1 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
2 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
3 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
4 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
5 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
6 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
7 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
8 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
10 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
11 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
12 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
13 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
14 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
15 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
16 gets much closer to ipv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
17 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
18 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
19 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
20 reachability testing. This new release introduces two new design
21 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
22 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
23 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
24 circuits for a channel. It also includes many stability, security,
28 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
29 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
30 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
31 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
34 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
35 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
36 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
37 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
38 them to solve bug 6033.)
41 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
42 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
43 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
44 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
45 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
46 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
47 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
48 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
50 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
51 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
52 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
53 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
55 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
56 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
57 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
58 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
59 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
60 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
61 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
62 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
63 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
64 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
65 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
66 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
68 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
69 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
70 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
71 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
72 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
73 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
74 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
75 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
76 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
77 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
78 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
79 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
80 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
81 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
82 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
83 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
86 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
87 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
88 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
89 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
90 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
91 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
92 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
93 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
94 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
95 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
96 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
97 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
98 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
99 Implements part of proposal 222.
101 o Minor features (other):
102 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
103 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
104 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
105 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
106 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
107 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
108 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
109 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
110 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
112 o Documentation fixes:
113 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
114 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
115 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
116 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
117 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
118 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
121 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
122 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
123 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
124 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
125 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
126 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
127 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
130 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
131 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
132 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
133 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
134 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
135 Implements ticket 9574.
138 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
139 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
140 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
141 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
142 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
143 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
144 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
145 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
146 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
147 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
148 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
149 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
153 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
154 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
155 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
156 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
158 o Minor fixes (config options):
159 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
160 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
161 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
162 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
163 message is logged at notice, not at info.
164 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
165 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
166 or we just won't work.)
169 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
170 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
171 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
172 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
175 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
176 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
177 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
180 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
181 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
182 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
183 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
184 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
185 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
186 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
188 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
189 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
190 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
191 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
194 - Fix an invalid memory read that occured when a pluggable
195 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
196 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
197 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
198 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
199 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
200 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
201 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
202 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
203 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
204 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
205 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
206 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
209 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
212 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
213 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
214 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
215 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
218 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
219 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
220 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
223 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
224 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
225 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
228 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
229 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
230 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
233 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
234 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
235 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
236 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
237 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
238 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
240 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
241 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
242 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
243 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
244 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
245 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
247 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
248 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
249 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
252 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
253 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
254 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
255 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
256 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
258 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
259 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
260 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
261 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
262 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
263 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
264 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
266 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
267 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
268 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
270 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
271 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
275 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
276 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
277 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
279 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
280 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
281 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
282 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
283 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
284 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
286 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
287 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
288 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
289 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
290 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
291 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
292 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
295 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
296 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
297 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
298 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
299 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
300 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
301 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
302 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
303 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
304 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
305 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
306 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
307 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
308 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
310 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
311 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
312 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
313 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
316 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
317 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
318 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
319 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
320 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
321 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
323 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
324 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
328 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
329 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
330 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
331 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
332 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
333 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
334 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
336 o Removed documentation:
337 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
338 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
340 o Code simplification and refactoring:
341 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
342 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
343 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
346 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
347 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
348 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
349 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
350 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
351 variety of other issues.
354 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
355 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
356 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
357 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
358 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
359 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
360 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
361 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
363 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
364 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
365 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
367 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
368 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
369 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
370 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
371 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
372 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
373 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
375 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
376 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
377 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
378 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
379 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
380 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
381 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
382 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
383 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
384 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
385 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
386 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
387 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
388 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
389 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
390 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
391 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
392 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
393 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
394 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
395 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
397 o Major bugfixes (other):
398 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
399 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
400 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
401 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
404 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
405 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
406 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
407 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
409 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
410 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
412 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
414 o Minor features (build):
415 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
416 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
418 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
419 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
421 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
422 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
423 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
426 o Minor bugfixes (build):
427 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
428 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
429 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
430 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
431 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
432 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
433 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
434 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
435 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
436 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
437 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
438 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
439 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
442 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
443 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
444 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
445 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
446 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
447 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
448 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
449 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
450 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
451 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
452 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy."
453 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
454 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
455 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
456 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
458 o Minor bugfixes (other):
459 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
460 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
461 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
462 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
463 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
464 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
465 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
466 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
467 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
468 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
469 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
470 Should help resolve bug 8235.
471 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
472 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
473 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
474 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
476 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
477 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
478 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
479 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
480 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
481 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
482 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
483 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
486 o Minor bugfixes (config):
487 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
488 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
490 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
491 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
492 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
493 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
494 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
495 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
496 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
497 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
498 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
499 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
500 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
501 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
502 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
503 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
504 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
507 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
508 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
509 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
510 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
511 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
512 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
513 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
514 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
516 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
517 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
518 or at least make it more diagnosable.
519 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
520 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
521 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
522 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
524 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
525 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
526 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
527 the relaxed timeout log message.
528 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
529 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
530 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
532 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
533 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
534 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
535 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
536 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
537 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
538 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
541 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
542 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
543 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
544 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
545 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
546 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
547 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
548 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
549 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
550 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
551 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
552 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
553 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
554 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
555 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
556 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
557 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
559 o Documentation fixes:
560 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
561 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
562 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
563 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
564 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
565 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
566 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
567 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
570 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
571 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
575 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
576 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
577 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
578 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
580 o Major features (directory authorities):
581 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
582 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
583 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
584 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
585 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
586 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
587 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
588 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
589 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
590 Implements ticket 8151.
592 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
593 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
594 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
595 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
596 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
598 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
599 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
600 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
601 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
602 whether authentication information is present, causing all
603 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
604 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
606 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
607 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
608 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
610 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
611 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
612 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
613 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
614 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
615 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
616 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
617 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
618 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
619 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
620 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
621 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
622 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
623 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
624 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
626 o Minor features (portability):
627 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
628 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
629 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
630 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
631 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
632 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
633 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
634 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
636 o Minor features (other):
637 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
638 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
639 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
640 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
641 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
642 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
643 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
644 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
646 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
648 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
649 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
650 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
651 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
652 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
653 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
654 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
655 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
656 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
657 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
659 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
660 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
661 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
662 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
664 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
665 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
666 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
667 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
668 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
669 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
670 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
672 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
673 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
674 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
675 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
676 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
678 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
679 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
680 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
681 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
683 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
684 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
685 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
688 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
689 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
690 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
691 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
693 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
694 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
695 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
696 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
698 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
699 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
700 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
702 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
703 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
704 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
705 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
707 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
708 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
709 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
710 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
711 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
712 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
713 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
715 o Code simplification and refactoring:
716 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
720 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
721 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
722 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
723 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
724 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
727 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
728 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
729 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
730 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
732 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
733 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
734 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
738 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
739 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
740 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
741 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
742 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
743 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
744 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
745 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
746 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
747 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
748 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
749 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
750 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
753 o Major features (relay):
754 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
755 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
756 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
757 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
758 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
759 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
760 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
762 o Major features (portability):
763 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
764 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
765 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
766 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
767 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
770 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
771 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
772 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
773 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
774 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
775 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
777 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
778 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
779 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
780 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
781 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
782 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
783 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
784 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
786 o Minor features (path selection):
787 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
788 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
789 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
790 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
791 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
792 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
793 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
794 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
795 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
796 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
797 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
798 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
799 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
800 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
801 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
802 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
803 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
804 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
805 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
807 o Minor features (log messages):
808 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
809 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
810 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
811 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
814 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
815 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
816 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
817 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
818 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
819 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
820 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
821 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
822 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
823 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
824 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
825 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
827 o Build improvements:
828 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
829 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
830 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
831 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
832 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
833 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
834 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
835 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
836 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
837 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
838 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
839 than to perform erroneously.
842 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
843 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
844 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
846 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
847 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
848 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
851 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
852 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
854 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
855 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
859 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
860 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
864 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
865 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
866 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
870 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
871 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
872 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
873 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
876 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
877 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
878 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
879 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
880 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
881 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
882 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
883 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
884 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
885 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
886 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
889 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
890 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
891 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
892 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
893 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
894 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
895 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
896 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
897 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
898 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
899 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
901 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
902 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
903 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
905 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
906 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
907 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
909 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
911 o Major features (better link encryption):
912 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
913 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
914 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
915 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
916 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
917 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
920 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
921 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
922 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
923 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
924 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
925 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
926 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
928 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
929 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
930 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
931 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
933 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
936 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
937 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
938 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
941 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
942 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
943 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
944 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
945 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
946 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
947 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
948 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
949 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
951 o Minor features (testing):
952 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
953 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
954 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
956 o Minor features (path bias detection):
957 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
958 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
959 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
960 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
961 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
962 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
963 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
964 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
965 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
966 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
967 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
968 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
969 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
970 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
971 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
972 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
973 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
974 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
975 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
976 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
977 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
978 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
979 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
980 detection capability loss.
982 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
983 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
984 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
985 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
986 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
987 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
988 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
989 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
992 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
993 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
994 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
995 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
996 and the different handshakes it supports.
997 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
998 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
999 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
1000 any encoding is overkill.
1003 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
1004 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
1005 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
1006 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
1007 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
1008 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
1009 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
1010 and fixes a variety of other issues.
1012 o Major features (client resilience):
1013 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
1014 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
1015 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
1016 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
1017 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
1018 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
1019 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
1020 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
1021 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
1022 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
1023 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
1024 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
1025 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
1026 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
1027 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
1029 o Major features (IPv6):
1030 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
1031 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
1032 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
1033 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
1034 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
1035 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
1036 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
1037 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
1039 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
1040 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
1042 o Major features (geoip database):
1043 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
1044 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
1045 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
1046 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
1047 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
1048 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
1049 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
1050 Country database, as modified above.
1052 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
1053 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
1054 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
1055 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
1056 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
1057 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
1058 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
1059 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
1060 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
1061 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
1062 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
1063 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
1064 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
1065 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
1066 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
1067 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
1068 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
1071 o Major bugfixes (other):
1072 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
1073 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
1074 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
1075 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
1076 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
1077 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
1078 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
1079 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
1081 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
1082 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
1085 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
1086 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
1087 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
1088 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
1089 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
1090 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
1091 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
1092 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
1094 o Minor features (IPv6):
1095 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
1096 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
1097 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
1098 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
1099 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
1100 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
1101 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
1102 connect to the wrong addresses.
1103 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
1104 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
1105 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
1106 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
1110 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
1111 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
1112 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
1114 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
1115 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
1116 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
1118 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
1119 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
1120 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
1123 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
1124 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
1126 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1127 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
1128 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
1129 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
1130 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
1133 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
1134 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
1135 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
1136 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
1137 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
1138 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
1139 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
1140 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
1142 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
1143 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
1144 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
1145 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
1146 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
1147 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
1148 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
1149 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
1150 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
1151 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
1152 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
1155 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
1156 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
1157 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
1158 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
1159 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
1160 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
1161 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
1162 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
1163 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
1164 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
1167 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
1168 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
1172 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
1173 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
1174 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
1175 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
1178 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
1179 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
1181 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
1182 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
1183 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
1184 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
1185 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
1186 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
1187 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
1188 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
1189 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
1190 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
1193 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
1195 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
1196 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
1197 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
1198 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
1199 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
1202 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
1203 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
1204 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1205 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
1206 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
1208 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
1209 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
1210 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
1211 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
1212 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
1213 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
1214 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
1216 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
1217 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1218 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
1219 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
1220 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
1221 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1222 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
1223 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1225 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1226 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
1227 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
1228 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
1229 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
1230 present the same extensions.)
1233 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
1234 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
1235 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
1236 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
1237 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
1239 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
1240 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
1241 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
1242 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
1244 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
1245 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
1246 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
1247 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1249 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
1250 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
1251 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
1252 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
1253 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
1254 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
1255 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
1256 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
1257 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1259 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
1260 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
1261 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
1262 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
1263 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1266 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
1267 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
1268 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
1270 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1271 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
1273 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
1274 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
1278 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
1279 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
1280 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
1281 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
1284 o Major bugfixes (security):
1285 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
1286 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
1287 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
1289 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
1290 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
1291 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
1292 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1295 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
1296 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
1297 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
1298 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
1299 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
1300 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
1301 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
1302 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1305 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
1306 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
1307 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
1308 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1311 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
1312 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
1313 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
1314 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
1315 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
1316 scheduling algorithms.
1318 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
1319 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
1320 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
1322 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
1323 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
1324 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
1325 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
1326 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
1327 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
1328 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
1329 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
1330 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
1331 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
1332 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
1334 o Internal abstraction features:
1335 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
1336 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
1337 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
1338 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
1339 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
1340 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
1341 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
1342 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
1343 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
1344 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
1345 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
1346 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
1347 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
1348 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
1349 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
1350 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
1351 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
1353 o Required libraries:
1354 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
1355 strongly recommended.
1358 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
1359 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
1360 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
1361 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
1362 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
1363 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
1364 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
1365 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
1366 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
1368 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
1369 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
1370 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
1371 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
1372 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
1373 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
1374 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
1375 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1376 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
1377 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
1378 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
1379 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
1380 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
1381 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
1382 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
1385 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
1386 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
1387 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
1388 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
1389 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
1390 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
1391 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
1392 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
1393 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
1394 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
1395 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
1396 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
1397 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
1398 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
1399 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1400 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
1401 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
1402 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
1403 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
1405 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
1406 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
1407 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
1408 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
1409 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
1410 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
1411 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
1414 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
1415 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
1416 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
1417 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
1419 o New directory authorities:
1420 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
1421 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
1423 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
1424 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
1425 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
1426 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
1427 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
1428 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
1429 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
1430 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
1431 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
1432 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
1433 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
1436 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
1437 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
1438 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
1440 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
1441 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
1442 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
1443 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1444 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
1445 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
1446 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
1447 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
1448 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
1450 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
1451 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
1452 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
1453 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
1454 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
1455 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
1456 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
1457 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
1458 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
1459 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
1460 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
1461 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
1462 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
1463 - Avoid undefined behaviour when parsing the list of supported
1464 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
1465 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
1466 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
1467 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
1469 o Documentation fixes:
1470 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
1473 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
1474 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
1475 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
1476 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
1479 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
1480 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
1481 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1484 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
1485 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
1486 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
1487 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
1488 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
1489 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
1490 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
1491 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
1493 o Security features:
1494 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
1495 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
1496 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
1497 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
1498 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
1499 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
1500 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
1501 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
1502 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
1506 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
1507 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
1508 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
1511 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
1512 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
1513 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
1514 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
1515 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1516 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
1517 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
1518 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
1519 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
1520 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
1521 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
1522 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
1523 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
1524 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
1526 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
1527 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1528 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
1529 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
1530 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1532 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
1533 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
1534 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
1535 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1536 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
1537 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
1538 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1539 - Avoid undefined behaviour when parsing the list of supported
1540 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
1541 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
1542 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
1543 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
1544 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
1545 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1546 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
1547 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
1548 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
1549 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
1550 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
1551 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
1553 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1554 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
1555 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
1556 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
1557 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
1558 testable, and a little less fragile too.
1559 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
1560 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
1562 o Documentation fixes:
1563 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
1564 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
1568 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
1569 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
1573 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
1574 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
1575 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1578 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
1579 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
1583 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
1584 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
1588 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
1589 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
1590 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1591 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
1592 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
1593 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
1594 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
1598 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
1599 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
1600 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
1601 log messages less noisy.
1604 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
1605 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
1609 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
1610 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
1611 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
1612 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
1613 last time we raised it).
1616 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
1617 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
1619 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
1620 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
1621 part of ticket 6736.
1622 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
1623 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
1624 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
1628 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
1629 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
1630 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
1631 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
1632 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
1634 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
1635 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1636 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
1637 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
1638 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1639 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
1640 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
1641 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1642 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
1643 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1644 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
1645 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1648 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
1649 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
1650 bunch of compatibility code.
1653 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
1654 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
1655 the ORPort and the DirPort.
1658 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
1659 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
1660 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
1661 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
1663 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
1664 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
1665 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
1667 o Major features (bridges):
1668 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
1669 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
1670 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
1673 o Major features (IPv6):
1674 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
1675 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
1676 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
1677 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
1678 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
1679 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
1680 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
1681 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
1682 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
1684 o Major features (build):
1685 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
1686 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
1687 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
1688 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
1689 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
1690 fixes by Jim Meyering.
1691 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
1692 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
1693 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
1695 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
1696 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
1697 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
1698 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in end_service_load_keys().
1699 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
1700 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
1701 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
1702 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
1703 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
1704 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
1705 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
1707 o Minor features (streamlining);
1708 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
1709 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
1711 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
1712 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
1713 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
1714 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
1715 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
1716 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1718 o Minor features (controller):
1719 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
1721 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
1722 Implements ticket 4971.
1724 o Minor features (IPv6):
1725 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
1726 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
1727 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
1728 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
1729 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
1731 o Minor features (log messages):
1732 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
1733 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
1734 Resolves ticket 6758.
1735 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
1736 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
1737 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
1738 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1739 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
1740 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
1741 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
1743 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
1744 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
1745 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
1746 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
1747 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
1750 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1751 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
1752 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
1753 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
1754 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
1756 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
1757 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
1758 Implements ticket 5529.
1759 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
1760 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
1761 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
1762 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
1763 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
1764 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
1765 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
1766 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
1767 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
1768 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
1771 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
1772 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
1773 from a source distribution.)
1776 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
1777 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
1778 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
1779 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
1780 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
1781 and cleans up other smaller issues.
1783 o Major bugfixes (security):
1784 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
1785 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
1786 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
1787 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
1788 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
1789 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
1790 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
1791 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
1792 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
1793 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
1794 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
1795 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
1796 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
1797 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
1798 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
1799 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
1803 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
1804 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
1805 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
1806 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1807 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
1808 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
1809 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
1810 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
1811 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
1812 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
1815 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
1816 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
1817 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
1818 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
1819 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1820 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
1821 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
1822 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
1823 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
1824 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
1825 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
1827 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
1828 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
1829 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
1831 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
1832 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
1833 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
1834 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
1835 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
1836 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
1837 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
1838 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
1839 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1840 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
1841 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
1842 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
1843 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
1844 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
1847 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
1848 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
1849 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
1850 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
1851 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1852 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
1853 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
1854 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
1855 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
1856 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
1857 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
1858 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
1859 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
1860 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
1861 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
1864 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
1865 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
1866 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
1867 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
1868 Resolves ticket 6732.
1871 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
1872 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
1873 attack that could in theory leak path information.
1876 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
1877 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
1878 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1879 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
1880 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
1881 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
1882 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
1883 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
1884 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
1885 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
1886 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
1887 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
1888 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
1889 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
1892 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
1893 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
1894 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
1895 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
1898 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
1899 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
1900 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1901 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
1902 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
1903 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1904 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
1905 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
1906 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
1907 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
1908 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
1909 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
1910 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
1911 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
1912 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
1913 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
1914 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
1917 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
1918 a little more useful.
1919 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
1920 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1921 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
1922 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
1923 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
1924 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
1925 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
1928 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
1929 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1930 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
1931 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1932 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
1933 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
1937 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
1938 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
1939 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
1940 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
1941 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
1944 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
1945 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
1946 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
1949 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
1951 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
1953 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1954 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
1955 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
1956 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
1957 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
1960 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
1961 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
1962 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
1963 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
1964 since the beginning of Tor.
1967 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
1968 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
1969 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
1970 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
1971 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
1972 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
1973 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
1974 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
1975 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
1976 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
1979 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
1980 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
1983 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
1984 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
1985 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
1986 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
1989 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
1990 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1991 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
1992 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
1993 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
1994 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
1996 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
1997 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
1998 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
1999 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
2000 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
2001 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
2002 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2003 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
2004 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
2005 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
2006 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
2007 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
2008 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
2009 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
2010 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
2011 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
2012 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2013 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
2014 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
2016 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
2017 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
2018 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
2020 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
2021 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2022 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
2023 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
2025 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
2026 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2027 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
2028 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2029 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
2030 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
2031 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2032 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
2033 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
2034 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
2035 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
2036 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
2037 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
2038 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
2039 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
2040 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
2043 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
2044 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
2045 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
2046 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
2047 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
2050 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
2051 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
2052 options. Closes bug 4748.
2055 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
2056 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
2057 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
2058 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
2059 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
2063 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
2064 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
2066 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
2067 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
2068 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
2069 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
2070 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
2071 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
2072 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
2073 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
2074 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
2077 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
2078 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
2079 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
2080 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
2081 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
2082 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
2083 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
2084 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
2087 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
2088 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
2089 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
2090 case for flushing marked connections.
2091 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
2092 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
2093 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
2094 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
2095 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
2096 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
2097 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2098 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
2099 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2100 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
2101 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
2102 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
2103 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
2104 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
2105 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
2106 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
2107 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
2108 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
2109 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
2110 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
2111 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
2112 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
2113 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
2114 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
2115 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
2117 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
2118 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
2119 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
2123 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
2124 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
2125 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
2126 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
2127 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
2128 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
2129 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
2130 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
2131 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
2132 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
2133 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
2134 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
2135 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
2136 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
2137 Addresses ticket 5458.
2138 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2140 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2141 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
2142 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
2145 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
2146 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
2147 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
2151 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
2152 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
2153 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
2154 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
2155 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
2156 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
2157 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2158 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
2159 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
2160 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
2161 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2164 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
2165 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
2168 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
2169 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
2172 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
2173 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
2174 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
2175 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
2176 that get us closer to a release candidate.
2178 o Major bugfixes (general):
2179 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
2180 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
2181 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
2182 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
2183 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
2184 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
2185 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2186 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
2187 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
2189 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
2190 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
2191 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
2192 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
2195 o Major bugfixes (clients):
2196 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
2197 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
2198 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
2199 which introduced predicted ports.
2200 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
2201 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
2202 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
2203 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2204 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
2205 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
2206 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
2207 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
2208 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
2209 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
2210 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
2211 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
2212 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
2214 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
2215 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
2216 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
2217 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
2218 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
2219 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
2220 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
2221 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
2222 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
2223 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
2224 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
2228 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
2229 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
2230 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
2231 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
2232 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
2233 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
2234 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
2235 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
2236 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
2237 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
2238 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
2239 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
2240 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
2241 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
2243 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
2244 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
2245 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
2246 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
2247 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
2248 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
2249 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
2250 sure. Closes bug 5139.
2251 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
2252 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
2253 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
2254 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
2255 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
2256 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
2257 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2259 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
2260 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
2261 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
2262 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
2263 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
2264 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
2265 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
2266 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
2267 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
2268 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
2269 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
2270 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
2271 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
2272 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
2273 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
2274 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
2275 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
2276 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
2277 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
2278 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
2280 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2281 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
2282 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
2283 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
2284 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
2285 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
2286 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
2287 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
2288 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
2289 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
2290 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
2291 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
2292 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
2294 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
2295 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2296 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
2297 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
2299 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
2300 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
2301 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2302 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
2303 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
2304 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
2305 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
2306 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
2307 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
2308 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
2310 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
2311 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
2312 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
2314 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2315 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
2316 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
2317 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
2318 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
2319 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
2320 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
2321 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
2322 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
2323 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
2324 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
2325 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2326 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
2327 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
2328 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
2329 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2330 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
2331 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
2332 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
2333 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
2335 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
2336 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
2337 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2338 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
2339 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
2340 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
2342 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
2343 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
2344 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
2346 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
2347 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
2348 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
2349 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
2350 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
2351 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
2353 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
2354 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
2355 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
2357 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
2358 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
2359 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2360 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
2361 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
2362 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2363 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
2364 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
2365 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
2366 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
2367 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
2368 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
2369 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
2370 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
2371 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
2372 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
2374 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
2375 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
2376 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2377 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
2378 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
2379 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2380 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
2381 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2382 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
2383 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
2384 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
2385 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
2386 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
2389 o Documentation fixes:
2390 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
2391 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
2392 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
2393 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
2394 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
2395 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
2398 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
2399 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
2403 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
2404 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
2405 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
2406 and fixes several crash bugs.
2408 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
2409 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
2410 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
2411 those packages and upgrade anyway.
2413 o Directory authority changes:
2414 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
2415 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
2419 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
2420 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
2421 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
2422 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
2423 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
2424 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
2425 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
2426 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
2427 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
2428 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
2429 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
2430 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
2431 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
2432 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
2433 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
2434 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
2435 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
2436 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
2437 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
2438 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
2439 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
2440 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
2441 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
2442 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
2443 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
2444 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
2445 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
2448 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
2449 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2450 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
2451 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
2453 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
2454 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
2456 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
2457 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
2458 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
2459 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
2460 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
2461 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
2462 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
2463 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
2466 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
2467 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
2468 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
2469 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
2470 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
2471 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
2472 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
2473 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
2474 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
2475 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
2476 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
2477 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
2478 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
2479 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
2480 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
2481 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
2482 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
2483 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
2484 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
2485 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
2486 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
2487 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
2488 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
2489 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
2490 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
2491 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
2492 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
2493 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
2494 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
2495 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
2496 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
2497 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
2498 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
2499 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
2500 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2501 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
2502 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
2503 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
2504 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
2505 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2506 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
2507 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
2508 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
2509 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
2510 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
2511 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
2513 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
2514 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
2515 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
2516 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
2517 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
2518 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
2519 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
2520 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
2521 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
2522 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
2523 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2524 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
2525 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
2526 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
2527 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
2530 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
2531 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
2532 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
2533 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
2535 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2538 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
2539 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
2540 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
2541 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
2542 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
2543 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
2544 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
2547 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
2548 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
2549 the development branch build on Windows again.
2551 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2552 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
2553 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
2554 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
2555 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
2556 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
2557 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
2558 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
2559 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
2560 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
2561 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
2562 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
2563 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
2564 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
2565 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
2567 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
2568 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
2569 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
2570 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2571 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
2573 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
2574 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
2575 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
2576 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
2577 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
2578 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
2581 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
2582 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
2583 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
2584 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
2585 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
2586 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
2587 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
2588 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
2589 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
2592 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
2593 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
2594 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
2595 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
2599 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
2600 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
2601 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
2602 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
2604 o Directory authority changes:
2605 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
2609 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
2610 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2611 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
2612 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
2614 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
2615 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
2616 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
2617 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
2619 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
2620 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
2621 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2623 o Major features (performance):
2624 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
2625 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
2626 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
2627 much faster than other AES implementations.
2629 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
2630 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
2631 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
2632 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
2633 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
2634 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
2635 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
2636 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
2637 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
2638 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
2639 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
2640 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
2641 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
2642 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
2643 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2644 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
2645 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
2646 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
2648 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
2649 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
2650 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
2651 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2652 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
2653 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2654 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
2655 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
2656 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
2658 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
2659 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
2660 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
2661 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
2662 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
2663 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
2666 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
2667 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
2668 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
2669 please let us know about it.
2670 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
2671 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
2672 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
2673 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
2674 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2675 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2676 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
2677 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
2679 o Default torrc changes:
2680 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
2681 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
2683 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
2684 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
2685 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
2689 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
2690 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
2691 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
2692 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
2695 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
2696 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
2697 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
2698 it would be a bad idea to start.
2701 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
2702 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
2703 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
2704 that get us closer to a release candidate.
2706 o Directory authority changes:
2707 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
2710 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
2711 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
2712 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
2713 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
2714 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
2715 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
2716 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
2717 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
2718 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
2719 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
2720 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
2721 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
2722 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
2723 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
2724 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
2725 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
2727 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
2728 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
2729 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
2730 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
2731 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
2732 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2733 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
2734 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
2735 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2736 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
2737 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
2738 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
2740 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
2741 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
2742 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2743 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
2744 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
2746 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2747 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
2748 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
2749 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
2750 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
2751 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
2752 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
2753 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
2754 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
2755 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
2756 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
2757 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
2758 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
2759 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
2760 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2761 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
2762 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
2763 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
2764 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
2765 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
2766 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
2767 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
2770 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
2771 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
2772 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2773 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
2774 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
2775 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
2776 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
2777 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
2778 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2779 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
2780 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
2781 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
2782 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
2783 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
2784 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
2785 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
2786 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
2789 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
2790 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
2791 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2794 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
2795 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
2796 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
2797 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
2800 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
2801 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
2803 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
2804 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
2805 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
2806 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
2807 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
2808 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
2809 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
2810 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
2811 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
2812 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
2813 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
2814 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2817 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
2818 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
2819 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
2820 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
2821 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
2822 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
2823 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2826 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
2827 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
2828 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
2829 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2830 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
2831 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
2832 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
2833 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
2834 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
2835 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
2837 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
2838 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
2839 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
2840 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
2841 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
2842 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
2843 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
2844 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
2845 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
2848 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2849 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
2850 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
2854 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
2855 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
2856 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
2857 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
2858 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
2859 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
2862 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
2863 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
2864 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
2865 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
2866 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
2867 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
2868 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
2869 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
2871 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
2872 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
2873 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
2874 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
2875 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
2876 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
2877 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
2878 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
2880 o Major security workaround:
2881 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
2882 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
2883 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
2884 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
2885 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
2886 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
2887 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
2888 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
2889 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
2890 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
2891 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
2894 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
2895 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
2896 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
2897 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
2898 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
2899 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
2900 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
2901 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2902 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
2903 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
2904 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
2905 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
2906 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
2908 o Minor features (controller):
2909 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
2910 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
2911 file. Resolves bug 1101.
2912 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
2913 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
2914 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
2915 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
2916 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
2917 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
2919 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
2920 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
2921 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
2922 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
2923 part of ticket 3457.
2924 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
2925 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
2926 circuit-status' control-port command.
2928 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2929 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
2930 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
2931 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
2932 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
2934 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
2935 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
2936 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
2937 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
2938 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
2939 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
2940 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
2942 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
2943 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
2945 o Minor features (other):
2946 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
2947 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
2948 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
2949 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
2950 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
2951 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
2952 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
2953 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
2955 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
2956 them from the other auths.
2957 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
2958 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
2959 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
2960 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
2962 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2964 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
2965 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
2966 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
2967 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
2968 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
2969 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
2970 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
2971 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
2972 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
2973 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
2974 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
2975 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
2976 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behaviour change can
2977 be disabled using the new
2978 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
2979 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
2980 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
2981 had its introduction cell acknowleged by the introduction-point
2982 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
2983 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
2984 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
2985 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
2986 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
2987 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
2988 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
2989 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
2991 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
2992 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
2993 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
2996 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
2997 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
2998 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
3000 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
3001 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
3002 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
3003 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
3004 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
3005 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
3006 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
3008 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
3009 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
3010 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
3011 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
3012 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
3013 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
3014 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
3015 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
3017 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
3018 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
3019 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
3020 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
3021 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
3022 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
3023 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
3024 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
3025 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
3028 o Minor bugfixes (other):
3029 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
3030 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
3031 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
3032 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
3033 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
3034 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
3035 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
3036 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
3037 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
3038 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
3039 accidentally been reverted.
3040 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
3041 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
3042 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
3043 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
3044 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
3045 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
3046 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
3047 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
3048 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
3049 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3050 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
3051 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
3052 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
3053 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
3054 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3055 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
3056 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3057 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
3058 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3061 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
3062 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
3063 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
3064 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
3065 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
3066 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
3067 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
3069 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3070 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
3071 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
3072 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
3073 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
3074 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
3075 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
3077 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
3078 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
3079 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
3080 invalid value, rather than just -1.
3081 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
3082 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
3083 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
3084 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
3085 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
3086 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
3087 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
3091 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
3092 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
3093 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
3095 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
3096 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
3097 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
3098 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
3099 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
3100 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
3101 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
3102 (which Tor does not do by default).
3104 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
3105 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
3106 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
3107 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
3108 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
3110 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
3114 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
3115 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
3116 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
3117 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
3120 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
3121 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
3122 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
3123 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
3124 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
3125 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
3126 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
3127 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
3128 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
3129 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
3130 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3133 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3136 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
3137 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
3138 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
3140 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
3141 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
3142 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
3143 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
3144 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
3145 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
3146 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
3147 (which Tor does not do by default).
3149 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
3150 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
3151 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
3152 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
3153 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
3155 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
3156 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
3157 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
3160 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
3161 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
3162 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
3163 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
3164 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
3166 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
3167 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
3170 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
3171 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
3172 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
3173 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
3174 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
3175 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
3176 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
3177 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
3179 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
3180 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
3181 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
3182 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
3183 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
3184 close based on processing a cell on it.
3185 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
3186 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
3187 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
3188 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3189 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
3190 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
3191 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
3192 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
3193 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
3194 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
3195 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
3196 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
3197 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
3198 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
3199 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
3202 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
3203 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
3204 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
3205 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
3206 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
3207 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
3208 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
3210 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
3211 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
3212 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
3213 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
3214 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
3215 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
3216 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
3217 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
3218 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3219 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
3220 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
3221 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
3222 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
3223 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
3224 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
3225 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
3226 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
3227 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
3228 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3229 Reported by "troll_un".
3230 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
3231 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3232 Reported by "troll_un".
3233 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
3234 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
3235 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
3236 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
3239 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
3240 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
3241 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
3242 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
3243 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
3244 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
3245 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
3246 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
3247 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
3248 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
3249 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3251 o Packaging changes:
3252 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
3253 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
3256 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
3257 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
3258 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
3259 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
3260 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
3262 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
3263 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
3265 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
3266 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
3267 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
3268 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
3269 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3270 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
3271 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
3272 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
3273 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
3276 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3279 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
3280 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
3281 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
3282 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
3283 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
3284 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
3285 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
3288 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
3289 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
3290 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
3291 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
3292 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
3293 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
3294 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
3295 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
3296 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
3297 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
3298 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
3299 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
3300 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
3301 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
3302 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
3303 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
3304 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
3305 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
3306 Resolves ticket 4526.
3307 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
3308 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
3309 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
3310 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
3311 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
3312 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
3313 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
3314 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
3315 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
3316 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
3317 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
3318 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
3319 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
3320 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
3321 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
3322 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
3325 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
3326 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
3327 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
3328 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
3329 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
3330 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
3331 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
3332 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
3333 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
3334 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
3336 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
3337 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
3338 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
3339 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
3340 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
3341 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
3342 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
3343 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
3344 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
3346 o Minor features (new/different config options):
3347 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
3348 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
3349 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
3350 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
3351 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
3352 Implements issue 933.
3353 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
3354 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
3355 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
3356 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
3357 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
3358 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
3359 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
3360 appending to the list.
3361 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
3362 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
3363 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
3364 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
3366 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
3367 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
3368 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
3369 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
3370 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
3371 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
3372 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
3373 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
3376 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
3377 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
3378 Resolves ticket 2474.
3379 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
3380 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
3381 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
3382 Required by fix for bug 3460.
3383 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
3384 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
3385 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
3386 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
3387 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
3388 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
3389 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
3390 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
3391 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
3393 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
3394 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
3395 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
3397 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
3399 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
3400 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
3402 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
3403 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
3404 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
3405 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
3406 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
3407 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
3408 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
3410 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
3411 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
3412 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3413 Reported by "troll_un".
3414 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
3415 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3416 Reported by "troll_un".
3417 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
3418 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
3419 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
3420 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
3422 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
3423 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
3425 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
3426 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
3427 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
3428 with help from wanoskarnet.
3429 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
3430 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
3433 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
3434 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
3435 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
3436 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3438 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
3439 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
3440 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
3441 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
3442 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
3443 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
3444 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
3445 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
3448 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
3449 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
3450 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
3451 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
3452 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
3453 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
3454 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
3455 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
3456 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
3459 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
3460 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
3461 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
3462 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
3464 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
3465 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
3466 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
3467 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3468 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
3469 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
3470 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
3471 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
3472 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
3473 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
3474 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
3475 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
3476 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
3477 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
3478 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
3479 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
3480 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
3481 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
3482 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
3483 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
3484 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
3485 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
3486 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
3487 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
3490 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
3491 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
3492 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
3493 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
3494 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
3495 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3496 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
3497 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
3500 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
3501 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
3502 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
3503 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
3504 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
3505 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
3506 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
3507 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
3508 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
3509 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
3510 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
3511 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
3512 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
3513 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
3514 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
3516 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
3517 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
3518 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
3519 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
3520 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
3521 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
3522 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
3523 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3524 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
3525 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
3526 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
3527 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
3528 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
3529 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
3530 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
3531 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
3532 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
3534 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
3535 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
3536 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
3537 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
3538 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3540 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
3541 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
3542 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
3544 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
3545 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
3546 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
3548 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
3549 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
3551 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
3552 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3555 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
3556 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
3557 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
3558 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
3559 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
3560 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
3561 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
3562 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
3563 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
3564 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
3565 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
3566 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
3567 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
3568 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
3570 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
3571 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
3572 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3574 o Packaging changes:
3575 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
3576 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
3578 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3579 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
3580 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
3581 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
3582 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
3583 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
3584 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
3585 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
3586 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
3589 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
3591 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
3592 ./src/test/bench binary.
3593 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
3594 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
3597 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
3598 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
3599 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
3603 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
3604 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
3605 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
3606 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
3607 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
3608 close based on processing a cell on it.
3609 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
3610 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
3611 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3612 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
3613 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
3614 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
3615 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
3616 cells were introduced.
3619 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
3620 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
3623 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
3624 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
3625 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
3626 users. Everybody should upgrade.
3628 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
3629 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
3632 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
3633 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
3634 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
3635 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
3636 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
3637 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
3639 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
3640 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
3641 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
3642 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
3643 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
3644 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
3645 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
3646 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
3647 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
3648 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
3649 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
3650 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
3651 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
3652 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
3653 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
3654 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
3655 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
3656 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
3659 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
3660 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
3661 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
3662 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
3663 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
3664 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
3665 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
3666 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
3667 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
3668 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
3669 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
3670 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
3671 Partly fixes bug 3825.
3672 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
3673 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
3674 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
3675 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
3676 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
3677 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
3678 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
3680 o Major bugfixes (other):
3681 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
3682 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
3683 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
3684 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3685 Found by "frosty_un".
3686 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
3687 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
3688 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
3689 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
3690 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
3691 immensely in tracking this bug down.
3692 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
3693 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
3696 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
3697 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
3698 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
3699 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
3700 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
3701 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
3702 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
3703 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
3704 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
3705 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
3706 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
3707 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
3708 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
3709 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3710 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
3711 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
3712 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
3713 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
3714 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
3715 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
3716 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
3718 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
3719 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
3720 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
3721 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3722 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
3723 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
3724 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
3725 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
3726 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
3727 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
3728 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
3731 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
3732 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
3733 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
3734 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
3735 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
3736 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
3737 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
3738 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
3739 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
3740 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
3741 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
3742 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
3743 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
3744 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3746 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3747 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
3748 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
3749 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
3750 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
3751 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
3752 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
3753 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
3756 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
3757 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
3758 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
3760 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
3761 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
3762 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
3763 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
3764 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
3765 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
3766 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
3767 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
3768 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
3769 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
3770 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
3771 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
3772 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
3774 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
3775 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
3776 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
3777 currently connected to them.
3779 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
3780 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
3781 remain; see for example proposal 188.
3783 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
3784 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
3785 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
3786 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
3787 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
3788 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
3789 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
3790 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
3791 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
3792 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
3793 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
3794 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
3795 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
3796 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
3797 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
3798 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
3799 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
3800 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
3803 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
3804 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
3805 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
3806 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
3807 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
3808 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
3809 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
3810 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
3811 when bridges were introduced.
3812 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
3813 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
3814 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
3815 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3816 Found by "frosty_un".
3819 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
3820 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
3822 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
3823 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
3824 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
3825 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
3826 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
3827 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
3828 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
3831 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
3832 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
3833 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
3834 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
3835 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
3836 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
3837 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
3838 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
3839 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
3840 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
3841 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
3842 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
3843 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
3844 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
3845 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
3846 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
3847 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
3848 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
3850 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
3851 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
3852 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
3853 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3854 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
3855 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
3856 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
3857 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
3858 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
3859 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
3860 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
3861 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
3864 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
3865 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
3866 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
3867 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3870 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
3871 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
3872 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
3873 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
3874 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
3876 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
3877 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
3878 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
3879 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
3880 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
3881 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
3882 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
3883 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
3884 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
3885 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3887 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
3888 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
3889 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
3890 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
3891 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
3892 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
3893 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
3894 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
3895 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
3896 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
3897 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
3898 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
3899 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
3900 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
3901 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3902 Found by "frosty_un".
3903 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
3904 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
3905 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
3906 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
3907 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
3908 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
3909 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
3910 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
3911 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
3912 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
3913 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
3914 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
3915 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3916 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
3917 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
3918 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
3919 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
3920 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
3921 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
3923 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
3924 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
3925 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
3926 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
3927 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
3928 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
3929 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
3930 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
3932 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
3933 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
3934 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
3935 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
3936 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
3937 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
3938 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
3939 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
3940 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
3941 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
3942 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
3943 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
3945 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
3946 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3947 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
3948 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3949 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
3950 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3951 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
3952 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
3953 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
3955 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
3957 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
3958 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
3959 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
3960 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3961 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
3962 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
3963 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
3964 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
3966 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
3967 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
3968 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
3969 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
3970 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
3972 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
3973 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
3974 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
3975 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
3976 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3979 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
3980 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
3981 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
3982 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
3983 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
3986 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
3987 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
3988 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
3989 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
3990 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
3991 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
3992 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
3993 when bridges were introduced.
3996 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
3997 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
3998 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4000 o Major features (networking):
4001 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
4002 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
4003 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
4004 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
4005 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
4009 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
4010 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
4011 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
4013 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
4014 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
4015 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
4016 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
4017 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
4019 o Minor features (diagnostics):
4020 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
4021 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
4024 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
4025 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
4026 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
4027 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
4028 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
4029 listed in the network consensus and republish.
4031 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
4032 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
4033 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
4034 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
4036 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
4037 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
4038 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
4039 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
4040 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
4041 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
4042 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
4043 that these attacks is infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
4044 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
4045 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
4046 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
4048 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
4049 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
4050 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
4051 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
4052 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
4053 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
4054 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
4055 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
4056 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
4057 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4059 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
4060 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
4061 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
4062 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
4063 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
4064 fixes part of bug 2442.
4065 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
4066 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
4067 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
4069 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
4070 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
4071 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
4072 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
4073 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4075 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
4076 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
4077 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
4078 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
4079 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
4082 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
4083 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
4084 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
4088 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
4089 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
4090 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
4091 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
4092 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
4093 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
4094 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
4097 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
4098 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
4099 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
4100 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
4101 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
4102 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
4103 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
4106 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
4107 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
4108 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
4109 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
4110 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
4111 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
4112 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
4113 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
4114 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4117 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
4118 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
4121 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
4122 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
4123 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
4124 reachable from Iran again.
4127 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
4128 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
4129 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
4131 o Minor features (security):
4132 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
4133 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
4134 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
4135 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
4136 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
4137 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
4138 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
4139 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
4140 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
4141 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
4144 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
4145 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
4146 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
4147 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
4148 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
4149 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
4150 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
4151 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
4152 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4154 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
4155 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
4156 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
4157 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
4158 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
4160 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
4161 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
4162 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
4163 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
4164 fixes part of bug 2442.
4165 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
4166 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
4167 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
4169 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
4170 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
4171 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
4172 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
4173 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4176 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
4177 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
4178 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
4179 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
4180 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
4181 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
4184 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
4185 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
4186 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
4187 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
4188 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
4189 bufferevent-based networking backend.
4191 o Major features (stream isolation):
4192 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
4193 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
4194 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
4195 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
4196 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
4197 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
4198 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
4199 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
4200 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
4201 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
4202 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
4203 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
4204 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
4205 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
4207 o Major features (other):
4208 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
4209 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
4210 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
4211 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
4212 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
4213 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
4214 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
4215 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
4216 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
4217 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
4218 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
4219 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
4220 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
4222 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
4223 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
4225 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
4226 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
4227 Fixes part of bug 3752.
4228 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
4229 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
4230 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
4231 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
4232 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
4233 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
4234 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
4235 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
4236 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
4237 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
4238 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
4239 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
4240 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
4241 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
4242 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
4243 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
4244 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
4246 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
4247 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
4248 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
4249 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
4250 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
4251 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
4254 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
4255 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
4256 user. Implements ticket 1692.
4257 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
4258 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
4259 best copy data out of a buffer.
4260 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
4261 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
4262 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
4264 o Minor features (build compatibility):
4265 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
4266 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
4267 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
4269 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
4270 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4272 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
4273 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
4274 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
4275 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
4276 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
4277 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
4278 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4280 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
4281 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
4282 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
4283 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
4284 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
4286 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
4287 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
4288 the absense of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
4291 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
4292 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
4293 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
4294 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
4295 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
4296 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
4297 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
4298 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
4299 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
4300 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
4301 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
4302 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4303 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
4304 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
4305 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
4306 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
4307 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
4308 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
4309 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
4312 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4313 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
4314 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
4318 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
4319 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
4320 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
4321 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
4322 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
4323 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
4326 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
4327 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
4328 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
4329 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
4330 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
4331 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
4332 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
4333 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
4334 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
4335 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
4337 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
4338 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
4339 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
4340 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
4341 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
4342 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
4343 many many other features and bugfixes.
4346 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
4347 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
4348 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
4351 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
4352 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
4353 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
4354 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
4355 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
4356 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
4357 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
4358 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
4361 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4364 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
4365 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
4366 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4367 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
4368 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
4369 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
4370 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
4371 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
4372 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
4373 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
4374 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
4375 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
4376 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
4377 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4378 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
4379 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
4380 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
4381 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
4385 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
4386 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
4387 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
4388 up a variety of recently introduced features.
4391 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
4392 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
4393 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
4394 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
4395 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
4396 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
4397 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
4398 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
4399 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
4400 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
4401 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
4402 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
4403 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
4404 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
4405 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
4406 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
4408 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
4409 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
4410 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
4411 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
4412 order. Fixes bug 2798.
4413 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
4414 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
4415 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
4416 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
4417 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
4418 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
4422 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
4423 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
4424 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
4425 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
4427 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
4428 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
4429 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
4430 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
4431 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
4432 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
4433 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
4434 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
4435 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
4436 Implements ticket 3264.
4437 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
4438 implements ticket 3439.
4440 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
4441 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
4442 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
4443 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
4444 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
4445 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
4446 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
4447 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
4448 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
4449 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
4450 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
4451 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
4452 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
4453 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
4454 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
4455 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
4456 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
4457 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
4458 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
4459 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
4460 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
4461 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
4462 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
4463 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
4464 fails. Spotted by coverity.
4465 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
4466 present. Found by coverity.
4467 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
4468 a directory cache that provides them.
4470 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
4471 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
4472 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
4473 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
4474 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
4475 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
4477 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
4478 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
4479 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
4480 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
4481 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
4482 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4483 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
4484 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
4486 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4487 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
4488 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
4489 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
4490 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
4491 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
4492 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
4494 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
4498 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
4499 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
4500 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
4503 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
4504 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
4505 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
4506 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
4509 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
4510 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
4511 discovered by katmagic.
4512 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
4513 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
4514 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
4515 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4516 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
4517 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
4518 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
4519 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
4520 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
4521 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
4522 fixes part of bug 3465.
4523 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
4524 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
4528 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4531 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
4532 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
4533 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
4534 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
4535 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
4538 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
4539 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
4540 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
4541 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
4542 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
4545 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
4546 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
4547 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
4548 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
4549 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
4550 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
4553 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
4554 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
4555 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
4556 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
4557 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
4558 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
4559 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
4560 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
4561 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
4562 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
4563 fixes part of bug 3407.
4564 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
4565 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
4566 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
4567 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
4568 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
4569 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
4570 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
4571 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
4572 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
4573 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
4575 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
4576 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
4577 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
4578 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
4581 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4583 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4584 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
4585 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
4587 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
4589 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
4592 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
4593 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
4594 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
4595 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
4596 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
4597 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
4601 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
4602 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
4603 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
4604 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
4605 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
4606 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
4607 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
4609 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
4610 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
4611 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
4612 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
4613 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
4614 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
4615 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
4616 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
4617 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
4618 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
4619 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
4620 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
4621 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
4622 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
4623 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
4624 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
4625 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
4626 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
4627 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
4631 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
4632 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
4633 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
4634 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
4635 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
4636 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
4637 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
4638 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
4639 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
4643 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
4644 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
4645 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
4647 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
4649 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
4650 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
4651 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
4652 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
4653 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4654 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
4655 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
4656 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
4657 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
4659 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
4660 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
4661 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
4662 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
4663 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
4664 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
4666 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
4667 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
4669 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
4670 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
4671 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
4674 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
4675 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
4676 Resolves ticket 3252.
4677 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
4678 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
4679 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
4680 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
4681 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
4682 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
4685 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
4686 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
4689 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
4690 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
4691 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
4694 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
4695 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
4696 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
4697 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
4698 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
4701 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
4702 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
4703 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
4704 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
4705 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
4706 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
4707 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
4708 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
4709 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
4713 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
4714 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
4715 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
4716 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
4717 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
4719 o Security/privacy fixes:
4720 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
4721 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
4722 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
4723 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
4724 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
4725 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
4726 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
4727 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
4728 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
4729 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
4730 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
4731 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
4732 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
4733 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
4734 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4737 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
4738 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
4739 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
4740 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
4741 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
4742 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
4743 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
4744 part of ticket 3076.
4745 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
4746 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
4747 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
4751 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
4752 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
4753 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
4754 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
4755 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
4756 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
4757 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
4758 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
4760 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
4761 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
4762 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
4763 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
4764 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
4765 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
4766 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
4767 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
4768 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
4769 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
4770 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
4771 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
4772 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4775 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
4776 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
4777 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
4778 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
4779 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
4780 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
4781 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
4783 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
4784 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
4785 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
4786 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
4787 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
4788 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
4789 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
4790 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
4791 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
4792 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
4793 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
4794 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
4795 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
4796 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
4797 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
4798 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
4800 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
4801 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
4803 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
4804 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
4806 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
4807 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
4809 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
4810 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
4811 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4813 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
4814 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
4815 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
4816 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
4817 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4818 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
4819 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
4820 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
4821 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
4822 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
4823 consensus. Bugfix on tor-0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
4825 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
4826 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
4827 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
4828 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
4829 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
4830 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
4831 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
4832 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
4833 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
4834 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
4835 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4836 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
4837 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
4841 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
4842 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
4843 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
4847 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
4848 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
4849 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
4850 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
4851 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
4852 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
4854 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
4855 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
4856 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
4859 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
4860 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
4861 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
4862 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
4863 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
4864 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
4865 zero-copy transports where available.
4866 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
4867 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
4868 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
4869 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
4870 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
4871 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
4872 debug it as it breaks.
4873 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
4874 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
4875 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
4876 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
4877 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
4878 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
4879 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
4880 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
4881 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
4882 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
4883 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
4884 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
4885 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
4886 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
4887 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
4888 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
4889 PortForwarding option.
4890 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
4891 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
4892 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
4893 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
4894 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
4895 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
4896 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
4899 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
4900 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
4901 Implements enhancement 1668.
4902 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
4904 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
4905 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
4906 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
4907 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
4908 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
4909 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
4910 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
4912 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
4913 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
4914 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
4915 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
4916 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
4917 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
4918 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
4920 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
4921 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
4922 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
4923 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
4924 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
4925 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
4926 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
4928 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
4929 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
4930 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
4931 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
4932 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4933 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
4934 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
4935 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
4936 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
4937 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
4938 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
4939 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
4940 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
4941 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
4942 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
4945 o Minor features (controller):
4946 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
4947 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
4948 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
4949 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
4950 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
4951 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
4952 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
4955 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
4956 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
4957 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
4958 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
4959 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
4960 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
4961 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
4962 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
4964 o Minor packaging issues:
4965 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
4966 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
4968 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4969 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
4970 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
4971 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
4972 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
4973 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
4974 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
4975 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
4976 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
4977 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
4978 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
4979 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
4980 our library structure used to force them to link it.
4983 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
4984 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
4985 are no longer in use as servers.
4987 o Documentation fixes:
4988 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
4989 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
4990 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
4994 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
4995 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
4996 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
4997 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
4998 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
4999 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
5000 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
5001 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
5002 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
5003 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
5006 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
5007 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
5008 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
5009 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
5010 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
5011 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
5012 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
5013 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
5014 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
5015 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5016 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
5017 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
5018 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5019 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
5020 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
5021 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
5023 o Security and stability fixes:
5024 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
5025 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
5026 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
5027 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
5028 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
5029 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
5030 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
5031 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
5032 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
5033 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
5034 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
5035 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
5036 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5037 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
5038 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
5039 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
5042 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
5043 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
5044 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
5045 contributions to the network.
5047 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
5048 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
5049 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
5050 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
5051 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
5052 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
5053 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
5054 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
5055 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
5056 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
5057 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
5058 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
5059 connections to directory servers.
5060 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
5061 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
5062 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
5063 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
5064 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
5065 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
5066 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
5067 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
5068 information, or fetch directory information.
5069 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
5070 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
5071 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
5072 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
5073 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
5074 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
5075 unless you really want your Tor to break.
5076 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
5077 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
5078 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
5079 - When StrictNodes is 1:
5080 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
5081 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
5082 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
5083 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
5084 reachability self-tests.
5085 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
5086 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
5087 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
5088 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
5089 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
5090 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
5091 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
5093 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
5094 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5095 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
5096 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
5097 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
5098 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
5099 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
5100 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
5101 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
5102 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
5103 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
5106 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
5107 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
5108 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
5109 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
5110 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
5111 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
5112 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
5113 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
5114 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
5115 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
5116 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
5117 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5118 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
5119 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
5120 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
5121 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
5122 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
5124 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
5125 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
5126 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
5127 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
5128 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5129 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
5130 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5131 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
5132 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5133 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
5134 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
5135 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
5136 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
5137 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
5138 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
5139 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
5140 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
5141 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
5142 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
5143 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
5146 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
5147 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
5148 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
5149 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
5150 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
5151 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
5152 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
5153 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
5154 Required by fix for bug 3000.
5155 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
5156 by fix for bug 3000.
5157 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
5158 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
5160 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5161 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
5162 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
5163 send a body too). Since only server versions before
5164 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
5165 keep the workaround in place.
5166 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
5167 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
5168 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
5169 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
5170 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
5171 want to do it differently.
5172 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
5173 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
5174 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
5175 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
5176 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
5180 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
5181 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
5182 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
5183 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
5184 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
5187 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
5188 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
5189 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
5190 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
5191 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
5193 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
5194 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
5195 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
5196 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
5197 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
5198 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
5199 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
5200 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
5201 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
5202 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
5203 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
5204 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
5207 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
5208 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
5209 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
5210 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
5211 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
5212 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
5213 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
5215 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
5216 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
5217 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
5218 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
5219 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
5220 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
5221 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
5222 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
5223 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
5224 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
5225 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
5226 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
5227 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
5228 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
5229 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
5230 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
5231 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
5232 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
5233 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
5234 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
5235 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
5236 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
5237 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5240 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
5242 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
5243 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
5244 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
5246 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
5247 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
5248 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
5249 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
5251 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
5252 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
5253 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
5254 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5257 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
5258 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
5260 o Documentation changes:
5261 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
5262 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
5264 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
5267 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
5268 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
5269 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
5270 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
5271 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
5272 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
5275 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
5276 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
5277 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
5278 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
5279 the rest of bug 1074.
5280 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
5281 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
5282 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
5283 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
5284 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
5285 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
5286 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5287 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
5288 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
5289 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
5290 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
5291 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
5292 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
5293 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5296 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
5297 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
5298 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
5299 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
5300 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
5301 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
5302 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
5303 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
5304 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
5305 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
5306 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
5307 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
5308 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
5309 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
5311 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
5312 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
5313 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
5314 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
5315 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
5316 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
5318 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
5319 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
5320 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
5321 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
5322 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
5323 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
5324 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
5325 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
5326 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
5328 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
5329 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
5330 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
5331 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
5332 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
5333 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
5334 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
5335 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
5336 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
5337 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
5338 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
5339 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
5340 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
5341 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5342 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
5343 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
5345 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
5346 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
5347 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
5348 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
5349 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
5350 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
5352 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
5353 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
5354 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
5356 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
5357 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
5358 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
5359 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
5360 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
5361 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
5362 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
5364 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
5365 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
5366 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
5367 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
5368 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
5372 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
5373 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
5374 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
5375 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
5376 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
5377 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
5378 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
5379 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
5380 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
5381 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
5382 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
5383 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
5385 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5387 o Minor features (log subsystem):
5388 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
5389 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
5390 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
5392 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
5393 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
5395 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
5396 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
5397 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
5400 o Packaging changes:
5401 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
5402 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
5403 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
5406 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
5407 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
5408 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
5409 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
5410 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
5411 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
5414 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
5415 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
5416 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
5417 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
5418 the rest of bug 1074.
5419 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
5420 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5422 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
5423 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
5424 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
5425 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
5426 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
5427 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
5428 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5431 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
5433 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5436 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
5437 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
5438 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
5439 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
5440 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
5441 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
5442 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
5443 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
5444 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
5445 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
5446 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5448 o Packaging changes:
5449 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
5450 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
5451 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
5452 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
5453 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
5454 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
5457 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
5458 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
5459 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
5460 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
5461 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
5462 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
5465 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
5466 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5468 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
5469 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
5470 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
5471 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
5474 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
5476 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
5477 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
5478 Implements ticket 2432.
5481 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
5482 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
5483 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
5486 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
5487 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
5488 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
5489 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
5490 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
5491 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
5493 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
5494 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
5495 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
5496 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
5498 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
5499 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
5500 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
5501 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
5502 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
5503 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
5504 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
5505 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
5507 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
5508 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
5509 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
5510 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
5511 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
5512 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
5513 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
5514 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
5515 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
5516 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
5517 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
5518 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
5519 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
5520 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
5523 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
5524 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
5525 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
5526 bug reported by doorss.
5527 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
5528 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
5529 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5530 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
5531 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
5533 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
5534 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
5535 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
5536 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
5537 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
5539 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
5540 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5541 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
5543 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
5544 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
5545 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
5546 Automake 1.7 or later.
5547 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
5548 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
5549 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
5550 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
5552 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
5553 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
5554 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
5557 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
5558 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
5559 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
5560 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
5562 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
5563 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
5564 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
5565 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
5566 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
5567 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
5568 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
5569 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
5570 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
5572 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
5573 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
5574 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
5577 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
5578 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
5579 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
5580 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
5581 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
5582 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
5583 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
5584 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
5585 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
5586 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
5587 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
5588 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
5589 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
5591 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
5592 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
5596 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
5597 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
5598 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
5599 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
5600 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
5602 o Major bugfixes (security):
5603 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
5604 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
5605 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
5607 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
5608 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
5609 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
5610 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
5611 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
5612 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
5613 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
5614 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
5616 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
5617 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
5618 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
5619 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
5620 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
5621 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
5622 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
5623 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
5624 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
5625 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
5626 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
5627 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
5628 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
5629 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
5632 o Minor bugfixes (other):
5633 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
5634 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
5635 bug reported by doorss.
5636 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
5637 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
5638 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5639 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
5640 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
5642 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
5643 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
5644 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
5645 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
5646 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
5647 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
5648 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
5649 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
5650 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
5653 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5654 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
5657 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
5658 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
5659 Automake 1.7 or later.
5662 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
5663 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
5664 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
5665 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
5666 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
5669 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
5670 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
5671 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
5672 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
5673 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
5674 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
5675 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
5676 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
5677 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
5678 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
5679 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
5681 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
5682 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
5683 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
5684 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
5686 o Directory authority changes:
5687 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
5690 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
5691 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
5692 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
5693 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
5694 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
5695 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5696 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
5697 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
5698 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
5701 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5702 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
5703 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
5704 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
5705 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
5706 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
5707 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
5708 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
5709 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
5710 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
5714 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
5715 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
5716 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
5717 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
5721 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
5722 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
5723 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
5724 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
5726 o Directory authority changes:
5727 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
5730 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5733 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
5734 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
5735 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
5736 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
5737 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
5740 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
5741 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
5742 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
5743 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
5744 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5745 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
5746 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
5747 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
5748 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
5749 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
5750 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
5751 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
5752 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
5753 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
5754 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
5755 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
5756 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
5757 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
5758 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
5759 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
5760 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
5761 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
5762 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
5765 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
5766 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
5767 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
5768 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
5770 o New directory authorities:
5771 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
5775 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
5776 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
5777 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
5779 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
5780 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
5781 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
5782 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
5783 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
5784 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
5786 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
5787 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
5788 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
5791 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
5792 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
5793 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
5794 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
5795 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
5796 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
5797 Patch from mingw-san.
5800 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
5801 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
5802 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
5803 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
5804 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
5805 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
5808 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
5809 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
5810 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
5813 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
5814 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
5815 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
5816 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
5817 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5820 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
5821 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
5822 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
5823 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
5824 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
5825 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
5826 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
5827 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
5828 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
5831 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
5832 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
5833 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
5834 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
5835 to a stable release.
5838 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
5839 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
5840 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
5841 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
5842 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
5843 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
5844 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
5845 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
5846 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
5847 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
5848 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
5849 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
5850 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
5851 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
5852 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
5853 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
5854 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
5855 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
5856 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
5857 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
5858 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
5859 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
5860 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
5861 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
5862 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
5863 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
5864 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
5865 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
5866 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
5867 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
5868 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
5871 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
5872 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
5873 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
5874 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
5875 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
5876 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
5877 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
5878 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
5879 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
5880 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
5881 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
5882 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
5883 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
5884 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5885 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
5886 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
5887 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
5889 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
5890 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
5891 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
5892 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
5893 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
5895 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
5896 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
5897 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
5898 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
5901 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
5902 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
5903 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
5904 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
5905 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
5906 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
5907 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
5908 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5910 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5911 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
5912 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
5913 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
5914 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
5915 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
5916 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
5917 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
5918 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
5919 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
5920 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
5921 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
5922 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
5923 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
5924 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
5927 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
5928 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
5929 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
5930 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
5931 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
5932 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
5933 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
5934 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
5935 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
5938 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
5939 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
5940 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
5941 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
5942 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
5944 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
5945 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
5946 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
5947 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
5948 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
5949 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
5950 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
5951 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
5952 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
5953 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
5954 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
5955 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
5956 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
5957 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
5959 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
5960 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
5962 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
5963 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
5964 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
5965 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
5966 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
5967 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
5968 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
5969 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
5970 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
5971 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
5972 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
5973 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
5974 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
5975 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
5976 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
5977 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
5978 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
5979 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
5981 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
5982 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
5983 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
5984 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
5985 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
5986 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
5987 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
5988 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
5989 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
5990 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
5991 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
5992 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
5993 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
5995 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
5996 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
5997 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
5998 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6001 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
6002 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
6003 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
6004 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
6005 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
6006 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
6007 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
6008 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
6009 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
6010 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
6011 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
6012 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
6013 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
6014 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
6015 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
6016 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
6017 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
6018 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
6019 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
6022 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
6023 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
6024 based on the time during which we were active and not in
6025 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
6026 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
6027 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
6028 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
6029 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6031 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
6032 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
6033 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
6034 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
6035 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
6036 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
6037 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
6038 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
6039 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
6040 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
6043 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
6044 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
6045 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
6046 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
6048 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
6049 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
6050 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
6051 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
6052 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
6053 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
6054 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
6055 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
6056 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
6057 the longest-lived bug prize.
6058 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
6059 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
6060 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
6061 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
6062 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
6063 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
6065 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
6066 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
6067 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
6068 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
6069 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
6070 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
6074 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6075 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
6076 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
6077 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
6078 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
6079 got suppressed since the last warning.
6080 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
6081 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
6082 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
6083 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
6084 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
6085 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
6086 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
6087 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
6088 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
6089 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
6090 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
6091 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
6092 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
6093 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
6094 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
6095 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
6096 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
6097 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
6098 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
6100 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
6101 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
6102 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
6104 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
6105 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
6106 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
6107 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
6108 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
6109 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
6110 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
6111 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
6112 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
6113 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
6114 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
6115 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
6116 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
6117 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
6118 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
6120 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
6121 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
6122 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
6123 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
6124 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
6125 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6126 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
6128 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
6129 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
6130 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
6131 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
6132 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
6135 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
6136 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
6137 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
6138 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
6139 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
6140 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
6141 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
6142 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
6143 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
6144 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
6145 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
6146 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
6147 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
6148 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
6149 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
6150 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
6151 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
6152 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
6155 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
6158 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
6159 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
6160 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
6161 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
6162 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
6166 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
6167 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
6168 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
6169 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
6170 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
6171 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
6172 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
6173 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
6174 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
6175 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
6176 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
6177 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
6178 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
6179 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
6180 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
6181 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
6182 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
6185 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
6186 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
6187 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
6188 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
6189 they first get the Guard flag.
6190 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
6194 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6195 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
6196 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
6197 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
6198 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
6199 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
6200 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
6201 Patch from mingw-san.
6202 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
6203 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
6205 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
6206 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
6207 Implements enhancement 1790.
6209 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
6210 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
6211 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
6212 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
6213 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
6214 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
6215 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
6216 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
6217 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
6218 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
6219 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
6220 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
6221 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
6222 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
6223 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
6224 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
6225 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
6226 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
6227 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
6228 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
6230 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
6231 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
6232 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
6233 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
6234 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
6235 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
6236 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
6237 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
6238 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
6239 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
6240 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
6241 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
6242 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
6244 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
6245 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
6246 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
6247 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
6248 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
6249 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6251 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
6252 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
6253 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
6254 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
6255 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
6256 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
6257 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
6258 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
6259 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
6260 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
6261 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
6262 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
6264 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
6265 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
6266 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
6267 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
6268 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
6269 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
6270 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
6272 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
6274 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
6275 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6276 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
6277 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
6278 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
6279 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
6281 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6282 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
6283 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
6284 structures and defines in or.h for now.
6285 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
6286 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
6287 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
6288 statistics code to be more easily tested.
6289 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
6290 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
6291 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
6294 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
6295 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
6296 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
6297 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
6298 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
6299 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
6303 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
6304 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
6305 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
6306 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
6307 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
6308 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
6309 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
6310 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
6311 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
6312 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
6313 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
6314 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
6315 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
6317 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
6318 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
6319 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
6320 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
6321 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
6322 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
6323 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
6324 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
6325 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
6326 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
6327 can be controlled by the consensus.
6330 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
6331 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
6332 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
6333 more accurate data for many African countries.
6334 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
6335 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
6336 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
6337 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
6338 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
6339 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
6340 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
6341 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
6342 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
6343 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
6344 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
6345 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
6347 o New directory authorities:
6348 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
6352 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
6353 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
6354 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
6355 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
6356 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
6357 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
6358 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
6359 what should go in a patch.
6360 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
6361 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
6362 over our stored history.
6363 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
6364 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
6365 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
6366 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
6367 file. Fixes bug 1296.
6368 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
6369 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
6370 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
6374 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
6376 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
6377 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
6378 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
6379 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
6380 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
6381 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
6382 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
6383 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
6384 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
6385 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
6386 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
6387 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6388 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
6389 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
6390 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
6391 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
6392 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
6393 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
6394 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
6395 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
6396 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
6397 two-hop circuits are actually created.
6398 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
6399 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6400 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
6401 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6404 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
6405 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
6406 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
6407 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
6408 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
6410 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
6411 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
6414 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
6415 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
6416 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
6417 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
6418 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
6419 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
6420 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
6421 their directory fetches over TLS).
6422 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
6423 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
6424 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
6425 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
6426 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
6427 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
6428 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
6429 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
6432 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
6433 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
6437 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
6438 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6439 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
6440 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
6441 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
6442 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
6443 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6446 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
6447 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
6448 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
6449 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
6450 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
6453 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
6454 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
6455 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
6456 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
6457 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
6458 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
6459 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
6460 their directory fetches over TLS).
6463 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
6464 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
6466 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
6467 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
6468 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
6469 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
6470 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
6471 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
6472 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
6473 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
6474 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
6475 hour of their uptime.
6478 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
6479 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
6480 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
6484 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
6485 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
6486 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
6487 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
6488 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
6489 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
6491 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
6492 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
6493 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
6495 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
6496 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
6500 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
6501 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
6502 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
6506 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
6507 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
6508 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
6511 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
6512 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
6513 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
6514 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
6515 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
6516 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
6517 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
6518 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
6519 about the option without breaking older ones.
6520 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
6521 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
6522 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
6523 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
6526 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
6527 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
6528 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
6529 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
6531 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
6532 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
6533 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
6536 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
6537 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
6539 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
6540 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
6541 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
6542 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
6543 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
6544 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
6545 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6546 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
6547 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
6548 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
6549 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
6552 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
6553 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6554 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
6555 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
6556 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
6557 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
6558 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6561 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
6562 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
6563 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
6564 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
6565 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
6566 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
6569 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
6570 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
6571 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
6572 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
6574 o Major features (performance):
6575 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
6576 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
6577 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
6578 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
6579 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
6580 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
6581 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
6583 o Minor features (performance):
6584 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
6585 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
6586 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
6587 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
6588 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
6592 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
6593 speeds up the build considerably.
6595 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
6596 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
6597 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6598 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
6599 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
6600 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
6601 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
6602 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6604 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
6605 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
6606 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
6608 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
6609 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
6610 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
6611 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
6613 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6614 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
6615 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
6616 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
6617 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
6618 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
6621 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
6622 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
6623 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
6625 o Directory authority changes:
6626 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
6627 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
6628 service directory authority) from the list.
6631 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
6632 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
6633 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
6634 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
6635 libraries in a security patch.
6636 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
6637 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
6638 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
6639 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
6641 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
6642 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
6643 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
6644 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
6645 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
6646 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
6647 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
6650 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
6651 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
6652 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
6653 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
6654 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
6655 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
6656 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
6657 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
6658 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
6659 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
6660 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
6661 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
6662 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
6664 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
6665 behaviour for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
6666 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
6667 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
6668 control-spec.txt said they were.
6669 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
6670 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
6671 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
6672 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
6673 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6675 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6676 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
6677 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
6679 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
6680 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
6681 iPhone SDK versions.
6682 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
6683 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
6684 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
6685 projects directory in svn.
6686 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
6687 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
6688 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
6692 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
6693 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
6694 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
6696 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
6697 to the circuit build timeout.
6698 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
6699 arguments we do not recognize.
6700 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
6701 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
6702 open() without checking it.
6705 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
6706 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
6707 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
6708 several minor potential security bugs.
6711 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
6712 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
6713 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
6714 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
6715 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
6716 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
6717 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
6720 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
6721 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
6723 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
6724 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
6725 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
6726 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
6730 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
6731 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
6735 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
6736 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
6737 customized patches to run/build.
6740 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
6741 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
6742 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
6745 o Major bugfixes (performance):
6746 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
6747 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
6748 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
6749 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
6750 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
6751 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
6752 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
6755 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
6756 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
6757 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
6758 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
6759 libraries in a security patch.
6760 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
6761 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
6762 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
6763 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
6766 o Directory authority changes:
6767 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
6768 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
6769 service directory authority) from the list.
6772 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
6773 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
6776 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
6777 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
6778 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
6779 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
6780 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
6783 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
6784 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
6785 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
6789 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occured during the
6790 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
6791 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
6792 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
6793 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
6796 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
6797 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
6798 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
6802 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
6803 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
6804 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
6805 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
6806 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
6808 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
6809 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
6811 o Directory authority changes:
6812 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
6815 o Major features (performance):
6816 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
6817 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
6818 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
6819 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
6820 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
6821 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
6822 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
6823 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
6824 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
6825 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
6826 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
6827 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
6828 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
6830 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
6831 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
6832 but never per-conn write limits.
6833 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
6834 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
6835 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
6836 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
6838 o Major features (relay selection options):
6839 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
6840 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
6841 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
6842 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
6843 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
6844 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
6845 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
6847 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
6848 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
6850 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
6851 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
6852 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
6853 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
6854 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
6855 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
6856 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
6857 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
6858 the network changes.
6861 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
6862 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
6863 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6866 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
6867 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
6868 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
6869 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
6870 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
6871 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
6872 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
6873 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
6874 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
6875 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
6876 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
6877 generated while acting as a relay.
6878 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
6879 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
6880 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
6881 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
6882 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
6883 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
6885 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
6886 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
6887 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
6888 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
6889 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
6890 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
6893 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
6894 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
6895 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
6897 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
6898 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
6899 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
6901 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
6902 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
6904 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
6905 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
6906 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
6908 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
6909 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
6912 o Minor bugfixes (other):
6913 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
6914 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
6915 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
6916 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
6917 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
6918 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
6919 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
6920 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
6922 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
6926 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
6927 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
6928 hidden service usage.
6931 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
6932 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
6933 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
6934 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
6935 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
6937 o Directory authority changes:
6938 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
6942 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
6943 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
6944 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6947 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
6948 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
6949 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
6950 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
6951 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
6954 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
6955 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
6956 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
6957 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
6958 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
6959 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
6960 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
6963 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
6964 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
6965 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6966 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
6967 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
6968 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
6970 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
6971 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
6974 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
6975 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
6976 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
6977 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
6978 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
6979 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
6982 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
6983 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
6984 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
6986 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
6987 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
6988 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
6989 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
6990 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
6991 download consensus + microdescriptors".
6992 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
6993 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
6994 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
6995 hash algorithm in the future.
6996 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
6997 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
6998 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
6999 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
7000 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
7001 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
7002 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
7003 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
7004 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
7007 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
7008 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
7009 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
7010 won't work unless we say we are.
7013 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
7014 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
7015 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
7016 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
7017 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
7018 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
7019 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
7020 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
7021 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7022 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
7023 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
7024 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
7025 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
7026 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
7027 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
7028 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
7029 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
7030 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
7031 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
7032 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
7033 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
7034 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
7037 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
7038 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
7039 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
7040 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
7042 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
7043 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
7045 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
7046 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
7047 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
7048 in the Vidalia Settings window.
7051 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
7052 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
7053 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
7054 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
7055 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
7057 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
7058 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
7060 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
7061 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
7062 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
7065 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
7066 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
7067 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
7069 o New directory authorities:
7070 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
7072 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
7075 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
7076 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
7078 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
7079 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
7080 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7081 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
7082 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
7083 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
7084 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7085 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
7086 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
7087 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
7088 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
7089 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
7090 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
7091 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
7092 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
7093 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
7094 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
7096 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
7097 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
7098 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
7100 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
7101 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
7105 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
7106 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
7107 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
7108 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
7109 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
7112 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
7113 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7116 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7118 o Directory authorities:
7119 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
7123 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
7124 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
7125 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
7126 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
7127 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
7130 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
7131 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
7132 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
7133 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
7135 o New directory authorities:
7136 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
7139 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
7140 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
7141 SSL handshake issues.
7142 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
7143 during the TLS handshake.
7144 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
7145 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
7146 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
7147 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
7148 none of which are very big.
7151 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
7153 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
7154 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7155 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
7156 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
7157 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7158 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
7159 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
7160 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
7163 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7164 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
7165 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
7166 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
7167 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
7170 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
7171 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7174 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
7175 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
7178 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
7179 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
7180 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7183 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
7184 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
7185 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
7186 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
7187 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
7188 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
7191 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
7192 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
7193 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
7194 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
7195 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
7196 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
7197 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
7198 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
7199 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
7200 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
7201 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
7202 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
7203 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
7204 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
7205 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
7206 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
7207 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
7208 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
7211 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
7212 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
7216 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
7217 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
7218 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7219 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
7220 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
7221 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
7222 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7223 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
7224 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
7225 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
7226 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7227 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
7228 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
7229 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
7230 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
7231 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
7232 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
7233 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
7234 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
7235 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
7236 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
7238 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
7239 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
7240 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
7241 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7242 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
7243 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
7245 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
7246 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
7247 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
7250 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
7251 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
7252 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
7253 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
7254 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
7255 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
7258 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
7259 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
7260 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
7261 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
7262 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
7265 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
7266 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
7267 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
7270 o New directory authorities:
7271 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
7275 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
7276 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
7277 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
7278 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
7279 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
7282 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
7283 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
7284 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
7285 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
7286 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
7289 o New options for gathering stats safely:
7290 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
7291 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
7292 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
7293 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
7294 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
7295 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
7296 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
7297 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
7298 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
7300 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
7301 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
7302 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
7303 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
7305 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
7306 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
7307 their extra-info documents.
7310 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
7311 source files Tor was built with.
7312 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
7313 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
7314 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
7315 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
7316 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
7317 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
7319 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
7320 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
7321 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
7322 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
7323 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
7325 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
7326 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
7329 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
7330 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
7331 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
7332 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
7333 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
7335 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
7336 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
7338 o Deprecated and removed features:
7339 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
7340 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
7341 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
7342 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
7343 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
7344 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
7345 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
7346 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
7348 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
7349 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
7350 via application-level web tricks.
7352 o Packaging changes:
7353 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
7354 installer bundles. See
7355 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
7356 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
7357 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
7358 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
7359 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
7360 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
7361 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
7362 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
7363 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
7364 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
7365 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
7366 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
7369 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
7370 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
7371 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
7374 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
7375 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
7376 part of patch provided by "optimist".
7379 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
7380 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
7381 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
7382 and confuse fewer users.
7385 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
7386 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
7387 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
7388 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
7389 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
7390 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
7391 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
7394 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
7395 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
7396 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
7397 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
7398 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
7399 other features and bug fixes.
7402 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
7405 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
7406 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
7407 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
7408 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
7409 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
7412 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
7413 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
7414 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
7415 failure message (oops).
7418 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
7419 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
7420 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
7421 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
7425 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
7426 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
7427 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
7428 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
7429 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
7430 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
7431 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7432 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
7433 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
7434 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
7435 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
7436 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
7437 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
7438 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
7439 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
7442 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
7443 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
7444 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
7445 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
7446 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
7447 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
7448 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
7449 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
7450 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
7451 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
7452 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
7453 Workaround for bug 1024.
7454 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
7458 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
7459 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
7460 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
7463 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
7465 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
7466 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
7467 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
7468 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
7469 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
7472 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
7473 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
7474 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
7475 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
7476 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
7477 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
7478 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
7479 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
7480 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
7481 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
7484 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
7485 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
7486 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
7487 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
7488 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
7489 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
7490 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
7491 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
7494 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
7495 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
7496 a bunch of minor bugs.
7499 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
7500 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
7501 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
7503 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
7504 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
7505 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
7506 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
7508 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
7512 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
7513 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
7514 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
7516 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
7517 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
7519 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
7520 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
7522 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
7523 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
7524 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
7525 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
7526 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
7527 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
7528 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
7529 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
7531 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
7532 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
7533 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
7535 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
7536 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
7537 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
7538 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
7539 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
7543 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
7544 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
7545 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
7548 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
7549 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
7550 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
7551 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
7553 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
7554 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
7555 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
7556 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
7557 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
7558 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
7559 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
7560 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
7561 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
7562 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
7563 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
7564 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7565 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
7566 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
7567 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
7568 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
7569 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
7571 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
7572 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
7573 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
7574 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7576 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
7577 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
7578 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
7581 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
7582 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
7583 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
7584 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
7585 addresses to fall out of the directory.
7588 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
7589 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
7590 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
7591 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
7593 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
7594 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
7595 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
7596 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
7597 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
7598 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
7599 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
7600 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
7601 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
7602 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
7603 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
7604 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
7605 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
7607 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
7608 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
7611 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
7612 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
7613 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
7614 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
7615 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
7616 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
7618 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
7619 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
7620 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
7621 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
7622 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
7624 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
7627 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
7628 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
7630 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
7631 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
7632 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7633 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7634 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
7635 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
7637 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
7638 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7639 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
7640 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
7641 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
7642 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7643 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
7644 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
7645 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
7646 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
7647 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
7648 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
7652 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
7653 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
7654 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
7657 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
7658 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
7659 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7661 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
7662 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
7663 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
7664 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
7665 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
7666 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
7667 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
7668 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
7669 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
7670 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
7671 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
7672 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
7673 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
7674 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
7675 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
7676 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
7677 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
7678 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
7679 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
7680 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
7681 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
7682 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
7683 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
7684 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
7685 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
7686 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
7688 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
7689 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
7690 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
7691 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
7692 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
7693 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
7694 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
7695 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
7696 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
7697 of 0. Suggested by lark.
7699 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
7700 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
7701 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
7702 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
7703 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
7706 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
7708 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
7709 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
7710 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
7711 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
7714 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
7715 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
7716 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
7717 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
7718 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
7720 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
7721 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
7722 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
7723 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
7726 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
7727 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7728 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
7729 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
7730 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
7731 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
7732 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
7733 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
7736 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
7737 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
7738 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
7739 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
7742 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
7743 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
7744 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
7745 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
7746 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
7747 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
7750 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
7751 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7752 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
7753 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
7754 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
7755 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
7758 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
7759 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
7760 reported by Matt Edman.
7761 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
7763 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
7764 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
7765 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
7766 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
7768 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
7769 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7770 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
7771 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7772 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
7773 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
7774 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
7775 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
7776 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
7777 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
7778 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
7779 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
7780 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
7781 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
7782 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
7783 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
7784 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
7785 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
7786 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7789 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
7790 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
7791 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
7792 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
7795 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
7796 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
7797 the letter of C99's alias rules.
7800 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
7801 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
7802 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
7803 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
7805 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
7806 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
7807 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
7810 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
7811 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
7814 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
7815 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
7816 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
7817 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
7818 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
7820 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
7821 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
7822 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
7823 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
7824 identify a connection.
7825 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
7826 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
7827 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
7828 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
7829 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
7830 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
7831 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
7832 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
7833 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
7834 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
7836 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
7837 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
7838 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
7839 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
7840 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
7841 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
7842 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
7845 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
7846 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
7848 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
7849 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
7850 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
7851 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
7852 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
7853 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
7854 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7855 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
7857 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
7858 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
7859 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
7860 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
7861 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
7862 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
7863 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
7864 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
7865 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
7866 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
7867 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
7868 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
7869 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
7870 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
7871 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
7872 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
7873 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
7874 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
7875 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
7876 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
7877 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
7878 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
7879 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
7880 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
7881 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
7882 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
7883 840. Patch from rovv.
7884 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
7885 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
7886 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
7888 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
7889 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
7890 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
7891 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
7892 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
7893 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
7894 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
7896 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
7897 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
7898 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
7901 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
7902 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
7904 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
7905 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
7906 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
7907 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
7908 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
7909 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
7910 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
7911 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
7912 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
7914 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
7916 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
7917 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
7921 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
7922 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
7923 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
7924 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
7925 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
7926 have had some time to upgrade.)
7929 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
7930 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
7933 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
7934 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
7935 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
7936 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
7937 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
7940 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
7941 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
7943 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
7944 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
7945 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
7946 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
7947 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
7948 entirely. Patch from coderman.
7951 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
7952 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
7953 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
7954 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
7955 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
7956 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
7957 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
7961 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
7962 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
7963 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
7964 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
7965 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
7966 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
7967 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
7970 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
7971 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
7972 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
7973 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
7974 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
7976 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
7977 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
7978 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
7979 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
7980 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
7981 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
7982 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
7983 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
7984 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
7985 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
7989 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
7990 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
7991 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
7993 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
7994 without support for deprecated functions.
7995 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
7997 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
7998 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
7999 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
8000 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
8001 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
8002 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
8003 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
8004 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
8005 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
8006 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
8007 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
8008 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
8009 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
8010 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
8011 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
8012 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
8013 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
8014 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
8015 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
8016 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
8017 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
8018 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
8019 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
8021 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
8022 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
8023 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
8024 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
8025 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
8026 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
8028 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
8029 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
8030 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
8031 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
8032 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
8034 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
8035 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
8036 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
8038 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
8039 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
8042 o Deprecated and removed features:
8043 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
8044 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
8045 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
8048 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8049 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
8050 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
8051 with log.h on Android.
8052 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
8053 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
8056 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
8057 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
8059 o New directory authorities:
8060 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
8064 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
8065 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
8066 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
8067 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
8068 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
8069 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8072 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
8073 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
8074 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
8075 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
8076 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
8077 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
8078 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
8079 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
8081 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
8082 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
8083 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
8084 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
8087 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
8088 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
8090 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
8091 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
8092 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
8093 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
8094 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
8095 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
8096 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
8097 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
8098 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
8099 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
8100 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
8101 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
8102 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
8103 Implements proposal 148.
8104 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
8105 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
8106 system to do it for us.
8107 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
8108 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
8109 this fix will be slightly helpful.
8110 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
8111 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
8112 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
8113 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
8114 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
8115 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
8116 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
8117 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
8118 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
8121 o Minor features (controller):
8122 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
8123 been fetched and validated.
8124 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
8125 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
8126 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
8127 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
8128 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
8129 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
8132 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
8133 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8134 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
8135 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
8136 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
8138 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
8139 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
8140 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
8141 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
8142 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
8143 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
8144 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
8145 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
8146 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
8148 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8149 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
8150 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
8151 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
8152 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
8153 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
8154 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
8155 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
8157 o Deprecated and removed features:
8158 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
8160 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
8161 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
8162 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
8164 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8165 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
8166 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
8168 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
8169 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
8170 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
8171 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
8172 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
8173 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
8176 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
8177 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
8178 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
8179 fixes a variety of other issues.
8182 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
8183 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
8184 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
8185 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
8188 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
8189 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
8190 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
8191 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
8194 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
8195 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8196 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
8200 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
8202 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
8203 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
8204 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
8205 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
8206 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
8207 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
8208 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
8210 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
8211 rest, and don't automatically fail.
8212 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
8213 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8214 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
8215 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
8217 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
8218 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
8219 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
8220 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
8221 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
8222 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
8223 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
8224 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
8225 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
8226 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
8228 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
8232 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
8233 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
8234 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
8236 o Minor features (controller):
8237 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
8241 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
8242 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
8243 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
8244 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
8245 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
8246 variety of other issues.
8249 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
8250 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
8251 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
8252 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
8253 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
8254 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
8255 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
8256 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
8257 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
8258 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
8259 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
8260 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
8263 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
8264 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8266 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
8267 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
8268 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
8269 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
8270 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
8271 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
8272 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8273 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
8274 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
8275 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
8276 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
8277 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
8278 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
8279 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
8280 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
8284 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
8285 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
8286 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
8287 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
8288 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
8289 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
8290 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
8291 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
8292 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
8293 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
8294 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
8295 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
8296 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
8297 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
8298 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
8299 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
8300 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
8301 list. It has been gone for many months.
8302 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
8303 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
8304 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
8307 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8308 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
8309 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
8312 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
8313 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
8314 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
8315 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
8316 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
8317 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
8318 variety of other issues.
8321 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
8322 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
8323 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
8324 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
8325 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
8326 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
8327 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
8328 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
8329 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
8330 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
8331 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
8332 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
8333 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
8334 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
8337 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
8338 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
8339 Suggested by Lucky Green.
8340 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
8341 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
8342 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
8343 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
8344 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
8345 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
8347 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
8348 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
8350 o Hidden service performance improvements:
8351 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
8352 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
8353 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
8354 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
8355 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
8356 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
8357 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
8358 faster after restart.
8361 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
8362 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
8363 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
8364 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
8365 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
8366 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
8367 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
8368 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
8369 840. Patch from rovv.
8370 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
8371 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
8372 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
8373 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
8374 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
8375 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
8376 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
8377 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
8378 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
8380 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
8381 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
8382 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
8383 have already been marked for close.
8384 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
8385 introduction points.
8386 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
8387 memory performance during directory parsing.
8388 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
8389 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
8390 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
8391 because of a pending download.
8394 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
8395 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
8396 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
8397 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
8400 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
8401 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
8402 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
8403 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
8404 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
8405 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
8406 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
8407 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
8408 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
8409 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
8410 lookups more reliable.
8411 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
8412 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
8413 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
8414 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
8415 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
8416 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
8417 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
8420 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
8421 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
8422 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8423 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
8424 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
8425 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
8426 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
8427 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
8428 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
8429 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
8430 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
8432 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
8433 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
8434 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
8435 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
8436 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
8437 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8438 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
8439 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
8440 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8443 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
8444 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
8445 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
8446 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
8447 locked down these days.
8448 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
8449 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
8450 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
8451 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
8452 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
8454 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
8455 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
8456 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
8457 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
8458 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
8459 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
8460 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
8461 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
8462 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
8463 people find host:port too confusing.
8464 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
8465 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
8466 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
8469 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8471 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
8472 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
8473 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
8474 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
8475 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
8477 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
8478 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
8479 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
8480 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
8481 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
8482 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
8483 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
8484 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
8485 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
8486 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
8487 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
8488 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
8490 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
8491 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
8492 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
8493 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
8494 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
8495 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
8496 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
8497 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
8498 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
8500 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
8501 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
8502 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
8503 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
8504 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
8505 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
8506 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
8507 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
8508 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
8509 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
8510 bug 820, reported by seeess.
8511 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
8512 list. It has been gone for many months.
8514 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8515 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
8516 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
8517 actual mistakes we're making here.
8518 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
8519 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
8520 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
8521 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
8524 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
8525 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
8526 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
8527 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
8530 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
8531 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
8532 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
8533 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
8534 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
8535 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
8537 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
8538 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
8539 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
8540 pointed out by rovv.
8543 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
8544 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8545 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
8546 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
8547 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
8548 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
8549 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
8550 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
8551 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
8552 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8553 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
8554 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
8555 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
8556 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
8557 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
8558 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
8559 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
8560 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
8561 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
8562 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
8563 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
8566 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
8567 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
8568 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
8569 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
8570 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
8571 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
8572 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
8575 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
8577 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
8578 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
8579 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
8580 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
8581 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
8582 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
8583 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
8585 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
8586 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
8587 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
8588 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
8589 known descriptor before building circuits.
8591 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
8592 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
8593 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
8594 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
8595 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
8596 identify a connection.
8597 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
8598 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
8599 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
8601 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
8602 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
8603 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
8604 pointed out by rovv.
8607 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
8608 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8609 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
8610 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
8611 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
8612 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
8613 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
8614 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
8615 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
8616 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
8617 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
8618 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
8619 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
8620 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
8621 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8624 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
8625 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
8626 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
8627 answer sections match.
8628 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
8629 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
8632 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
8633 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
8636 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
8637 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
8638 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
8640 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
8641 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
8642 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
8645 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
8646 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
8647 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
8648 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
8652 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
8653 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
8656 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
8657 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
8658 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
8659 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
8660 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
8661 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
8663 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
8664 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
8665 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
8668 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
8669 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
8670 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
8671 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
8672 be sent using an "early" cell.
8675 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
8676 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
8677 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
8678 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
8679 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
8680 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
8681 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
8684 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
8685 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
8686 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
8687 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
8688 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
8689 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
8690 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
8691 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
8692 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
8693 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
8694 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
8695 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
8696 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
8697 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
8698 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
8699 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
8702 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
8703 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
8704 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
8705 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
8706 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
8707 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
8708 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
8709 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
8710 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
8712 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
8713 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
8714 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
8715 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
8716 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
8719 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8720 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
8721 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
8722 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
8725 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
8726 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
8730 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
8732 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
8733 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
8734 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
8737 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
8738 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
8739 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
8742 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
8743 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
8744 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
8745 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
8746 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8747 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
8748 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
8749 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
8750 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8751 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
8752 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
8753 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
8754 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
8755 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
8756 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
8757 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
8758 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
8759 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
8760 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
8761 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
8762 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
8763 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
8764 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
8767 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
8768 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
8770 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
8771 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
8772 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
8773 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
8774 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
8775 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
8776 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
8778 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
8779 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
8780 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
8781 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
8782 found by Geoff Goodell.
8785 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
8786 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
8787 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
8788 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
8789 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
8790 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
8793 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
8794 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
8795 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
8798 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
8799 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
8800 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
8801 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
8802 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8803 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
8804 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
8805 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
8806 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8807 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
8808 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
8809 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
8810 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
8811 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
8814 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
8815 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
8816 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
8818 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
8819 fingerprints with or without space.
8820 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
8821 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
8822 partway through and wants to catch up.
8823 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
8824 state to start out in.
8827 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
8828 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
8829 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8830 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
8831 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
8834 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
8835 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
8836 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
8837 some of the connection attempts fail.
8838 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
8839 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
8840 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
8841 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
8842 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
8843 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
8845 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
8846 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
8847 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
8850 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
8851 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
8852 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
8853 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
8854 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
8855 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
8856 and adds a variety of smaller features.
8859 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
8860 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
8861 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
8862 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
8864 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
8865 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
8866 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
8867 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
8869 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
8870 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
8871 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
8872 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
8873 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
8874 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
8875 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
8878 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
8879 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
8880 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
8881 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
8882 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
8884 o Memory fixes and improvements:
8885 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
8886 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
8887 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
8888 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
8889 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
8890 on a typical directory cache.
8891 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
8892 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
8893 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
8894 and may reduce fragmentation.
8895 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
8896 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
8897 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
8899 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
8900 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
8901 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
8903 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
8904 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
8908 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
8909 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
8910 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
8911 done that for a long time.
8912 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
8913 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
8914 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
8915 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
8918 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
8919 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
8920 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
8921 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
8922 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
8923 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
8925 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
8926 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
8927 output to messages of warning and error severity.
8928 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
8929 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
8930 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
8931 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
8932 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
8933 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
8934 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
8935 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
8936 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
8937 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
8938 directory requests we should expect to see.
8939 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
8941 - Lots of new unit tests.
8942 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
8943 two parallel lists in lockstep.
8946 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
8947 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
8948 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
8951 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
8952 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
8953 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
8954 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
8955 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
8956 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
8957 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
8960 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
8961 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
8962 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
8966 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
8967 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
8968 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
8971 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
8972 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
8973 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
8975 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
8976 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
8978 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
8979 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
8980 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
8981 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
8982 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8983 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
8984 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
8986 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
8987 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
8988 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
8989 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
8990 - Fix compile on Windows.
8993 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
8994 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
8995 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
8996 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
8997 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
8998 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
8999 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
9002 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
9003 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
9006 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
9007 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
9008 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
9009 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
9011 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
9012 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
9013 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
9016 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
9017 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
9018 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
9019 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
9023 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
9024 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
9025 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
9026 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
9028 o Major security fixes:
9029 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
9030 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
9031 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
9032 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
9033 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
9036 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
9037 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9040 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
9041 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
9044 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
9045 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
9048 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
9049 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
9050 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
9053 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
9054 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9057 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
9058 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
9059 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
9060 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
9061 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
9063 o New directory authorities:
9064 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
9065 it has been down for months.
9066 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
9070 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
9071 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
9073 o Minor features (security):
9074 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
9075 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
9076 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
9079 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
9080 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
9081 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
9082 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
9083 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
9084 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
9085 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
9086 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
9087 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
9089 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
9090 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
9091 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
9092 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
9093 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
9094 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
9095 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9096 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
9097 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
9099 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
9100 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
9101 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
9102 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
9103 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
9104 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
9105 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
9106 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
9107 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
9108 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
9109 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9110 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
9111 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
9112 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
9113 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
9114 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
9115 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
9116 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
9117 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
9120 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
9121 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
9122 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
9123 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
9126 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
9127 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
9128 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
9129 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
9132 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
9133 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
9134 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
9135 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
9136 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
9139 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
9140 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
9141 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
9142 certain censored countries by default again.
9145 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
9146 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9147 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
9148 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
9149 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9150 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
9151 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
9152 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
9154 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
9155 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
9156 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
9157 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
9158 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
9159 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
9160 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
9161 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
9162 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
9163 a directory. Fix from lodger.
9165 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
9166 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
9167 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
9168 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
9169 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
9170 RelayBandwidth* values.
9171 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
9172 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
9173 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
9174 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
9175 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
9176 get_interface_address6().
9177 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
9178 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
9179 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
9181 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
9182 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
9183 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
9184 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9185 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
9186 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
9187 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
9188 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
9189 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
9190 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9193 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
9194 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
9195 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
9198 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
9199 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
9200 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
9201 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
9202 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
9205 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
9206 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
9207 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
9208 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
9209 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
9210 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
9211 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
9212 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
9213 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
9216 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
9217 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
9218 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
9219 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9222 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
9223 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
9224 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
9225 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
9226 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
9227 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
9228 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
9231 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
9232 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
9233 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
9234 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
9235 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
9236 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
9237 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
9239 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
9240 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
9241 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
9242 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
9243 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
9246 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
9247 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
9249 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
9250 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
9251 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
9252 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9253 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
9254 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
9255 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
9256 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
9257 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
9258 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
9259 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
9260 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
9261 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9262 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
9263 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9264 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9265 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
9266 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
9267 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
9268 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
9269 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
9270 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
9271 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
9273 o Minor features (performance):
9274 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
9276 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
9277 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
9278 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
9279 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
9280 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
9281 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
9282 non-system include paths.
9283 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
9284 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
9287 o Minor features (other):
9288 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
9290 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
9291 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
9292 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
9295 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
9296 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
9297 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
9298 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
9300 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
9301 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
9302 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
9303 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
9305 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
9306 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
9307 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9308 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
9309 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9311 o Minor bugfixes (other):
9312 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
9313 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
9314 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
9315 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
9316 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
9317 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
9318 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
9319 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
9320 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
9321 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
9322 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
9323 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
9324 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
9325 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
9326 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9327 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
9328 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
9329 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
9330 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
9331 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
9332 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
9333 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
9334 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
9335 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
9338 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9339 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
9340 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
9344 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
9345 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
9346 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
9347 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
9348 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
9351 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
9352 Tor's x509 certificates.
9355 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
9356 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
9357 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9358 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
9359 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
9360 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9362 o Minor features (security):
9363 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
9364 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
9366 o Minor features (directory authority):
9367 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
9368 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
9369 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
9370 bandwidthburst values.
9372 o Minor features (controller):
9373 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
9374 processes from running us out of memory.
9376 o Minor features (misc):
9377 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
9378 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
9379 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
9380 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
9382 o Deprecated features (controller):
9383 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
9384 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
9385 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
9388 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
9389 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
9391 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
9392 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
9393 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9394 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
9395 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
9396 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9397 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
9398 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
9400 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
9401 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9402 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
9403 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9404 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
9405 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
9406 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
9407 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
9409 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
9410 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
9411 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
9412 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
9413 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9414 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
9415 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9416 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
9417 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9418 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
9419 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
9420 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9422 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9423 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
9425 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
9426 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
9427 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
9428 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
9429 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
9430 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
9433 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
9434 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
9435 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
9436 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
9437 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
9439 o New directory authorities:
9440 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
9444 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
9445 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
9446 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
9447 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
9448 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
9449 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
9450 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
9451 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
9455 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
9456 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
9457 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
9458 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
9459 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
9460 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
9461 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
9462 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
9463 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
9464 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
9467 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
9468 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
9469 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
9470 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
9474 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
9475 the request isn't encrypted.
9476 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
9477 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
9478 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
9479 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
9480 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
9483 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
9484 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
9487 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
9490 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
9491 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
9492 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
9494 o New directory authorities:
9495 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
9498 o Major performance improvements:
9499 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
9500 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
9501 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
9502 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
9503 memory fragmentation.
9506 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
9507 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
9508 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
9509 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
9510 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
9511 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
9512 bodies when they receive them.
9513 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
9514 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
9515 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
9517 o Minor performance improvements:
9518 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
9519 of them were actually distinct.
9520 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
9521 interested in a given message.
9524 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
9525 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
9526 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
9527 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
9528 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
9529 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
9530 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
9531 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
9532 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
9533 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
9534 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
9536 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
9537 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
9538 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
9539 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
9540 this country" and "1 person from this country".
9541 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
9542 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
9543 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
9544 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
9545 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
9547 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
9548 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
9549 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
9551 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
9552 but client versions are not.
9553 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
9554 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
9556 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
9557 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
9558 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
9559 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
9560 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
9562 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
9563 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
9564 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
9567 o Minor features (controller):
9568 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
9569 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
9570 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
9571 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
9573 o Minor features (directory authorities):
9574 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
9575 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
9576 running a test network on a single host.
9577 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
9578 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
9580 o Minor features (bridges):
9581 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
9582 unencrypted connections.
9584 o Minor features (other):
9585 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
9586 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
9587 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
9588 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
9591 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
9592 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
9593 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
9594 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
9597 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
9598 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
9599 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
9600 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
9604 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
9605 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
9606 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
9607 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
9608 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
9609 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
9610 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
9611 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
9612 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
9613 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
9614 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
9615 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
9618 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
9619 rebuild our server descriptor.
9620 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
9621 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
9622 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
9623 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
9624 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
9625 nonstandard integer types.
9626 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
9627 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
9628 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
9629 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
9630 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
9632 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
9633 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
9634 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
9635 when they receive them.
9636 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
9637 This includes some 64-bit systems.
9638 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
9639 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
9640 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
9641 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
9642 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
9643 router_get_by_hexdigest().
9644 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
9645 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
9649 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
9650 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
9651 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
9654 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
9655 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
9656 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
9657 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
9658 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
9659 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
9660 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
9661 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9664 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
9665 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
9666 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
9667 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
9669 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
9670 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
9673 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
9674 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
9677 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
9679 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
9680 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
9682 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
9683 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
9684 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
9685 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9686 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
9687 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
9688 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
9689 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
9690 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
9691 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
9695 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
9696 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
9697 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
9700 - Make the unit tests build again.
9701 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
9702 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
9703 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
9704 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
9705 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
9706 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9707 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
9708 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
9709 the next one as a duplicate.
9712 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
9713 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
9714 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
9715 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
9718 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
9719 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
9720 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
9723 o New directory authorities:
9724 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
9728 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
9729 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
9730 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
9731 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
9732 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
9733 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
9734 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
9736 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
9737 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
9739 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
9740 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
9741 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
9742 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
9743 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
9744 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
9746 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
9747 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
9748 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
9749 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
9750 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
9751 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9754 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
9755 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
9756 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
9757 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
9758 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
9759 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
9760 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
9761 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
9762 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
9763 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
9764 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
9765 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
9766 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
9767 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
9768 where Tor is blocked.
9769 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
9770 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
9771 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
9772 to a file periodically.
9773 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
9774 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
9775 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
9779 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
9780 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
9781 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
9782 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
9783 in the relevant networkstatus document.
9784 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
9785 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
9786 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
9787 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
9788 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
9789 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
9790 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
9792 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
9793 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
9794 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
9795 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
9796 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
9797 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9798 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
9799 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
9800 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
9801 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9802 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
9803 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
9804 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
9805 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9806 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
9807 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
9808 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
9809 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
9810 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
9811 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9812 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9813 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
9814 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9815 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
9816 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
9817 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
9818 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
9819 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9822 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
9823 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
9824 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
9825 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
9826 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
9827 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
9828 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
9829 even if your DirPort isn't on.
9830 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
9831 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
9832 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
9834 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
9835 multiple controller passwords.
9836 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
9837 router based on the router's purpose.
9838 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
9839 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
9840 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
9841 the approved-routers file.
9844 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
9845 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
9846 well as a few minor bugs.
9849 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
9850 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
9851 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
9853 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
9854 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
9855 rebuild our server descriptor.
9857 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
9858 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
9859 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
9860 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
9861 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
9862 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
9863 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
9864 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
9865 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
9866 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
9868 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
9869 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
9870 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
9871 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
9872 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
9873 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
9874 then be flexible about families.
9877 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
9878 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
9879 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
9883 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
9884 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
9885 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
9886 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
9887 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
9890 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
9891 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
9892 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
9893 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
9894 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9897 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
9898 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
9900 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
9901 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
9902 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
9903 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
9904 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
9905 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
9906 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
9908 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
9909 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
9910 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
9911 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
9914 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
9915 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
9918 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
9919 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
9920 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9923 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
9924 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
9925 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
9926 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
9927 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
9928 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
9929 addresses many more minor issues.
9931 o New directory authorities:
9932 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
9935 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
9936 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
9937 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
9938 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
9940 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
9941 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
9942 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
9943 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
9944 and are reaching it.
9945 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
9946 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
9947 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
9948 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
9949 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
9950 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
9953 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
9954 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
9956 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
9957 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
9958 no longer work for clients.
9959 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
9960 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
9962 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
9963 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
9964 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
9965 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
9966 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
9967 enough directory information to build a circuit.
9968 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
9969 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
9970 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
9971 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
9972 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
9973 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
9975 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
9976 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
9977 requests for all of them.
9978 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
9980 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
9981 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
9982 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
9985 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
9986 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
9990 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
9991 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
9992 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
9993 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
9994 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
9995 networkstatuses that we already have.
9996 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
9997 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
9998 we start knowing some directory caches.
9999 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
10000 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
10001 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
10002 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
10003 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
10004 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
10005 Good in combination with --hash-password.
10006 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
10007 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
10009 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
10010 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
10011 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
10013 o Minor features (bridges):
10014 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
10015 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
10016 back to trying the bridge directly.
10017 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
10018 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
10020 o Minor features (controller):
10021 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
10022 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
10023 report the value as a "minimum skew."
10026 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
10027 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
10031 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
10032 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
10033 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
10034 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
10035 reported by tup and ioerror.
10036 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
10037 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
10039 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
10040 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
10042 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
10043 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
10044 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
10046 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
10047 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10048 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
10049 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10050 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
10051 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10052 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
10054 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
10055 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
10056 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10058 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
10059 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
10060 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
10061 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
10062 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
10065 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
10066 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
10067 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
10068 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
10069 lists for a few hours each day.
10071 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
10072 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
10073 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
10074 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
10075 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
10076 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
10077 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
10078 rend_process_relay_cell().
10080 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
10081 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
10082 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
10083 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
10084 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
10085 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
10086 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
10087 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
10089 o Major bugfixes (other):
10090 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
10091 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
10092 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
10093 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
10094 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
10095 circuit cannibalization).
10096 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
10097 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
10098 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
10099 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
10100 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
10101 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
10104 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
10105 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
10107 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
10108 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
10109 absent. Resolves bug 467.
10110 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
10111 a way to trigger this remotely.)
10112 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
10113 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
10114 were reporting the dir port.)
10115 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
10116 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
10117 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
10118 the future. Fixes bug 434.
10119 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
10121 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
10122 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
10123 the onion key from getting rotated.
10124 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
10125 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
10126 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
10127 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
10128 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
10129 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
10130 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
10131 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
10132 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
10135 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
10136 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
10137 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
10138 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
10139 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
10140 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
10142 o Major features (directory system):
10143 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
10144 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
10145 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
10146 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
10147 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
10148 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
10149 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
10150 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
10151 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
10152 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
10153 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
10154 Partially implements proposal 122.
10155 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
10156 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
10159 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
10160 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
10161 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
10162 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
10164 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
10165 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
10166 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
10167 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
10168 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
10169 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10170 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
10171 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
10172 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10174 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
10175 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
10177 - Allow certificates to include an address.
10178 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
10179 and download operations.
10180 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
10181 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
10182 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
10183 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
10184 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
10185 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
10187 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
10188 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
10191 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
10192 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
10193 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
10194 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
10196 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
10197 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
10198 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
10200 o Minor features (performance):
10201 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
10202 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
10203 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
10204 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
10205 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
10206 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
10207 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
10210 o Minor features (compilation):
10211 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
10212 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
10214 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
10215 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
10216 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
10217 stick around indefinitely.
10218 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
10220 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
10221 v3 directory authority.
10222 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
10223 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
10225 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
10226 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
10227 "moria on moria:9031."
10228 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
10229 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
10230 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
10231 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
10232 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
10233 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
10234 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
10235 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
10237 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
10238 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
10239 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
10240 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
10241 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
10242 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
10243 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
10244 downloads than for other types.
10246 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
10247 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
10249 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
10250 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
10251 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10253 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10254 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
10255 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10256 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
10257 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
10258 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
10259 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
10260 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
10262 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
10263 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
10264 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
10265 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
10266 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
10267 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
10268 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
10269 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10270 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
10271 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
10272 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
10274 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
10275 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
10278 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10279 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
10280 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
10281 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
10282 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
10283 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
10284 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
10285 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
10286 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
10287 so that they all take the same named flags.
10290 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
10291 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
10292 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
10295 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
10296 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
10297 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
10298 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
10299 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
10300 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
10302 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
10303 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
10304 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
10305 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
10306 annotations along with descriptors.
10307 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
10308 source, and its purpose.
10309 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
10311 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
10312 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
10313 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
10314 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
10317 o Major features (directory authorities):
10318 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
10320 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
10321 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
10322 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
10323 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
10324 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
10325 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
10327 o Major features (v3 directory system):
10328 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
10329 and download the descriptors listed in them.
10330 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
10331 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
10332 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
10334 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
10335 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
10336 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
10337 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
10340 o Major bugfixes (performance):
10341 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
10342 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
10343 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
10344 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
10346 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
10347 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
10348 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
10349 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
10350 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
10351 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
10353 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
10354 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
10356 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
10357 certificate is requested.
10358 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
10359 certificate requests.
10361 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
10362 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
10363 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
10364 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
10367 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10368 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
10369 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
10370 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10372 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
10373 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
10375 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
10376 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
10377 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
10378 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
10379 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
10380 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
10381 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
10382 downloads more sensible.
10383 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
10384 another when serving certificates.
10386 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
10387 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
10388 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
10389 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
10391 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
10392 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
10393 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
10395 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
10396 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
10398 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10399 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
10400 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
10401 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
10402 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
10404 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
10405 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
10406 WARN-severity events.
10407 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
10408 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
10409 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
10411 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
10412 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
10413 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
10415 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
10416 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
10417 circuit cannibalization).
10419 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10420 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
10421 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
10422 new module, networkstatus.c.
10423 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
10424 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
10425 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
10426 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
10427 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
10428 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
10429 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
10430 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
10431 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
10433 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
10435 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
10436 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
10439 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
10440 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
10441 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
10442 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
10444 o New directory authorities:
10445 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
10446 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
10448 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
10449 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
10450 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10452 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
10453 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
10454 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
10455 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
10456 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
10457 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
10458 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
10459 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
10460 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
10461 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
10462 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10464 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
10465 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
10466 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
10467 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
10468 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
10469 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
10470 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
10471 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
10472 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
10474 o Minor features (security):
10475 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
10476 address maps to an internal address space.
10477 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
10478 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
10480 o Minor features (guard nodes):
10481 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
10482 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
10483 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
10484 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
10486 o Minor features (speed):
10487 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
10488 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
10489 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
10490 on big-endian hosts.)
10492 o Minor features (controller):
10493 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
10494 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
10495 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
10496 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
10499 o Removed features:
10500 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
10501 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
10502 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
10503 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
10504 implementation of proposal 104.
10505 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
10506 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
10507 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
10508 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
10509 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
10510 patch from Karsten Loesing.
10511 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
10512 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
10515 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
10516 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
10517 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10518 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
10519 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10520 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
10521 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10522 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
10523 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
10524 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10525 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
10526 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
10527 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
10528 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10529 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
10530 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
10531 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
10532 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10533 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
10534 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
10536 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10537 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
10538 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
10540 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
10541 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
10542 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
10543 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
10546 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
10547 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
10548 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
10549 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
10550 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
10553 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
10554 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
10557 o Major bugfixes (security):
10558 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
10559 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
10560 become more of a headache than it's worth.
10562 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
10563 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
10564 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
10566 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
10567 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
10568 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
10569 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
10570 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
10571 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
10573 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
10574 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
10575 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
10576 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
10577 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
10579 o Minor features (controller):
10580 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
10581 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
10582 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
10583 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
10585 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
10586 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
10587 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
10588 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
10589 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
10590 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
10591 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
10592 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
10594 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
10595 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
10596 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
10597 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
10598 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
10599 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
10600 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
10601 if we ran off the end of the list.
10602 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
10603 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
10604 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
10605 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
10606 every time we change any piece of our config.
10607 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
10608 encourage people using them to stop.
10609 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
10611 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
10612 servers to choose a circuit.
10613 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
10614 unparseable piece of it.
10617 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
10618 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
10619 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
10620 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
10623 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
10624 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
10625 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
10626 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
10627 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
10629 o New directory authorities:
10630 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
10633 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
10634 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
10635 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
10636 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
10638 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
10639 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
10640 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
10642 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
10643 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
10644 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
10645 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
10646 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
10647 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
10649 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
10650 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
10651 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10654 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
10655 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
10656 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
10657 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
10661 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
10662 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
10663 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
10664 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
10666 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
10667 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
10669 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
10670 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
10671 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
10672 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
10673 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
10674 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
10675 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10676 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
10677 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10678 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
10681 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
10682 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
10683 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
10684 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
10685 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
10686 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
10688 o Removed features:
10689 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
10690 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
10691 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
10692 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
10695 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
10696 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
10697 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
10698 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
10699 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
10702 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
10703 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
10704 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
10705 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
10706 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
10707 reported by lodger.
10709 o Minor features (directory servers):
10710 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
10711 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
10713 o Minor features (directory voting):
10714 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
10717 o Minor features (security):
10718 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
10719 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
10720 encourage people using them to stop.
10722 o Minor features (controller):
10723 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
10724 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
10725 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
10726 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
10727 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
10728 cookie authentication file, and config option
10729 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
10731 o Minor features (unit testing):
10732 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
10733 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
10734 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
10735 logging for the unit tests.
10737 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
10738 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
10739 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
10740 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
10741 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
10742 every time we change any piece of our config.
10743 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
10744 the future. Fixes bug 434.
10745 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
10747 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
10748 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
10749 the onion key from getting rotated.
10750 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
10751 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
10752 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
10755 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
10756 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
10757 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
10759 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
10760 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
10761 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
10762 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
10765 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
10766 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
10767 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
10768 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
10769 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
10770 TorK, etc. Or worse.
10772 o Major security fixes:
10773 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
10774 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
10777 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
10778 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
10779 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
10780 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
10782 o Major security fixes:
10783 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
10784 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
10786 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
10787 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
10790 o Minor features (performance):
10791 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
10792 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
10793 performance-intensive.
10794 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
10795 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
10796 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
10797 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
10798 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
10799 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
10803 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
10804 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
10805 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
10806 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
10810 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
10811 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
10812 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
10813 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
10814 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
10816 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
10817 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
10818 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
10819 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
10821 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
10822 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
10823 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
10824 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
10825 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
10827 o Major features (experimental):
10828 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
10829 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
10830 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
10831 handling before it's ready for use.
10834 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
10835 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
10836 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
10837 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
10838 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
10839 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
10841 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
10842 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
10843 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
10844 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
10845 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
10847 o Major bugfixes (directory):
10848 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
10849 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
10851 o Minor features (controller):
10852 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
10853 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
10854 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
10855 from Robert Hogan.)
10856 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
10857 from Robert Hogan.)
10858 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
10859 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
10861 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
10862 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
10863 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
10864 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
10865 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
10866 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
10867 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
10870 o Minor features (misc):
10871 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
10873 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
10874 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
10875 the authority identity key.
10876 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
10878 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
10879 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
10880 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
10883 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
10884 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
10885 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
10886 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
10887 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
10888 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
10889 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
10890 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
10892 o Performance improvements:
10893 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
10895 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
10896 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
10899 o Deprecated and removed features:
10900 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
10901 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
10902 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
10903 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
10905 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
10906 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
10907 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
10908 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
10909 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
10910 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
10911 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
10912 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
10913 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
10916 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
10917 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
10918 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
10919 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
10920 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
10922 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
10923 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
10926 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10927 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
10928 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
10929 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
10930 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
10931 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
10932 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
10933 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
10934 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
10937 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
10938 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
10939 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
10940 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
10942 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
10943 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
10945 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
10946 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
10947 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
10948 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
10949 routerlist while inserting a new router.
10950 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
10951 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
10953 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
10954 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
10955 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
10957 o Major bugfixes (security):
10958 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
10960 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
10961 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
10962 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
10963 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
10964 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
10965 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
10966 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
10967 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
10968 guard list unless we need to.
10970 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
10971 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
10972 don't get overused as guards.
10974 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
10975 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
10976 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
10977 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
10978 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
10980 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10981 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
10982 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
10985 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
10986 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
10987 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
10988 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
10989 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
10990 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
10991 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
10992 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
10995 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
10996 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
10997 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
10998 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
11000 o Minor features (directory):
11001 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
11002 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
11003 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
11004 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
11006 o Minor build issues:
11007 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
11008 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
11009 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
11010 in the tarball, not as "x".
11013 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
11014 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
11015 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
11016 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
11017 forward on a lot of fronts.
11019 o Major features, server usability:
11020 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
11021 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
11022 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
11023 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
11025 o Major features, client usability:
11026 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
11027 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
11028 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
11029 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
11030 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
11031 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
11032 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
11033 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
11035 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
11036 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
11037 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
11038 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
11039 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
11040 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
11042 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
11043 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
11044 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
11046 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
11047 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
11048 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
11049 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
11050 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
11052 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
11053 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
11054 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
11055 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
11057 o Major features, other:
11058 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
11059 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
11060 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
11061 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
11062 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
11065 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
11066 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
11067 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
11070 o Minor fixes (resource management):
11071 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
11072 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
11073 our allocated connection limit.
11074 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
11075 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
11076 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
11077 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
11078 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
11080 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
11081 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
11082 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
11084 o Minor features (build):
11085 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
11086 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
11087 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
11088 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
11090 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
11091 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
11092 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
11093 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
11094 Use this version consistently in log messages.
11096 o Minor features (logging):
11097 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
11098 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
11099 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
11100 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
11101 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
11104 o Minor features (directory system):
11105 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
11106 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
11107 not to serve V2 directory information.
11108 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
11109 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
11110 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
11112 o Minor features (controller):
11113 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
11114 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
11116 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
11117 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
11118 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
11119 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
11120 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
11121 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
11123 o Minor features (hidden services):
11124 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
11125 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
11126 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
11127 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
11129 o Minor features (other):
11131 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
11132 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
11133 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
11134 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
11135 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
11136 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
11137 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
11138 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
11139 longer a completely silly thing to do.
11140 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
11141 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
11142 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
11143 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
11145 o Removed features:
11146 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
11147 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
11148 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
11149 back an error and close the connection.
11150 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
11151 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
11154 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11155 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
11156 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
11157 makes the log messages nicer.
11158 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
11159 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
11160 partial results on small file reads.
11162 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
11163 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
11164 more often than they are allowed to appear.
11165 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
11166 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
11168 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11169 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
11170 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
11171 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
11173 o Minor bugfixes (other):
11174 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
11175 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
11176 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
11177 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
11178 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
11179 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
11180 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
11181 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
11182 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
11183 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
11185 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
11186 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
11187 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
11189 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
11190 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
11191 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
11192 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
11194 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11195 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
11196 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
11198 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
11199 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
11202 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11203 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
11204 implicit in other procedure arguments.
11205 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
11206 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
11207 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
11208 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
11209 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
11210 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
11211 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
11212 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
11213 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
11216 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
11217 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
11218 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
11219 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
11221 o Directory authority changes:
11222 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
11223 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
11224 or use hidden services.
11226 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
11227 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
11228 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
11229 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
11230 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
11231 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
11232 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
11233 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
11234 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
11237 o Major bugfixes (security):
11238 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
11239 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
11240 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
11242 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
11243 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
11244 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
11245 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
11246 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
11247 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
11248 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
11249 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
11250 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
11251 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
11254 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
11255 purpose=controller.
11256 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
11257 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
11259 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
11260 having a hard time downloading.
11261 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
11262 partial results on small file reads.
11263 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
11264 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
11265 the gaps in the store get very large.
11268 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
11269 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
11271 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
11272 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
11275 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
11276 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
11277 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
11278 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
11279 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
11280 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
11282 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
11283 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
11284 free speech on the Internet.
11287 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
11288 get one we don't recognize.
11289 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
11290 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
11293 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
11295 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
11296 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
11297 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
11298 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
11301 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
11302 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
11305 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
11306 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
11307 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
11308 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
11309 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
11310 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
11311 ask for GUARDS too.
11314 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
11315 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
11316 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
11317 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
11318 on Win98 and friends again.
11320 o Minor bugfixes (other):
11321 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
11322 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
11325 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
11326 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
11327 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
11328 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
11329 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
11330 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
11331 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
11332 and maybe also bug 397.)
11334 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
11335 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
11336 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
11338 o Minor bugfixes (server):
11339 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
11342 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
11343 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
11344 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
11345 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
11346 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
11348 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11349 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
11350 load on authorities.
11352 o Minor bugfixes (other):
11353 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
11354 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
11355 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
11357 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
11359 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
11360 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
11361 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
11362 the last of bug 326.)
11363 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
11364 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
11368 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
11369 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
11370 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
11371 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
11372 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
11373 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
11374 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
11376 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
11377 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
11379 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
11380 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
11381 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
11383 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
11384 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
11385 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
11387 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11388 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
11389 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
11390 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
11392 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
11393 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
11395 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
11396 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
11397 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
11400 o Minor bugfixes (other):
11401 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
11402 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
11403 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
11404 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
11405 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
11406 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
11407 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
11408 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
11409 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
11410 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
11411 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
11412 other than file-not-found.
11413 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
11414 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
11415 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
11416 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
11417 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
11418 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
11419 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
11420 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
11421 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
11422 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
11423 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
11424 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
11425 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
11426 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
11427 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
11429 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
11431 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
11432 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
11434 o Minor features (controller):
11435 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
11436 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
11437 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
11439 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
11440 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
11441 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
11442 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
11443 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
11444 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
11445 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
11446 connected or resolved cell.
11448 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
11449 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
11450 some profiles, but not others.)
11451 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
11452 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
11453 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
11456 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
11458 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
11459 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
11460 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
11461 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
11462 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
11463 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
11464 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
11465 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
11466 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
11467 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
11468 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
11469 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
11470 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
11471 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
11472 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
11474 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
11477 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
11478 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
11479 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
11480 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
11481 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
11482 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
11483 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
11485 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
11486 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
11487 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
11488 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
11489 buckets go absurdly negative.
11490 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
11491 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
11494 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
11495 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
11496 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
11497 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
11498 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
11499 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
11500 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
11501 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
11504 o Major bugfixes (other):
11505 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
11506 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
11507 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
11508 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
11510 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
11512 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
11513 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
11515 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
11516 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
11517 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
11518 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
11519 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
11520 to wait for 0.2.0.)
11522 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
11523 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
11524 possible memory-stomping bugs.
11525 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
11526 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
11528 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
11529 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
11530 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
11531 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
11532 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
11533 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
11535 o Minor bugfixes (other):
11536 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
11537 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
11538 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
11540 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
11541 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
11542 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
11543 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
11544 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
11545 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
11546 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
11547 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
11548 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
11549 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
11550 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
11551 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
11552 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
11554 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
11555 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
11556 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
11557 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
11558 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
11559 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
11560 to the resulting address.
11563 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
11564 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
11565 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
11566 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
11569 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
11570 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
11572 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
11573 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
11574 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
11575 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
11576 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
11577 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
11578 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
11579 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
11580 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
11581 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
11582 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
11583 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
11584 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
11585 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
11586 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
11587 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
11588 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
11591 o Minor features (controller):
11592 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
11593 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
11594 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
11595 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
11596 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
11597 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
11598 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
11602 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
11604 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
11605 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
11606 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
11607 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
11608 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
11609 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
11612 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
11613 weren't planning to resolve.
11614 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
11615 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
11616 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
11617 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
11618 the controller from learning about current events.
11620 o Minor features (more controller status events):
11621 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
11622 learn when our address changes.
11623 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
11624 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
11625 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
11626 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
11628 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
11629 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
11630 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
11631 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
11632 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
11633 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
11634 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
11635 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
11636 are accepted by a directory.
11637 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
11638 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
11639 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
11640 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
11641 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
11643 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
11644 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
11645 about changes to DNS server status.
11647 o Minor features (directory):
11648 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
11649 too much load to the exit nodes.
11652 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
11654 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
11655 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
11656 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
11657 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
11658 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
11660 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
11661 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
11662 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
11664 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
11665 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
11666 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
11667 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
11668 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
11669 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
11670 config options if you like.
11672 o Minor features (config and docs):
11673 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
11674 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
11675 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
11676 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
11677 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
11679 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
11680 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
11681 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
11682 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
11683 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
11685 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
11686 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
11687 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
11688 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
11689 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
11690 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
11691 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
11692 documentation: "make check-docs".
11693 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
11694 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
11696 o Minor features (DNS):
11697 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
11698 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
11699 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
11700 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
11701 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
11702 our tests for DNS hijacking.
11704 o Minor features (directory):
11705 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
11706 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
11707 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
11708 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
11709 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
11710 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
11711 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
11712 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
11713 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
11714 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
11715 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
11716 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
11717 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
11718 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
11719 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
11720 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
11721 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
11722 for the thing we're trying to download.
11723 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
11724 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
11725 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
11727 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
11728 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
11729 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
11732 o Minor features (controller):
11733 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
11734 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
11736 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
11737 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
11738 entry guard status as it changes.
11740 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
11741 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
11742 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
11743 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
11744 to set log options.
11745 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
11746 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
11747 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
11748 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
11751 o Major bugfixes (security):
11752 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
11753 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
11754 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
11755 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
11757 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
11758 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
11759 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
11760 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
11761 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
11763 o Major bugfixes (other):
11764 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
11765 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
11766 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
11767 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
11769 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
11770 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
11771 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
11772 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
11773 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
11774 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
11778 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
11779 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
11780 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
11781 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
11782 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
11784 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
11785 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
11787 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
11788 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
11789 family lists conveniently.
11790 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
11791 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
11792 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
11794 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
11795 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
11797 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
11798 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
11799 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
11800 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
11801 if their identity keys are as expected.
11802 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
11803 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
11804 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
11806 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11807 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
11808 reported by Mike Perry.
11809 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
11810 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
11811 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
11812 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
11815 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
11816 o Security bugfixes:
11817 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
11818 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
11819 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
11820 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
11824 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
11825 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
11826 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
11829 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
11831 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
11832 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
11833 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
11836 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
11837 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
11838 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
11839 watching for STREAM events.
11840 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
11841 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
11842 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
11843 operations, for profiling.
11846 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
11847 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
11848 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
11849 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
11850 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
11851 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
11853 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
11857 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
11858 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
11859 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
11860 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
11861 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
11863 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
11864 correctly in the Windows installer.
11865 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
11866 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
11867 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
11868 MIPSpro C compiler.
11869 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
11870 when we're running as a client.
11873 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
11875 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
11876 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
11877 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
11878 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
11879 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
11880 its circuits on demand.
11881 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
11882 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
11883 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
11884 connections more stable on average.
11885 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
11886 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
11887 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
11889 o Security bugfixes:
11890 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
11891 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
11894 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
11896 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
11897 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
11898 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
11899 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
11900 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
11901 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
11902 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
11903 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
11906 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
11908 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
11909 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
11910 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
11911 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
11912 routers for even longer.
11913 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
11914 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
11915 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
11916 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
11917 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
11918 caching HTTP proxies.
11919 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
11922 o Minor features, controller:
11923 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
11924 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
11925 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
11926 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
11928 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
11929 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
11930 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
11931 working much like those for circuit events.
11932 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
11933 about the current status of a router.
11934 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
11935 a router's status has changed.
11936 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
11937 can tell which events and features are supported.
11938 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
11939 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
11941 o Security bugfixes:
11942 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
11943 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
11946 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
11947 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
11948 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
11949 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
11950 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
11951 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
11952 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
11953 long nicknames where appropriate.
11954 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
11955 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
11956 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
11957 chews through many circuits before giving up.
11958 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
11959 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
11960 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
11961 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
11962 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
11963 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
11965 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
11966 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
11967 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
11969 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
11970 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
11971 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
11972 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
11973 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
11974 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
11975 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
11976 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
11977 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
11978 (reported by fookoowa).
11979 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
11980 and reported by some Centos users.
11981 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
11982 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
11983 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
11984 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
11985 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
11986 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
11987 before we check for libevent.
11990 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
11992 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
11993 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
11994 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
11995 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
11996 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
11997 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
11998 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
11999 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
12000 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
12001 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
12002 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
12003 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
12004 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
12005 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
12006 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
12007 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
12008 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
12009 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
12010 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
12011 lets you turn it off.
12012 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
12013 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
12014 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
12015 us into the directory more quickly.
12017 o New/improved config options:
12018 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
12019 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
12020 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
12021 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
12022 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
12023 all the machines on the same subnet.
12024 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
12025 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
12026 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
12027 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
12028 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
12029 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
12030 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
12031 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
12032 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
12033 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
12035 o Minor features, controller:
12036 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
12037 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
12038 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
12039 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
12040 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
12041 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
12042 for more information.
12043 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
12044 best guess to the user.
12045 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
12046 descriptor has changed.
12047 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
12049 o Minor features, other:
12050 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
12051 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
12052 useful to the network.
12053 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
12054 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
12055 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
12056 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
12057 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
12058 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
12059 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
12060 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
12061 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
12062 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
12063 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
12064 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
12065 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
12066 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
12067 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
12069 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
12070 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
12071 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
12072 could return an unnamed server instead.
12073 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
12074 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
12075 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
12076 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
12077 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
12078 a more attractive target for compromise.)
12079 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
12080 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
12081 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
12083 o Major bugfixes, other:
12084 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
12085 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
12086 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
12087 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
12088 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
12089 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
12090 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
12091 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
12092 its circuits on demand.
12093 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
12094 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
12095 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
12096 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
12098 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
12099 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
12100 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
12101 we don't recognize.
12102 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
12104 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
12105 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
12106 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
12107 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
12108 "extendcircuit" request.
12109 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
12110 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
12111 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
12113 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
12114 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
12115 instead of "X resolved to X".
12116 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
12117 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
12118 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
12119 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
12120 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
12121 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
12122 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
12123 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
12124 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
12126 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
12127 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
12128 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
12129 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
12130 result more than once.
12131 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
12132 non-versioning dirservers.
12133 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
12134 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
12136 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
12137 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
12138 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
12139 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
12140 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
12141 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
12142 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
12143 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
12144 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
12146 o Packaging, features:
12147 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
12148 now universal binaries.
12149 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
12150 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
12151 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
12153 o Packaging, bugfixes:
12154 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
12155 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
12156 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
12157 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
12159 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
12160 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
12161 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
12164 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
12165 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
12166 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
12170 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
12172 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
12173 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
12174 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
12175 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
12176 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
12177 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
12178 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
12179 it can't resolve its hostname.
12182 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
12183 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
12184 "extendcircuit" request.
12185 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
12186 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
12187 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
12188 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
12190 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
12191 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
12192 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
12194 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
12195 methods: these are known to be buggy.
12196 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
12197 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
12198 we don't recognize.
12201 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
12203 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
12204 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
12205 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
12206 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
12207 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
12208 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
12209 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
12210 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
12211 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
12212 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
12213 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
12214 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
12215 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
12216 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
12217 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
12218 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
12219 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
12220 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
12221 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
12222 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
12223 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
12224 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
12225 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
12226 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
12229 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
12230 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
12231 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
12232 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
12233 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
12234 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
12235 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
12236 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
12237 recommendation system saner.)
12238 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
12240 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
12241 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
12242 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
12243 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
12244 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
12245 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
12246 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
12247 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
12248 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
12249 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
12250 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
12251 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
12252 your ORPort is set.
12253 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
12254 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
12255 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
12256 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
12257 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
12258 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
12259 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
12260 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
12261 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
12262 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
12263 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
12264 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
12266 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
12267 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
12268 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
12269 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
12270 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
12271 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
12274 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
12275 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
12276 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
12277 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
12278 our DirPort now, etc.
12279 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
12280 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
12281 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
12282 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
12283 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
12284 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
12285 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
12287 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
12288 whether the config options are bad or good.
12289 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
12290 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
12291 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
12292 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
12293 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
12294 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
12295 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
12296 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
12299 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
12300 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
12301 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
12302 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
12303 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
12304 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
12305 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
12306 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
12307 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
12308 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
12309 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
12310 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
12311 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
12312 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
12313 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
12314 of it), is not therefore "up".
12315 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
12316 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
12317 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
12318 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
12319 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
12320 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
12323 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
12325 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
12326 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
12327 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
12328 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
12329 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
12330 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
12331 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
12332 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
12333 test reachability, so you won't publish.
12336 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
12337 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
12338 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
12339 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
12340 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
12342 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
12343 own server descriptor yet.
12346 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
12348 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
12349 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
12350 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
12351 make sure to test via one of these.
12352 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
12353 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
12354 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
12355 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
12356 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
12358 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
12359 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
12360 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
12363 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
12364 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
12365 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
12366 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
12367 directory authority.
12368 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
12369 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
12370 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
12371 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
12374 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
12375 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
12376 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
12378 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
12379 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
12380 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
12381 current guards when picking a new guard.
12382 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
12383 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
12384 when we had more than one pending.
12385 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
12386 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
12387 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
12388 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
12389 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
12390 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
12391 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
12392 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
12393 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
12394 debug the reachability problems better.
12396 o Log / documentation fixes:
12397 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
12398 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
12399 about protocol violations by others.
12400 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
12401 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
12402 about what happened to our old torrc.
12405 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
12407 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
12409 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
12410 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
12411 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
12412 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
12415 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
12417 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
12418 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
12419 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
12420 old ORPort and receive connections.
12421 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
12423 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
12424 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
12425 and network-statuses.
12426 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
12427 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
12428 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
12429 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
12431 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
12434 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
12435 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
12436 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
12439 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
12441 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
12442 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
12443 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
12444 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
12445 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
12448 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
12449 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
12451 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
12452 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
12453 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
12454 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
12455 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
12456 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
12457 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
12458 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
12459 rather than not sending anything back at all.
12460 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
12461 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
12462 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
12463 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
12464 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
12465 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
12466 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
12467 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
12468 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
12469 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
12470 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
12471 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
12472 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
12473 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
12474 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
12475 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
12476 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
12477 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
12478 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
12479 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
12480 default ulimit -n is 1024.
12483 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
12484 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
12485 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
12486 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
12489 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
12491 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
12492 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
12493 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
12494 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
12495 entry guards running these flawed versions.
12496 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
12497 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
12498 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
12499 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
12500 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
12503 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
12504 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
12506 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
12507 and it is confusing some users.
12508 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
12509 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
12510 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
12511 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
12512 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
12515 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
12517 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
12518 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
12519 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
12520 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
12521 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
12522 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
12523 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
12524 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
12525 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
12526 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
12527 dirport is set for now.
12529 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
12530 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
12531 unattached before we fail it?
12532 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
12533 at least this many seconds ago.
12534 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
12535 at least this many seconds ago.
12538 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
12539 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
12540 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
12541 or resolve-wait stream.
12542 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
12543 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
12544 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
12545 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
12546 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
12547 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
12548 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
12549 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
12551 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
12552 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
12553 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
12554 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
12555 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
12556 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
12557 given as hex digests.
12558 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
12559 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
12560 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
12561 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
12562 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
12563 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
12564 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
12565 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
12568 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12569 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
12570 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
12571 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
12572 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
12573 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
12574 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
12575 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
12576 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
12577 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
12578 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
12581 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
12582 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
12583 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
12584 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
12585 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
12586 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
12587 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
12590 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
12591 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
12592 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
12593 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
12594 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
12595 misreading their logs.
12596 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
12597 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
12598 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
12599 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
12600 valid router descriptors.
12601 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
12602 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
12603 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
12604 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
12605 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
12606 silently resetting it to its default.
12607 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
12609 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
12612 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
12613 use clean circuits.
12614 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
12615 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
12616 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
12617 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
12618 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
12620 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
12621 because older Tors do not understand it.
12622 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
12626 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
12627 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
12628 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
12629 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
12630 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
12631 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
12632 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
12633 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
12634 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
12635 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
12636 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
12638 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
12639 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
12640 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
12641 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
12643 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
12644 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
12647 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
12648 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
12649 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
12650 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
12651 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
12652 without getting overloaded.
12653 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
12655 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
12656 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
12657 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
12658 be forward-compatible.
12659 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
12660 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
12661 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
12662 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
12664 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
12665 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
12666 and OR conns to port 443.
12667 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
12668 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
12670 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
12671 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
12672 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
12673 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
12674 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
12675 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
12676 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
12679 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
12680 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12681 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
12682 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
12684 o Other important bugfixes:
12685 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
12686 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
12687 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
12688 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
12690 o Backported features:
12691 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
12692 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
12693 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
12694 without getting overloaded.
12695 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
12696 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
12697 503's whenever they feel busy.
12698 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
12699 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
12700 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
12701 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
12702 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
12705 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
12706 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
12707 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
12708 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
12709 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
12710 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
12711 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
12712 know if the crashes continue.
12713 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
12714 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
12715 seg faults in at least some cases.)
12716 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
12717 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
12718 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
12721 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
12722 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
12723 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
12724 try to be a bit more fair.
12725 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
12726 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
12727 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
12728 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
12729 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
12730 bug that let it go negative.
12731 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
12732 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
12733 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
12734 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
12735 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
12736 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
12737 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
12738 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
12739 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
12740 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
12741 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
12744 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
12746 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
12747 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
12748 service descriptors.
12751 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
12752 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
12753 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
12754 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
12756 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
12757 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
12758 versions *are* still recommended.
12759 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
12760 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
12761 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
12762 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
12763 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
12764 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
12765 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
12766 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
12768 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
12769 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
12770 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
12771 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
12772 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
12773 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
12774 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
12775 on it. Not used by clients yet.
12776 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
12777 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
12778 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
12779 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
12780 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
12781 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
12782 established a circuit.
12783 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
12784 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
12785 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
12786 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
12789 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
12790 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
12791 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
12792 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
12793 quickly enough. Oops.
12794 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
12796 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12797 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
12800 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
12801 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
12802 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
12803 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
12804 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
12805 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
12806 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
12807 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
12808 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
12809 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
12810 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
12811 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
12812 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
12813 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
12814 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
12815 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
12816 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
12819 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
12820 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
12821 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
12822 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
12823 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
12824 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
12825 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
12826 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
12827 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
12828 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
12829 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
12830 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
12831 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
12832 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
12833 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
12834 connections more reliable.
12837 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
12838 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
12839 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
12840 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
12841 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
12842 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
12843 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
12844 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
12845 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
12846 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
12847 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
12848 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
12849 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
12850 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
12854 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
12855 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
12856 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
12857 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
12858 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
12859 need to be uint64_t's.
12860 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
12861 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
12862 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
12864 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
12866 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
12867 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
12868 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
12869 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
12870 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
12871 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
12872 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
12874 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
12875 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
12876 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
12877 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
12878 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
12879 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
12880 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
12881 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
12882 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
12883 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
12884 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
12885 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
12886 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
12889 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
12890 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
12891 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
12892 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
12893 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
12894 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
12895 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
12897 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
12898 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
12899 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
12900 can answer v2 directory requests too.
12901 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
12902 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
12903 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
12904 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
12906 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
12907 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
12908 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
12909 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
12910 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
12911 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
12912 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
12913 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
12914 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
12915 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
12916 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
12917 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
12918 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
12919 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
12920 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
12922 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
12923 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
12926 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
12927 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12928 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
12929 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
12930 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
12931 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
12932 too -- so detect and avoid this.
12933 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
12935 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
12936 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
12937 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
12938 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
12939 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
12940 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
12941 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
12942 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
12943 rendezvous circuits.
12944 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
12946 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12947 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
12948 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
12949 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
12950 advertising it because of hibernation.
12951 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
12952 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
12953 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
12954 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
12955 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
12956 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
12957 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
12958 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
12959 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
12960 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
12961 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
12962 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
12963 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
12964 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
12967 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
12968 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12969 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
12970 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
12971 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
12972 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
12973 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
12974 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
12975 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
12976 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
12977 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
12978 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
12979 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
12980 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
12981 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
12982 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
12983 connections once a week.
12984 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
12985 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
12986 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
12987 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
12988 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
12989 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
12991 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
12992 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
12993 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
12995 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12996 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
12997 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
12998 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
12999 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
13000 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
13001 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
13002 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
13003 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
13004 firewall options forbid.
13005 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
13006 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
13007 can only proxy to certain destinations.
13008 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
13009 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
13010 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
13011 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
13012 aids some statistical attacks.
13013 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
13014 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
13015 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
13016 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
13018 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
13019 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
13020 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
13021 server descriptor sometimes.
13022 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
13023 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
13024 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
13025 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
13026 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
13027 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
13028 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
13029 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
13031 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
13032 case the controller wants to change that too.
13033 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
13034 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
13035 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
13036 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
13038 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
13039 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
13040 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
13042 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
13043 descriptors that they know they will reject.
13045 o Features and updates:
13046 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
13047 significantly faster.
13048 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
13049 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
13050 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
13051 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
13052 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
13053 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
13054 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
13055 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
13056 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
13057 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
13058 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
13059 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
13060 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
13061 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
13062 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
13063 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
13064 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
13065 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
13066 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
13067 as authoritative dirserver.
13068 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
13069 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
13070 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
13073 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
13074 o Usability improvements:
13075 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
13076 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
13078 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
13079 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
13080 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
13082 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
13083 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
13084 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
13085 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
13086 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
13087 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
13088 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
13089 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
13090 memory leaks better.
13091 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
13092 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
13093 their operators to pay close attention.
13094 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
13095 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
13097 o Performance improvements:
13098 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
13099 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
13100 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
13101 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
13102 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
13103 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
13104 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
13105 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
13106 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
13107 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
13108 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
13109 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
13110 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
13111 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
13112 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
13113 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
13114 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
13116 o Security improvements:
13117 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
13118 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
13119 fingerprint of server.
13120 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
13121 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
13122 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
13124 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13125 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
13126 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
13127 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
13128 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
13129 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
13130 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
13131 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
13132 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
13133 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
13134 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
13135 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
13136 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
13137 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
13138 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
13139 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
13140 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
13141 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
13142 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
13143 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
13144 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
13146 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
13147 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
13148 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
13150 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
13151 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
13153 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
13154 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
13155 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
13156 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
13157 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
13158 of the controller protocol.
13159 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
13160 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
13161 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
13164 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
13165 o New features (major):
13166 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
13167 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
13168 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
13169 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
13170 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
13171 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
13172 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
13173 we're using a default DirPort.
13174 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
13176 o New features (minor):
13177 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
13178 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
13179 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
13180 mirrors still cache and serve it).
13181 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
13182 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
13183 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
13184 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
13185 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
13186 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
13187 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
13188 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
13189 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
13190 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
13191 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
13192 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
13193 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
13194 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
13195 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
13197 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
13198 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
13199 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
13200 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
13201 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
13202 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
13203 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
13204 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
13206 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
13207 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
13208 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
13209 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
13210 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
13211 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
13212 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
13213 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
13214 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
13215 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
13217 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
13218 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
13219 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
13220 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
13221 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
13223 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
13224 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
13225 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
13227 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
13228 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
13230 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
13231 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
13232 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
13233 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
13234 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
13235 don't warn twice about the same name.
13236 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
13237 if we've not heard of the server.
13238 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
13239 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
13242 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
13243 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13244 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
13245 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
13246 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
13247 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
13248 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
13249 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
13250 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
13251 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
13252 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
13253 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
13254 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
13255 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
13256 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
13259 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
13260 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
13261 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
13262 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
13263 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
13265 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
13266 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
13267 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
13268 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
13269 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
13270 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
13274 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
13275 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
13276 nickname) is reachable by you.
13277 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
13280 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
13281 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
13282 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
13283 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
13284 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
13285 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
13286 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
13287 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
13288 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
13289 we fail to connect).
13290 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
13291 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
13292 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
13293 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
13295 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
13296 it was self-testing that told us so.
13299 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
13300 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
13301 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
13302 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
13303 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
13304 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
13305 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
13306 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
13307 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
13308 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
13309 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
13310 exit policy using him for any exits.
13311 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
13314 o New controller features/fixes:
13315 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
13316 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
13317 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
13318 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
13319 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
13320 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
13321 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
13322 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
13323 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
13325 o Start on the new directory design:
13326 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
13327 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
13329 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
13330 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
13331 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
13332 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
13334 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
13335 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
13336 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
13337 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
13338 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
13339 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
13340 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
13341 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
13344 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
13345 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
13346 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
13347 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
13348 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
13349 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
13350 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
13351 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
13352 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
13353 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
13355 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
13356 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
13357 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
13358 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
13359 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
13360 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
13361 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
13362 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
13363 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
13365 o Config option changes:
13366 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
13367 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
13368 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
13369 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
13370 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
13371 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
13373 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
13374 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
13375 people have started using them for spam too.
13376 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
13377 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
13378 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
13379 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
13380 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
13381 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
13382 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
13383 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
13384 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
13385 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
13386 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
13387 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
13388 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
13389 services faster on the service end.
13390 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
13391 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
13392 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
13393 it a fair shake next time we try.
13394 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
13395 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
13396 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
13397 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
13398 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
13399 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
13400 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
13401 able to discover them.
13402 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
13403 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
13404 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
13405 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
13406 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
13407 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
13408 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
13409 testing for reachability.
13410 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
13411 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
13413 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
13415 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
13416 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
13419 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
13420 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
13422 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13423 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
13424 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
13425 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
13428 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
13429 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13430 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
13432 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
13433 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
13436 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
13437 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
13440 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
13441 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
13442 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
13443 options, getinfo keys.
13446 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
13447 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13448 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
13449 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
13450 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
13451 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
13452 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
13454 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
13455 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
13459 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
13460 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
13461 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
13463 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
13465 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
13466 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
13467 circuit events and we go offline.
13468 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
13469 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
13470 you don't have enough intro points already.
13472 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
13473 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
13474 many bytes we've used in this time period.
13475 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
13476 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
13477 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
13478 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
13479 enabled by default yet.
13481 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
13482 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
13483 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
13484 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
13485 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
13488 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
13489 o New directory servers:
13490 - tor26 has changed IP address.
13492 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13493 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
13494 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
13495 pthreads libraries.
13496 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
13497 claims its dirport is 0.
13498 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
13499 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
13503 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
13504 o New directory servers:
13505 - tor26 has changed IP address.
13507 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
13508 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
13510 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
13511 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
13512 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
13513 ports that have changed.
13514 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
13516 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
13517 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
13518 Windows-style errno back.
13519 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
13521 want to make it an NT service.
13522 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
13523 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
13524 name, give the full name in our response.
13525 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
13526 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
13527 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
13528 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
13529 pthreads libraries.
13531 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
13532 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
13536 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
13537 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
13538 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
13539 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
13540 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
13543 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
13544 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13545 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
13546 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
13547 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
13548 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
13549 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
13550 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
13553 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
13555 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
13556 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
13557 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
13558 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
13559 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
13560 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
13562 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
13563 temporarily unreachable.
13564 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
13568 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
13569 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
13570 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
13571 our protocol works.
13572 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
13576 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
13577 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
13578 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
13579 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
13580 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
13584 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
13585 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
13586 libevent before 1.1a.
13589 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
13591 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
13592 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
13593 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
13594 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
13595 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
13597 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
13598 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
13599 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
13600 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
13601 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
13602 of CPU time plus memory.
13603 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
13604 normal web requests.
13605 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
13606 tor_lookup_hostname().
13607 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
13608 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
13609 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
13610 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
13611 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
13612 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
13614 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
13615 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
13616 HttpProxyAuthenticator
13617 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
13618 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
13619 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
13621 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
13622 the user asks you to.
13623 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
13624 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
13625 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
13626 their descriptors are being rejected.
13627 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
13631 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
13633 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
13634 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
13635 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
13637 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
13639 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
13641 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
13642 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
13643 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
13644 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
13645 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
13646 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
13647 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
13648 keys) from the exit server's process.
13649 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
13650 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
13651 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
13652 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
13653 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
13654 point at your Tor server.
13655 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
13656 you're not sending a socks reply back.
13659 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
13660 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
13661 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
13662 to make it easier to write controllers.
13665 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
13667 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
13668 installing on Tiger.
13669 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
13670 complain during installation.
13671 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
13672 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
13673 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
13674 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
13675 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
13676 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
13678 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
13679 something more reasonable when first installing.
13680 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
13683 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
13685 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
13686 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
13688 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
13689 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
13690 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
13691 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
13692 when using the default exit policy.
13693 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
13694 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
13695 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
13696 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
13697 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
13698 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
13699 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
13700 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
13701 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
13702 we fetched a new directory.
13703 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
13704 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
13707 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
13708 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
13709 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
13710 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
13711 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
13712 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
13713 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
13714 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
13716 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
13717 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
13718 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
13719 save memory on systems that need to fork.
13720 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
13721 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
13722 is valid without actually launching Tor.
13723 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
13724 rather than just rejecting it.
13727 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
13729 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
13730 we didn't like its cert.
13732 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
13733 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
13734 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
13735 on patch from Adam Langley.
13736 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
13737 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
13738 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
13739 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
13741 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
13742 directory every time you regenerate it.
13743 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
13744 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
13747 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
13748 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
13749 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
13750 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
13751 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
13754 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
13756 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
13757 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
13758 TLS errors better in other situations too.
13759 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
13760 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
13761 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
13762 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
13763 and don't log when you are.
13764 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
13765 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
13767 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
13768 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
13769 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
13770 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
13771 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
13774 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
13775 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
13776 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
13777 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
13778 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
13779 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
13780 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
13781 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
13782 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
13783 nickname+key are allowed.
13784 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
13785 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
13786 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
13787 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
13788 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
13789 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
13790 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
13791 have quite wrong clocks).
13792 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
13793 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
13794 - Efficiency improvements:
13795 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
13796 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
13797 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
13798 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
13799 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
13800 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
13801 lowercase and be done with it.
13802 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
13803 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
13804 to abandon partially built circuits.
13805 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
13806 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
13808 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
13810 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
13811 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
13812 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
13813 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
13815 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
13816 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
13818 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
13819 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
13820 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
13821 obeying the exit policy internally.
13822 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
13823 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
13825 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
13826 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
13827 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
13828 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
13830 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
13831 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
13832 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
13833 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
13834 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
13836 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
13837 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
13838 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
13839 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
13840 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
13841 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
13842 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
13843 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
13844 descriptors we just dropped.
13845 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
13846 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
13847 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
13848 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
13849 artificially capped at 500kB.
13852 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
13853 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
13854 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
13855 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
13856 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
13857 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
13858 busy for more than 100 seconds.
13861 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
13862 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
13863 - Fixes on reachability detection:
13864 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
13865 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
13866 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
13867 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
13868 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
13869 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
13870 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
13871 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
13872 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
13873 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
13874 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
13875 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
13876 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
13877 server not already connected to them.
13878 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
13879 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
13880 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
13882 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
13884 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
13885 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
13886 are in a different state than they actually are.
13887 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
13888 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
13889 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
13891 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
13892 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
13893 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
13895 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
13896 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
13897 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
13898 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
13899 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
13900 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
13901 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
13903 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
13904 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
13905 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
13906 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
13909 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
13910 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
13911 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
13912 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
13913 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
13914 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
13915 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
13916 creating actual system users.
13917 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
13918 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
13922 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
13924 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
13925 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
13926 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
13927 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
13928 hidden services better.
13929 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
13931 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
13932 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
13933 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
13934 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
13935 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
13936 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
13937 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
13938 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
13939 patch by Matt Edman).
13940 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
13941 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
13942 required exit node for certain sites.
13943 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
13944 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
13945 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
13946 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
13947 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
13948 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
13949 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
13950 rather than just "success" or "failure".
13951 - A more sane version numbering system. See
13952 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
13953 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
13954 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
13956 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
13957 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
13958 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
13959 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
13960 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
13961 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
13962 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
13964 o Robustness/stability fixes:
13965 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
13966 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
13967 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
13969 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
13970 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
13971 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
13973 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
13974 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
13975 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
13977 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
13978 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
13979 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
13980 that will want high uptime circuits.
13981 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
13982 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
13983 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
13984 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
13985 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
13986 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
13987 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
13988 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
13989 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
13990 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
13991 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
13992 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
13993 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
13994 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
13995 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
13996 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
13997 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
13998 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
13999 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
14000 when we try to launch one.
14001 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
14002 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
14003 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
14004 "ShutdownWaitLength".
14005 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
14006 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
14007 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
14008 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
14009 and to take errno into account where possible.
14012 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
14013 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
14014 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
14015 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
14016 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
14017 file more reasonable.
14018 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
14019 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
14020 addresses -- it won't.
14021 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
14022 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
14023 for google.com" problem.
14024 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
14025 so it's not just "unknown platform".
14026 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
14027 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
14028 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
14029 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
14031 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
14032 they could use instead.
14033 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
14034 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
14035 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
14036 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
14037 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
14038 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
14039 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
14040 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
14041 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
14043 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
14047 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
14048 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
14050 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
14051 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
14052 private-IP addresses.
14053 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
14054 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
14056 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
14057 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
14058 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
14059 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
14060 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
14061 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
14062 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
14064 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
14065 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
14066 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
14067 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
14068 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
14069 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
14070 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
14071 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
14073 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
14075 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
14076 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
14077 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
14078 whether the server is hibernating.
14081 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
14082 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
14083 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
14084 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
14085 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
14086 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
14087 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
14088 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
14089 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
14090 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
14091 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
14092 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
14093 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
14094 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
14095 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
14097 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
14098 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
14099 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
14100 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
14101 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
14102 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
14103 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
14104 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
14105 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
14106 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
14107 existing torrc files.
14108 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
14111 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
14112 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
14113 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
14114 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
14115 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
14116 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
14117 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
14118 the win32 SYSTEM account.
14119 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
14120 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
14121 file descriptors available.
14122 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
14123 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
14124 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
14127 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
14128 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
14129 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
14130 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
14132 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
14133 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
14134 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
14135 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
14136 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
14138 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
14139 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
14140 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
14141 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
14142 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
14143 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
14144 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
14145 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
14146 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
14147 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
14148 800kB/s of capacity.
14149 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
14152 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
14153 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
14154 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
14155 need as much processor time.
14156 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
14157 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
14158 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
14159 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
14160 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
14161 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
14162 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
14163 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
14164 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
14165 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
14166 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
14167 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
14169 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
14170 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
14171 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
14172 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
14173 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
14174 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
14175 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
14178 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
14179 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
14180 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
14182 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
14183 style address, then we'd crash.
14184 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
14185 a dirserver is broken.
14186 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
14188 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
14189 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
14190 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
14192 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
14193 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
14194 name out of the warning/assert messages.
14195 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
14196 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
14197 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
14199 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
14200 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
14201 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
14203 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
14205 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
14206 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
14207 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
14208 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
14209 values at once couldn't work.
14210 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
14211 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
14212 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
14213 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
14214 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
14215 they can handle any number of routers.
14216 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
14217 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
14218 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
14219 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
14220 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
14221 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
14222 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
14223 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
14224 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
14227 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
14228 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
14229 - Make hibernation actually work.
14230 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
14231 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
14232 don't use the stream status code.
14235 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
14237 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
14238 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
14240 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
14243 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
14244 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
14245 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
14246 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
14247 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
14248 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
14249 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
14250 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
14251 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
14252 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
14254 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14255 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
14256 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
14257 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
14258 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
14259 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
14260 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
14261 - Make unit tests work on win32.
14264 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
14265 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
14266 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
14268 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
14269 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
14270 than just chopping them off.
14271 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
14273 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14274 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
14275 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
14276 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
14277 right after sending the begin cell.
14278 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
14279 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
14280 exit nodes too. Oops.
14283 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
14284 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
14285 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
14286 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
14287 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
14288 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
14289 the user knows which one it's talking about.
14290 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
14291 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
14292 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
14295 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
14296 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14297 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
14298 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
14300 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
14302 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
14303 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
14304 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
14306 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
14307 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
14308 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
14309 Clip rather than rejecting.
14310 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
14311 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
14314 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
14315 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
14316 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
14317 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
14319 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
14322 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
14323 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14324 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
14325 win32 socket errors better.
14327 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
14328 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
14331 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
14332 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14333 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
14334 so we don't see those messages days later.
14336 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
14337 - Make tor-resolve work again.
14338 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
14339 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
14342 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
14343 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
14344 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
14345 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
14347 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
14348 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
14349 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
14352 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
14353 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14354 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
14355 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
14356 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
14357 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
14358 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
14359 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
14360 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
14362 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
14363 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
14364 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
14365 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
14367 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
14368 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
14371 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
14372 hibernation properties by
14373 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
14374 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
14375 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
14376 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
14377 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
14378 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
14379 get back to normal.)
14380 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
14382 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
14383 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
14384 to fill the last cell completely.
14385 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
14388 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
14389 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14390 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
14391 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
14392 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
14393 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
14394 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
14395 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
14396 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
14397 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
14398 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
14400 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
14401 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
14402 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
14403 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
14404 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
14405 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
14406 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
14407 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
14409 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
14410 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
14411 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
14412 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
14413 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
14414 have it on start-up.
14417 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
14418 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
14419 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
14420 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
14421 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
14422 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
14423 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
14424 configuration to torrc.
14425 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
14426 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
14427 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
14428 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
14429 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
14431 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
14432 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
14433 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
14434 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
14435 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
14436 log more informatively.
14437 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
14438 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
14439 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
14440 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
14441 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
14442 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
14443 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
14444 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
14445 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
14446 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
14447 from each other, to hinder linkability.
14450 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
14451 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
14452 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
14453 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
14454 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
14455 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
14456 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
14458 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
14459 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
14460 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
14461 they ran out of file descriptors.
14462 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
14463 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
14464 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
14465 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
14466 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
14467 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
14468 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
14470 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
14473 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
14474 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
14475 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
14476 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
14477 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
14478 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
14479 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
14480 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
14481 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
14482 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
14483 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
14484 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
14485 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
14486 with the control port.
14487 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
14488 use in authenticating to the control interface.
14489 - New log format in config:
14490 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
14491 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
14494 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
14495 from their dirserver.
14496 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
14498 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
14499 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
14500 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
14501 them act more like real nodes.
14502 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
14503 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
14505 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
14506 nickname to its identity key.
14507 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
14508 not on the command line.
14509 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
14510 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
14511 1024) file descriptors.
14513 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
14514 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
14516 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
14517 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
14518 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
14521 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
14522 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
14523 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
14524 exit policy, not reject *:*.
14525 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
14526 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
14527 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
14528 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
14529 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
14530 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
14531 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
14534 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
14535 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
14536 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
14537 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
14538 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
14539 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
14540 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
14543 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
14544 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14545 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
14546 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
14547 the ones we find in directories.)
14548 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
14550 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
14551 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
14553 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
14554 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
14555 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
14557 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
14558 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
14559 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
14560 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
14562 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
14563 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
14564 any more exit policy lines.
14567 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
14568 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
14569 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
14570 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
14571 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
14572 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
14573 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
14574 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
14575 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
14576 will be able to get a directory.
14577 - Http proxy support
14578 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
14579 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
14580 be routed through this host.
14581 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
14582 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
14583 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
14584 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
14587 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
14589 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
14590 clients/servers with an open dirport.
14591 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
14592 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
14593 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
14594 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
14595 intermittent connections.
14596 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
14597 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
14599 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
14600 in reporting stats locally.
14601 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
14602 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
14603 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
14606 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
14608 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
14609 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
14612 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
14614 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
14615 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
14616 if you don't want it open.
14617 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
14618 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
14619 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
14620 intermittent connections.
14621 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
14623 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
14624 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
14625 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
14626 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
14627 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
14628 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
14629 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
14630 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
14631 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
14632 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
14633 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
14634 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
14635 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
14636 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
14637 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
14638 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
14641 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
14642 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
14643 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
14644 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
14645 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
14647 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
14649 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
14650 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
14651 specified in HTTP 1.0.
14652 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
14653 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
14654 than once per minute.
14655 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
14656 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
14659 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
14660 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
14663 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
14664 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
14665 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
14666 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
14669 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
14670 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
14672 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
14673 don't put it into the client dns cache.
14674 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
14675 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
14676 until we get our next directory.
14678 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
14679 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
14680 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
14681 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
14682 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
14683 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
14684 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
14685 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
14686 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
14687 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
14688 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
14690 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
14692 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
14693 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
14695 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
14696 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
14697 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
14699 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
14701 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
14702 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
14703 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
14704 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
14705 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
14706 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
14707 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
14708 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
14711 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
14712 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
14713 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
14714 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
14717 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
14718 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
14719 ask them to resolve the host "".
14722 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
14723 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
14724 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
14725 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
14726 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
14727 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
14728 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
14729 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
14730 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
14731 clients don't use this yet.)
14732 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
14733 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
14734 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
14735 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
14736 for pointing out this bug.)
14737 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
14738 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
14739 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
14740 kazaa, gnutella ports.
14741 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
14743 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
14744 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
14745 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
14746 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
14747 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
14748 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
14749 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
14750 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
14751 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
14752 wolf unpredictably.
14753 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
14754 that's still handshaking.
14755 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
14756 you'll choose it for your path.
14757 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
14758 end relay cell, etc.
14759 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
14760 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
14761 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
14764 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
14765 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
14767 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
14768 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
14769 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
14770 list to decide who's running or verified.
14771 - Bugfixes and features:
14772 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
14773 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
14774 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
14775 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
14776 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
14777 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
14779 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
14780 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
14781 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
14782 know you might want to get it verified.
14783 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
14786 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
14788 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
14789 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
14790 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
14791 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
14793 o Protocol changes:
14794 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
14795 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
14796 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
14797 hadn't heard of before.
14800 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
14801 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
14802 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
14803 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
14804 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
14805 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
14806 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
14807 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
14808 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
14809 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
14810 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
14811 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
14812 - Directory caching.
14813 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
14814 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
14815 directory they've pulled down.
14816 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
14817 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
14818 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
14819 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
14820 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
14821 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
14822 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
14824 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
14825 This isn't used yet.
14826 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
14827 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
14828 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
14829 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
14830 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
14831 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
14832 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
14833 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
14834 - File and name management:
14835 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
14836 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
14838 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
14839 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
14840 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
14841 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
14842 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
14843 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
14844 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
14846 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
14847 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
14848 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
14849 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
14850 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
14852 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
14853 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
14854 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
14855 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
14856 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
14857 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
14858 - New docs in the tarball:
14860 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
14863 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
14864 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
14865 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
14868 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
14869 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
14870 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
14873 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
14874 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
14877 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
14878 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
14879 - Make it build on Win32 again.
14880 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
14881 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
14885 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
14887 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
14888 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
14889 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
14890 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
14891 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
14892 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
14893 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
14894 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
14895 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
14896 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
14899 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
14902 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
14903 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
14904 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
14905 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
14907 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
14908 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
14909 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
14911 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
14912 hidden service per 15-minute period.
14913 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
14914 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
14915 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
14916 o Fixes for security bugs:
14917 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
14918 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
14919 a trusted dirserver.
14921 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
14922 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
14923 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
14924 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
14925 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
14926 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
14927 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
14928 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
14929 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
14930 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
14932 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
14933 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
14934 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
14935 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
14937 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
14938 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
14939 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
14940 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
14941 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
14942 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
14943 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
14944 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
14945 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
14946 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
14947 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
14948 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
14949 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
14952 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
14953 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
14954 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
14955 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
14958 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
14959 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
14960 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
14961 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
14962 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
14963 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
14964 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
14968 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
14969 [version bump only]
14972 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
14973 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
14974 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
14975 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
14976 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
14978 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
14981 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
14982 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
14983 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
14984 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
14985 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
14986 o Better debugging for tls errors
14987 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
14988 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
14989 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
14990 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
14991 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
14992 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
14993 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
14994 o win32's close can't close a socket.
14997 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
14998 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
14999 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
15000 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
15001 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
15002 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
15003 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
15004 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
15005 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
15006 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
15007 just close the circ.
15008 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
15009 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
15010 (this was quite rare).
15013 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
15014 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
15015 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
15016 if you decrypted them correctly.
15017 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
15018 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
15019 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
15022 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
15023 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
15024 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
15025 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
15026 a second one and it works.
15027 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
15028 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
15029 alice would just have to wait to time out.
15030 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
15031 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
15032 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
15033 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
15034 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
15035 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
15036 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
15037 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
15038 i'd still like to find the bug though.
15039 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
15041 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
15045 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
15046 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
15047 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
15048 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
15049 he retries a couple of times
15050 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
15051 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
15052 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
15053 too long (they were sticking around forever).
15054 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
15058 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
15059 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
15060 - make hup work again
15061 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
15062 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
15063 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
15064 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
15065 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
15066 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
15068 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
15069 o changes from 0.0.5:
15070 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
15071 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
15072 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
15073 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
15074 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
15076 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
15077 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
15078 in-memory directories too
15081 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
15082 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
15085 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
15087 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
15088 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
15089 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
15090 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
15093 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
15094 [version bump only]
15097 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
15098 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
15100 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
15101 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
15102 but that aren't warnings
15105 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
15106 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
15107 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
15108 the dns farm to do it.
15109 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
15110 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
15112 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
15113 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
15114 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
15117 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
15118 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
15119 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
15120 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
15121 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
15122 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
15123 expect it to have a nickname.
15124 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
15125 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
15128 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
15129 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
15133 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
15134 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
15135 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
15136 - include missing header fcntl.h
15137 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
15138 - deal with hardware word alignment
15139 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
15140 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
15141 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
15142 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
15143 by kill -USR1 currently.
15144 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
15145 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
15146 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
15149 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
15150 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
15151 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
15154 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
15156 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
15157 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
15158 - And fix a few endian issues.
15161 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
15163 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
15164 try that circuit again: try a new one.
15165 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
15166 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
15167 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
15168 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
15169 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
15170 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
15172 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
15173 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
15174 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
15176 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
15178 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
15179 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
15180 side isn't reading right then.
15181 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
15182 RecommendedVersions
15183 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
15184 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
15185 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
15188 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
15190 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
15191 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
15194 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
15198 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
15200 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
15201 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
15202 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
15203 connection is finished.
15204 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
15205 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
15206 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
15207 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
15208 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
15209 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
15210 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
15211 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
15212 rather than warn and continue.
15213 - Make --version work
15214 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
15217 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
15219 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
15220 knows it's working.
15221 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
15222 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
15224 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
15225 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
15226 so you can collect coredumps there.
15228 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
15229 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
15230 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
15231 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
15232 dns cache actually gets populated.
15233 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
15234 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
15235 end cell down it first.
15236 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
15237 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
15240 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
15242 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
15243 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
15245 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
15246 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
15247 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
15248 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
15249 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
15250 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
15252 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
15254 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
15255 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
15256 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
15257 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
15258 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
15259 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
15261 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
15262 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
15265 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
15267 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
15268 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
15269 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
15270 tor. It even has a man page.
15271 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
15272 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
15273 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
15274 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
15276 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
15278 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
15281 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
15283 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
15284 it, apt-getters. :)
15285 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
15286 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
15287 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
15288 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
15289 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
15290 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
15291 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
15292 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
15293 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
15294 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
15295 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
15297 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
15298 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
15301 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
15303 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
15304 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
15307 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
15309 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
15310 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
15311 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
15312 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
15313 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
15314 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
15315 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
15316 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
15317 logfile so you know it's working.
15318 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
15319 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
15322 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
15324 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
15325 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
15326 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
15329 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
15331 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
15332 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
15333 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
15336 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
15337 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
15338 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
15340 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
15341 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
15343 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
15344 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
15345 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
15347 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
15348 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
15352 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
15354 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
15355 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
15356 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
15359 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
15360 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
15361 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
15362 - Add port ranges to exit policies
15363 - Add a conservative default exit policy
15364 - Warn if you're running tor as root
15365 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
15366 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
15367 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
15368 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
15370 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
15373 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
15374 o Robustness and bugfixes:
15375 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
15376 really screw things up.
15377 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
15379 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
15380 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
15382 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
15383 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
15384 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
15385 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
15386 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
15387 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
15390 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
15393 - Change default loglevel to warn.
15394 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
15395 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
15397 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
15400 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
15401 o Robustness and bugfixes:
15402 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
15403 - to get ownership/permissions right
15404 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
15405 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
15406 pull down a directory again
15407 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
15408 causing server crashes
15409 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
15410 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
15411 - exit if bind() fails
15412 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
15413 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
15414 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
15415 - fix minor bias in PRNG
15416 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
15419 - Wrote the design document (woo)
15421 o Circuit building and exit policies:
15422 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
15424 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
15425 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
15426 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
15427 exists, rather than failing
15428 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
15429 which AP connections are standing by
15430 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
15431 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
15432 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
15434 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
15435 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
15438 - APPort is now called SocksPort
15439 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
15441 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
15442 hardcoded (for dirservers)
15443 - Reloads config on HUP
15444 - Usage info on -h or --help
15445 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
15448 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
15449 o General stability:
15450 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
15451 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
15452 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
15453 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
15454 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
15455 to take down the network when I approve a new router
15456 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
15459 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
15460 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
15462 o Autoconf improvements:
15463 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
15464 - Make install now works
15465 - create var/lib/tor on make install
15466 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
15467 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
15469 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
15470 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
15471 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
15472 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup