to port 443.
15611 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
15612 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
15614 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
15615 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
15616 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
15617 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
15618 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
15619 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
15620 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
15623 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
15624 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15625 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
15626 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
15628 o Other important bugfixes:
15629 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
15630 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
15631 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
15632 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
15634 o Backported features:
15635 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
15636 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
15637 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
15638 without getting overloaded.
15639 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
15640 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
15641 503's whenever they feel busy.
15642 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
15643 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
15644 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
15645 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
15646 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
15649 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
15650 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
15651 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
15652 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
15653 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
15654 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
15655 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
15656 know if the crashes continue.
15657 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
15658 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
15659 seg faults in at least some cases.)
15660 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
15661 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
15662 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
15665 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
15666 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
15667 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
15668 try to be a bit more fair.
15669 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
15670 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
15671 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
15672 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
15673 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
15674 bug that let it go negative.
15675 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
15676 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
15677 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
15678 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
15679 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
15680 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
15681 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
15682 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
15683 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
15684 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
15685 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
15688 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
15690 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
15691 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
15692 service descriptors.
15695 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
15696 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
15697 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
15698 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
15700 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
15701 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
15702 versions *are* still recommended.
15703 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
15704 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
15705 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
15706 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
15707 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
15708 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
15709 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
15710 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
15712 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
15713 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
15714 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
15715 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
15716 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
15717 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
15718 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
15719 on it. Not used by clients yet.
15720 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
15721 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
15722 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
15723 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
15724 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
15725 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
15726 established a circuit.
15727 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
15728 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
15729 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
15730 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
15733 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
15734 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
15735 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
15736 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
15737 quickly enough. Oops.
15738 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
15740 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15741 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
15744 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
15745 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
15746 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
15747 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
15748 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
15749 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
15750 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
15751 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
15752 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
15753 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
15754 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
15755 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
15756 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
15757 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
15758 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
15759 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
15760 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
15763 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
15764 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
15765 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
15766 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
15767 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
15768 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
15769 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
15770 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
15771 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
15772 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
15773 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
15774 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
15775 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
15776 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
15777 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
15778 connections more reliable.
15781 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
15782 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
15783 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
15784 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
15785 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
15786 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
15787 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
15788 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
15789 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
15790 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
15791 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
15792 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
15793 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
15794 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
15798 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
15799 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
15800 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
15801 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
15802 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
15803 need to be uint64_t's.
15804 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
15805 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
15806 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
15808 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
15810 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
15811 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
15812 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
15813 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
15814 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
15815 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
15816 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
15818 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
15819 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
15820 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
15821 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
15822 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
15823 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
15824 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
15825 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
15826 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
15827 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
15828 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
15829 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
15830 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
15833 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
15834 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
15835 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
15836 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
15837 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
15838 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
15839 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
15841 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
15842 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
15843 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
15844 can answer v2 directory requests too.
15845 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
15846 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
15847 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
15848 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
15850 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
15851 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
15852 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
15853 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
15854 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
15855 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
15856 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
15857 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
15858 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
15859 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
15860 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
15861 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
15862 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
15863 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
15864 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
15866 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
15867 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
15870 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
15871 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15872 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
15873 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
15874 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
15875 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
15876 too -- so detect and avoid this.
15877 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
15879 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
15880 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
15881 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
15882 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
15883 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
15884 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
15885 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
15886 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
15887 rendezvous circuits.
15888 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
15890 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15891 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
15892 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
15893 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
15894 advertising it because of hibernation.
15895 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
15896 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
15897 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
15898 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
15899 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
15900 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
15901 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
15902 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
15903 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
15904 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
15905 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
15906 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
15907 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
15908 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
15911 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
15912 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15913 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
15914 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
15915 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
15916 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
15917 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
15918 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
15919 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
15920 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
15921 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
15922 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
15923 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
15924 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
15925 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
15926 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
15927 connections once a week.
15928 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
15929 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
15930 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
15931 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
15932 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
15933 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
15935 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
15936 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
15937 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
15939 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15940 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
15941 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
15942 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
15943 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
15944 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
15945 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
15946 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
15947 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
15948 firewall options forbid.
15949 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
15950 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
15951 can only proxy to certain destinations.
15952 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
15953 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
15954 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
15955 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
15956 aids some statistical attacks.
15957 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
15958 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
15959 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
15960 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
15962 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
15963 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
15964 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
15965 server descriptor sometimes.
15966 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
15967 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
15968 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
15969 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
15970 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
15971 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
15972 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
15973 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
15975 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
15976 case the controller wants to change that too.
15977 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
15978 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
15979 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
15980 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
15982 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
15983 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
15984 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
15986 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
15987 descriptors that they know they will reject.
15989 o Features and updates:
15990 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
15991 significantly faster.
15992 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
15993 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
15994 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
15995 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
15996 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
15997 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
15998 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
15999 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
16000 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
16001 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
16002 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
16003 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
16004 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
16005 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
16006 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
16007 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
16008 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
16009 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
16010 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
16011 as authoritative dirserver.
16012 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
16013 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
16014 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
16017 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
16018 o Usability improvements:
16019 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
16020 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
16022 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
16023 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
16024 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
16026 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
16027 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
16028 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
16029 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
16030 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
16031 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
16032 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
16033 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
16034 memory leaks better.
16035 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
16036 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
16037 their operators to pay close attention.
16038 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
16039 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
16041 o Performance improvements:
16042 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
16043 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
16044 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
16045 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
16046 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
16047 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
16048 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
16049 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
16050 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
16051 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
16052 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
16053 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
16054 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
16055 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
16056 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
16057 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
16058 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
16060 o Security improvements:
16061 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
16062 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
16063 fingerprint of server.
16064 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
16065 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
16066 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
16068 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16069 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
16070 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
16071 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
16072 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
16073 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
16074 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
16075 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
16076 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
16077 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
16078 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
16079 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
16080 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
16081 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
16082 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
16083 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
16084 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
16085 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
16086 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
16087 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
16088 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
16090 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
16091 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
16092 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
16094 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
16095 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
16097 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
16098 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
16099 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
16100 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
16101 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
16102 of the controller protocol.
16103 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
16104 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
16105 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
16108 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
16109 o New features (major):
16110 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
16111 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
16112 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
16113 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
16114 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
16115 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
16116 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
16117 we're using a default DirPort.
16118 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
16120 o New features (minor):
16121 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
16122 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
16123 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
16124 mirrors still cache and serve it).
16125 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
16126 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
16127 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
16128 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
16129 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
16130 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
16131 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
16132 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
16133 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
16134 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
16135 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
16136 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
16137 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
16138 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
16139 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
16141 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
16142 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
16143 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
16144 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
16145 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
16146 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
16147 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
16148 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
16150 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
16151 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
16152 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
16153 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
16154 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
16155 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
16156 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
16157 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
16158 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
16159 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
16161 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
16162 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
16163 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
16164 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
16165 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
16167 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
16168 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
16169 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
16171 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
16172 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
16174 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
16175 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
16176 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
16177 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
16178 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
16179 don't warn twice about the same name.
16180 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
16181 if we've not heard of the server.
16182 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
16183 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
16186 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
16187 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16188 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
16189 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
16190 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
16191 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
16192 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
16193 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
16194 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
16195 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
16196 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
16197 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
16198 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
16199 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
16200 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
16203 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
16204 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
16205 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
16206 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
16207 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
16209 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
16210 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
16211 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
16212 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
16213 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
16214 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
16218 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
16219 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
16220 nickname) is reachable by you.
16221 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
16224 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
16225 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
16226 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
16227 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
16228 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
16229 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
16230 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
16231 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
16232 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
16233 we fail to connect).
16234 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
16235 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
16236 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
16237 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
16239 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
16240 it was self-testing that told us so.
16243 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
16244 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
16245 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
16246 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
16247 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
16248 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
16249 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
16250 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
16251 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
16252 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
16253 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
16254 exit policy using him for any exits.
16255 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
16258 o New controller features/fixes:
16259 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
16260 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
16261 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
16262 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
16263 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
16264 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
16265 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
16266 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
16267 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
16269 o Start on the new directory design:
16270 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
16271 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
16273 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
16274 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
16275 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
16276 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
16278 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
16279 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
16280 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
16281 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
16282 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
16283 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
16284 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
16285 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
16288 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
16289 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
16290 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
16291 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
16292 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
16293 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
16294 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
16295 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
16296 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
16297 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
16299 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
16300 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
16301 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
16302 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
16303 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
16304 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
16305 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
16306 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
16307 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
16309 o Config option changes:
16310 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
16311 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
16312 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
16313 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
16314 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
16315 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
16317 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
16318 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
16319 people have started using them for spam too.
16320 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
16321 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
16322 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
16323 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
16324 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
16325 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
16326 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
16327 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
16328 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
16329 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
16330 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
16331 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
16332 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
16333 services faster on the service end.
16334 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
16335 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
16336 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
16337 it a fair shake next time we try.
16338 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
16339 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
16340 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
16341 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
16342 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
16343 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
16344 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
16345 able to discover them.
16346 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
16347 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
16348 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
16349 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
16350 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
16351 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
16352 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
16353 testing for reachability.
16354 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
16355 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
16357 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
16359 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
16360 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
16363 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
16364 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
16366 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16367 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
16368 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
16369 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
16372 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
16373 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16374 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
16376 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
16377 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
16380 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
16381 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
16384 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
16385 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
16386 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
16387 options, getinfo keys.
16390 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
16391 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16392 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
16393 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
16394 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
16395 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
16396 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
16398 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
16399 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
16403 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
16404 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
16405 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
16407 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
16409 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
16410 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
16411 circuit events and we go offline.
16412 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
16413 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
16414 you don't have enough intro points already.
16416 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
16417 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
16418 many bytes we've used in this time period.
16419 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
16420 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
16421 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
16422 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
16423 enabled by default yet.
16425 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
16426 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
16427 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
16428 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
16429 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
16432 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
16433 o New directory servers:
16434 - tor26 has changed IP address.
16436 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16437 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
16438 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
16439 pthreads libraries.
16440 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
16441 claims its dirport is 0.
16442 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
16443 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
16447 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
16448 o New directory servers:
16449 - tor26 has changed IP address.
16451 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
16452 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
16454 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
16455 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
16456 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
16457 ports that have changed.
16458 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
16460 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
16461 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
16462 Windows-style errno back.
16463 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
16465 want to make it an NT service.
16466 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
16467 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
16468 name, give the full name in our response.
16469 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
16470 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
16471 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
16472 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
16473 pthreads libraries.
16475 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
16476 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
16480 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
16481 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
16482 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
16483 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
16484 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
16487 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
16488 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16489 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
16490 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
16491 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
16492 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
16493 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
16494 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
16497 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
16499 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
16500 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
16501 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
16502 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
16503 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
16504 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
16506 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
16507 temporarily unreachable.
16508 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
16512 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
16513 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
16514 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
16515 our protocol works.
16516 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
16520 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
16521 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
16522 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
16523 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
16524 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
16528 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
16529 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
16530 libevent before 1.1a.
16533 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
16535 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
16536 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
16537 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
16538 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
16539 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
16541 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
16542 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
16543 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
16544 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
16545 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
16546 of CPU time plus memory.
16547 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
16548 normal web requests.
16549 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
16550 tor_lookup_hostname().
16551 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
16552 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
16553 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
16554 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
16555 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
16556 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
16558 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
16559 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
16560 HttpProxyAuthenticator
16561 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
16562 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
16563 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
16565 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
16566 the user asks you to.
16567 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
16568 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
16569 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
16570 their descriptors are being rejected.
16571 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
16575 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
16577 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
16578 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
16579 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
16581 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
16583 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
16585 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
16586 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
16587 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
16588 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
16589 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
16590 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
16591 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
16592 keys) from the exit server's process.
16593 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
16594 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
16595 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
16596 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
16597 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
16598 point at your Tor server.
16599 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
16600 you're not sending a socks reply back.
16603 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
16604 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
16605 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
16606 to make it easier to write controllers.
16609 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
16611 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
16612 installing on Tiger.
16613 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
16614 complain during installation.
16615 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
16616 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
16617 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
16618 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
16619 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
16620 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
16622 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
16623 something more reasonable when first installing.
16624 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
16627 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
16629 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
16630 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
16632 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
16633 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
16634 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
16635 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
16636 when using the default exit policy.
16637 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
16638 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
16639 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
16640 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
16641 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
16642 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
16643 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
16644 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
16645 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
16646 we fetched a new directory.
16647 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
16648 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
16651 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
16652 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
16653 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
16654 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
16655 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
16656 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
16657 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
16658 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
16660 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
16661 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
16662 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
16663 save memory on systems that need to fork.
16664 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
16665 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
16666 is valid without actually launching Tor.
16667 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
16668 rather than just rejecting it.
16671 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
16673 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
16674 we didn't like its cert.
16676 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
16677 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
16678 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
16679 on patch from Adam Langley.
16680 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
16681 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
16682 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
16683 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
16685 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
16686 directory every time you regenerate it.
16687 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
16688 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
16691 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
16692 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
16693 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
16694 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
16695 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
16698 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
16700 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
16701 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
16702 TLS errors better in other situations too.
16703 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
16704 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
16705 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
16706 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
16707 and don't log when you are.
16708 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
16709 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
16711 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
16712 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
16713 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
16714 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
16715 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
16718 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
16719 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
16720 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
16721 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
16722 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
16723 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
16724 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
16725 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
16726 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
16727 nickname+key are allowed.
16728 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
16729 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
16730 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
16731 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
16732 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
16733 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
16734 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
16735 have quite wrong clocks).
16736 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
16737 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
16738 - Efficiency improvements:
16739 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
16740 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
16741 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
16742 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
16743 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
16744 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
16745 lowercase and be done with it.
16746 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
16747 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
16748 to abandon partially built circuits.
16749 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
16750 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
16752 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
16754 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
16755 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
16756 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
16757 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
16759 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
16760 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
16762 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
16763 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
16764 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
16765 obeying the exit policy internally.
16766 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
16767 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
16769 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
16770 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
16771 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
16772 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
16774 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
16775 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
16776 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
16777 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
16778 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
16780 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
16781 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
16782 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
16783 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
16784 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
16785 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
16786 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
16787 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
16788 descriptors we just dropped.
16789 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
16790 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
16791 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
16792 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
16793 artificially capped at 500kB.
16796 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
16797 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
16798 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
16799 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
16800 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
16801 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
16802 busy for more than 100 seconds.
16805 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
16806 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
16807 - Fixes on reachability detection:
16808 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
16809 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
16810 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
16811 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
16812 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
16813 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
16814 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
16815 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
16816 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
16817 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
16818 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
16819 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
16820 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
16821 server not already connected to them.
16822 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
16823 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
16824 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
16826 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
16828 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
16829 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
16830 are in a different state than they actually are.
16831 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
16832 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
16833 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
16835 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
16836 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
16837 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
16839 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
16840 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
16841 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
16842 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
16843 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
16844 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
16845 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
16847 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
16848 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
16849 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
16850 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
16853 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
16854 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
16855 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
16856 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
16857 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
16858 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
16859 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
16860 creating actual system users.
16861 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
16862 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
16866 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
16868 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
16869 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
16870 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
16871 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
16872 hidden services better.
16873 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
16875 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
16876 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
16877 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
16878 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
16879 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
16880 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
16881 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
16882 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
16883 patch by Matt Edman).
16884 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
16885 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
16886 required exit node for certain sites.
16887 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
16888 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
16889 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
16890 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
16891 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
16892 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
16893 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
16894 rather than just "success" or "failure".
16895 - A more sane version numbering system. See
16896 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
16897 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
16898 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
16900 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
16901 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
16902 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
16903 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
16904 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
16905 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
16906 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
16908 o Robustness/stability fixes:
16909 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
16910 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
16911 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
16913 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
16914 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
16915 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
16917 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
16918 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
16919 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
16921 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
16922 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
16923 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
16924 that will want high uptime circuits.
16925 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
16926 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
16927 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
16928 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
16929 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
16930 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
16931 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
16932 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
16933 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
16934 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
16935 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
16936 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
16937 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
16938 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
16939 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
16940 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
16941 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
16942 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
16943 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
16944 when we try to launch one.
16945 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
16946 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
16947 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
16948 "ShutdownWaitLength".
16949 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
16950 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
16951 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
16952 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
16953 and to take errno into account where possible.
16956 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
16957 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
16958 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
16959 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
16960 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
16961 file more reasonable.
16962 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
16963 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
16964 addresses -- it won't.
16965 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
16966 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
16967 for google.com" problem.
16968 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
16969 so it's not just "unknown platform".
16970 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
16971 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
16972 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
16973 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
16975 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
16976 they could use instead.
16977 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
16978 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
16979 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
16980 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
16981 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
16982 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
16983 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
16984 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
16985 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
16987 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
16991 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
16992 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
16994 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
16995 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
16996 private-IP addresses.
16997 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
16998 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
17000 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
17001 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
17002 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
17003 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
17004 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
17005 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
17006 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
17008 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
17009 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
17010 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
17011 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
17012 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
17013 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
17014 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
17015 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
17017 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
17019 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
17020 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
17021 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
17022 whether the server is hibernating.
17025 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
17026 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
17027 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
17028 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
17029 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
17030 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
17031 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
17032 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
17033 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
17034 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
17035 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
17036 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
17037 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
17038 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
17039 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
17041 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
17042 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
17043 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
17044 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
17045 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
17046 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
17047 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
17048 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
17049 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
17050 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
17051 existing torrc files.
17052 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
17055 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
17056 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
17057 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
17058 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
17059 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
17060 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
17061 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
17062 the win32 SYSTEM account.
17063 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
17064 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
17065 file descriptors available.
17066 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
17067 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
17068 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
17071 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
17072 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
17073 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
17074 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
17076 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
17077 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
17078 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
17079 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
17080 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
17082 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
17083 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
17084 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
17085 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
17086 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
17087 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
17088 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
17089 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
17090 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
17091 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
17092 800kB/s of capacity.
17093 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
17096 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
17097 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
17098 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
17099 need as much processor time.
17100 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
17101 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
17102 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
17103 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
17104 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
17105 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
17106 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
17107 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
17108 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
17109 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
17110 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
17111 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
17113 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
17114 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
17115 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
17116 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
17117 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
17118 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
17119 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
17122 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
17123 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
17124 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
17126 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
17127 style address, then we'd crash.
17128 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
17129 a dirserver is broken.
17130 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
17132 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
17133 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
17134 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
17136 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
17137 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
17138 name out of the warning/assert messages.
17139 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
17140 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
17141 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
17143 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
17144 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
17145 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
17147 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
17149 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
17150 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
17151 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
17152 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
17153 values at once couldn't work.
17154 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
17155 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
17156 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
17157 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
17158 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
17159 they can handle any number of routers.
17160 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
17161 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
17162 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
17163 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
17164 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
17165 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
17166 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
17167 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
17168 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
17171 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
17172 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
17173 - Make hibernation actually work.
17174 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
17175 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
17176 don't use the stream status code.
17179 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
17181 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
17182 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
17184 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
17187 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
17188 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
17189 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
17190 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
17191 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
17192 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
17193 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
17194 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
17195 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
17196 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
17198 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17199 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
17200 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
17201 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
17202 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
17203 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
17204 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
17205 - Make unit tests work on win32.
17208 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
17209 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
17210 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
17212 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
17213 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
17214 than just chopping them off.
17215 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
17217 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17218 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
17219 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
17220 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
17221 right after sending the begin cell.
17222 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
17223 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
17224 exit nodes too. Oops.
17227 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
17228 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
17229 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
17230 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
17231 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
17232 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
17233 the user knows which one it's talking about.
17234 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
17235 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
17236 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
17239 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
17240 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17241 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
17242 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
17244 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
17246 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
17247 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
17248 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
17250 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
17251 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
17252 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
17253 Clip rather than rejecting.
17254 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
17255 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
17258 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
17259 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
17260 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
17261 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
17263 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
17266 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
17267 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17268 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
17269 win32 socket errors better.
17271 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
17272 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
17275 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
17276 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17277 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
17278 so we don't see those messages days later.
17280 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
17281 - Make tor-resolve work again.
17282 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
17283 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
17286 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
17287 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
17288 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
17289 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
17291 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
17292 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
17293 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
17296 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
17297 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17298 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
17299 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
17300 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
17301 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
17302 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
17303 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
17304 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
17306 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
17307 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
17308 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
17309 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
17311 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
17312 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
17315 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
17316 hibernation properties by
17317 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
17318 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
17319 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
17320 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
17321 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
17322 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
17323 get back to normal.)
17324 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
17326 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
17327 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
17328 to fill the last cell completely.
17329 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
17332 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
17333 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17334 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
17335 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
17336 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
17337 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
17338 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
17339 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
17340 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
17341 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
17342 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
17344 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
17345 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
17346 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
17347 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
17348 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
17349 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
17350 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
17351 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
17353 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
17354 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
17355 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
17356 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
17357 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
17358 have it on start-up.
17361 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
17362 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
17363 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
17364 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
17365 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
17366 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
17367 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
17368 configuration to torrc.
17369 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
17370 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
17371 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
17372 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
17373 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
17375 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
17376 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
17377 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
17378 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
17379 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
17380 log more informatively.
17381 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
17382 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
17383 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
17384 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
17385 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
17386 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
17387 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
17388 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
17389 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
17390 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
17391 from each other, to hinder linkability.
17394 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
17395 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
17396 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
17397 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
17398 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
17399 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
17400 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
17402 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
17403 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
17404 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
17405 they ran out of file descriptors.
17406 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
17407 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
17408 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
17409 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
17410 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
17411 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
17412 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
17414 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
17417 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
17418 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
17419 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
17420 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
17421 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
17422 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
17423 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
17424 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
17425 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
17426 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
17427 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
17428 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
17429 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
17430 with the control port.
17431 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
17432 use in authenticating to the control interface.
17433 - New log format in config:
17434 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
17435 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
17438 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
17439 from their dirserver.
17440 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
17442 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
17443 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
17444 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
17445 them act more like real nodes.
17446 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
17447 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
17449 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
17450 nickname to its identity key.
17451 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
17452 not on the command line.
17453 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
17454 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
17455 1024) file descriptors.
17457 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
17458 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
17460 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
17461 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
17462 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
17465 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
17466 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
17467 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
17468 exit policy, not reject *:*.
17469 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
17470 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
17471 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
17472 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
17473 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
17474 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
17475 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
17478 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
17479 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
17480 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
17481 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
17482 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
17483 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
17484 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
17487 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
17488 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17489 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
17490 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
17491 the ones we find in directories.)
17492 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
17494 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
17495 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
17497 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
17498 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
17499 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
17501 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
17502 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
17503 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
17504 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
17506 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
17507 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
17508 any more exit policy lines.
17511 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
17512 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
17513 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
17514 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
17515 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
17516 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
17517 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
17518 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
17519 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
17520 will be able to get a directory.
17521 - Http proxy support
17522 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
17523 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
17524 be routed through this host.
17525 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
17526 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
17527 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
17528 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
17531 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
17533 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
17534 clients/servers with an open dirport.
17535 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
17536 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
17537 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
17538 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
17539 intermittent connections.
17540 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
17541 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
17543 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
17544 in reporting stats locally.
17545 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
17546 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
17547 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
17550 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
17552 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
17553 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
17556 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
17558 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
17559 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
17560 if you don't want it open.
17561 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
17562 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
17563 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
17564 intermittent connections.
17565 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
17567 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
17568 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
17569 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
17570 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
17571 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
17572 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
17573 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
17574 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
17575 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
17576 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
17577 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
17578 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
17579 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
17580 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
17581 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
17582 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
17585 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
17586 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
17587 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
17588 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
17589 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
17591 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
17593 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
17594 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
17595 specified in HTTP 1.0.
17596 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
17597 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
17598 than once per minute.
17599 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
17600 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
17603 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
17604 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
17607 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
17608 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
17609 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
17610 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
17613 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
17614 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
17616 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
17617 don't put it into the client dns cache.
17618 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
17619 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
17620 until we get our next directory.
17622 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
17623 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
17624 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
17625 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
17626 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
17627 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
17628 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
17629 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
17630 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
17631 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
17632 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
17634 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
17636 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
17637 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
17639 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
17640 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
17641 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
17643 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
17645 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
17646 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
17647 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
17648 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
17649 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
17650 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
17651 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
17652 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
17655 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
17656 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
17657 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
17658 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
17661 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
17662 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
17663 ask them to resolve the host "".
17666 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
17667 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
17668 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
17669 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
17670 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
17671 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
17672 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
17673 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
17674 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
17675 clients don't use this yet.)
17676 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
17677 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
17678 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
17679 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
17680 for pointing out this bug.)
17681 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
17682 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
17683 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
17684 kazaa, gnutella ports.
17685 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
17687 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
17688 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
17689 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
17690 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
17691 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
17692 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
17693 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
17694 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
17695 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
17696 wolf unpredictably.
17697 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
17698 that's still handshaking.
17699 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
17700 you'll choose it for your path.
17701 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
17702 end relay cell, etc.
17703 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
17704 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
17705 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
17708 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
17709 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
17711 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
17712 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
17713 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
17714 list to decide who's running or verified.
17715 - Bugfixes and features:
17716 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
17717 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
17718 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
17719 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
17720 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
17721 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
17723 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
17724 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
17725 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
17726 know you might want to get it verified.
17727 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
17730 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
17732 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
17733 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
17734 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
17735 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
17737 o Protocol changes:
17738 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
17739 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
17740 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
17741 hadn't heard of before.
17744 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
17745 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
17746 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
17747 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
17748 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
17749 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
17750 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
17751 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
17752 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
17753 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
17754 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
17755 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
17756 - Directory caching.
17757 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
17758 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
17759 directory they've pulled down.
17760 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
17761 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
17762 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
17763 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
17764 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
17765 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
17766 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
17768 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
17769 This isn't used yet.
17770 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
17771 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
17772 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
17773 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
17774 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
17775 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
17776 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
17777 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
17778 - File and name management:
17779 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
17780 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
17782 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
17783 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
17784 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
17785 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
17786 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
17787 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
17788 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
17790 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
17791 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
17792 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
17793 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
17794 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
17796 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
17797 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
17798 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
17799 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
17800 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
17801 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
17802 - New docs in the tarball:
17804 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
17807 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
17808 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
17809 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
17812 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
17813 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
17814 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
17817 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
17818 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
17821 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
17822 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
17823 - Make it build on Win32 again.
17824 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
17825 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
17829 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
17831 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
17832 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
17833 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
17834 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
17835 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
17836 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
17837 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
17838 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
17839 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
17840 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
17843 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
17846 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
17847 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
17848 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
17849 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
17851 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
17852 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
17853 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
17855 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
17856 hidden service per 15-minute period.
17857 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
17858 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
17859 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
17860 o Fixes for security bugs:
17861 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
17862 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
17863 a trusted dirserver.
17865 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
17866 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
17867 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
17868 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
17869 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
17870 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
17871 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
17872 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
17873 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
17874 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
17876 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
17877 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
17878 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
17879 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
17881 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
17882 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
17883 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
17884 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
17885 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
17886 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
17887 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
17888 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
17889 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
17890 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
17891 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
17892 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
17893 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
17896 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
17897 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
17898 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
17899 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
17902 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
17903 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
17904 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
17905 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
17906 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
17907 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
17908 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
17912 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
17913 [version bump only]
17916 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
17917 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
17918 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
17919 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
17920 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
17922 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
17925 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
17926 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
17927 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
17928 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
17929 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
17930 o Better debugging for tls errors
17931 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
17932 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
17933 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
17934 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
17935 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
17936 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
17937 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
17938 o win32's close can't close a socket.
17941 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
17942 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
17943 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
17944 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
17945 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
17946 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
17947 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
17948 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
17949 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
17950 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
17951 just close the circ.
17952 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
17953 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
17954 (this was quite rare).
17957 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
17958 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
17959 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
17960 if you decrypted them correctly.
17961 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
17962 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
17963 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
17966 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
17967 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
17968 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
17969 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
17970 a second one and it works.
17971 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
17972 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
17973 alice would just have to wait to time out.
17974 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
17975 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
17976 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
17977 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
17978 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
17979 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
17980 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
17981 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
17982 i'd still like to find the bug though.
17983 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
17985 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
17989 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
17990 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
17991 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
17992 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
17993 he retries a couple of times
17994 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
17995 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
17996 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
17997 too long (they were sticking around forever).
17998 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
18002 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
18003 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
18004 - make hup work again
18005 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
18006 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
18007 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
18008 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
18009 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
18010 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
18012 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
18013 o changes from 0.0.5:
18014 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
18015 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
18016 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
18017 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
18018 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
18020 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
18021 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
18022 in-memory directories too
18025 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
18026 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
18029 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
18031 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
18032 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
18033 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
18034 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
18037 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
18038 [version bump only]
18041 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
18042 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
18044 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
18045 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
18046 but that aren't warnings
18049 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
18050 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
18051 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
18052 the dns farm to do it.
18053 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
18054 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
18056 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
18057 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
18058 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
18061 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
18062 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
18063 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
18064 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
18065 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
18066 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
18067 expect it to have a nickname.
18068 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
18069 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
18072 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
18073 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
18077 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
18078 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
18079 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
18080 - include missing header fcntl.h
18081 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
18082 - deal with hardware word alignment
18083 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
18084 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
18085 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
18086 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
18087 by kill -USR1 currently.
18088 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
18089 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
18090 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
18093 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
18094 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
18095 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
18098 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
18100 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
18101 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
18102 - And fix a few endian issues.
18105 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
18107 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
18108 try that circuit again: try a new one.
18109 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
18110 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
18111 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
18112 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
18113 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
18114 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
18116 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
18117 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
18118 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
18120 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
18122 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
18123 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
18124 side isn't reading right then.
18125 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
18126 RecommendedVersions
18127 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
18128 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
18129 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
18132 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
18134 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
18135 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
18138 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
18142 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
18144 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
18145 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
18146 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
18147 connection is finished.
18148 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
18149 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
18150 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
18151 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
18152 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
18153 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
18154 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
18155 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
18156 rather than warn and continue.
18157 - Make --version work
18158 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
18161 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
18163 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
18164 knows it's working.
18165 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
18166 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
18168 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
18169 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
18170 so you can collect coredumps there.
18172 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
18173 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
18174 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
18175 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
18176 dns cache actually gets populated.
18177 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
18178 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
18179 end cell down it first.
18180 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
18181 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
18184 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
18186 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
18187 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
18189 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
18190 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
18191 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
18192 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
18193 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
18194 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
18196 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
18198 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
18199 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
18200 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
18201 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
18202 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
18203 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
18205 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
18206 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
18209 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
18211 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
18212 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
18213 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
18214 tor. It even has a man page.
18215 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
18216 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
18217 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
18218 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
18220 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
18222 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
18225 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
18227 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
18228 it, apt-getters. :)
18229 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
18230 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
18231 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
18232 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
18233 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
18234 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
18235 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
18236 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
18237 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
18238 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
18239 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
18241 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
18242 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
18245 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
18247 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
18248 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
18251 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
18253 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
18254 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
18255 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
18256 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
18257 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
18258 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
18259 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
18260 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
18261 logfile so you know it's working.
18262 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
18263 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
18266 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
18268 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
18269 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
18270 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
18273 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
18275 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
18276 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
18277 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
18280 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
18281 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
18282 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
18284 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
18285 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
18287 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
18288 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
18289 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
18291 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
18292 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
18296 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
18298 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
18299 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
18300 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
18303 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
18304 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
18305 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
18306 - Add port ranges to exit policies
18307 - Add a conservative default exit policy
18308 - Warn if you're running tor as root
18309 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
18310 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
18311 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
18312 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
18314 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
18317 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
18318 o Robustness and bugfixes:
18319 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
18320 really screw things up.
18321 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
18323 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
18324 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
18326 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
18327 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
18328 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
18329 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
18330 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
18331 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
18334 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
18337 - Change default loglevel to warn.
18338 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
18339 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
18341 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
18344 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
18345 o Robustness and bugfixes:
18346 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
18347 - to get ownership/permissions right
18348 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
18349 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
18350 pull down a directory again
18351 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
18352 causing server crashes
18353 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
18354 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
18355 - exit if bind() fails
18356 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
18357 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
18358 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
18359 - fix minor bias in PRNG
18360 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
18363 - Wrote the design document (woo)
18365 o Circuit building and exit policies:
18366 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
18368 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
18369 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
18370 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
18371 exists, rather than failing
18372 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
18373 which AP connections are standing by
18374 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
18375 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
18376 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
18378 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
18379 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
18382 - APPort is now called SocksPort
18383 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
18385 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
18386 hardcoded (for dirservers)
18387 - Reloads config on HUP
18388 - Usage info on -h or --help
18389 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
18392 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
18393 o General stability:
18394 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
18395 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
18396 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
18397 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
18398 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
18399 to take down the network when I approve a new router
18400 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
18403 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
18404 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
18406 o Autoconf improvements:
18407 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
18408 - Make install now works
18409 - create var/lib/tor on make install
18410 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
18411 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
18413 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
18414 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
18415 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
18416 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup