1 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable
2 release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the
3 changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
5 Changes in version 0.4.7.8 - 2022-06-17
6 This version fixes several bugfixes including a High severity security issue
7 categorized as a Denial of Service. Everyone running an earlier version
8 should upgrade to this version.
10 o Major bugfixes (congestion control, TROVE-2022-001):
11 - Fix a scenario where RTT estimation can become wedged, seriously
12 degrading congestion control performance on all circuits. This
13 impacts clients, onion services, and relays, and can be triggered
14 remotely by a malicious endpoint. Tracked as CVE-2022-33903. Fixes
15 bug 40626; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
17 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
18 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 17, 2022.
20 o Minor features (geoip data):
21 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
22 retrieved on 2022/06/17.
24 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
25 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
26 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
27 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
29 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
30 - Demote a harmless warn log message about finding a second hop to
31 from warn level to info level, if we do not have enough
32 descriptors yet. Leave it at notice level for other cases. Fixes
33 bug 40603; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
34 - Demote a notice log message about "Unexpected path length" to info
35 level. These cases seem to happen arbitrarily, and we likely will
36 never find all of them before the switch to arti. Fixes bug 40612;
37 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
39 o Minor bugfixes (relay, logging):
40 - Demote a harmless XOFF log message to from notice level to info
41 level. Fixes bug 40620; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
44 Changes in version 0.4.7.7 - 2022-04-27
45 This is the first stable version of the 0.4.7.x series. This series
46 includes several major bugfixes from previous series and several features
47 including one massive new one: congestion control.
49 Congestion control, among other things, should improve traffic speed and
50 stability on the network once a majority of Exit upgrade. You can find more
51 details about it in proposal 324 in the torspec.git repository.
53 Below are all the changes of the 0.4.7.x series:
55 o Major features (congestion control):
56 - Implement support for flow control over congestion controlled
57 circuits. This work comes from proposal 324. Closes ticket 40450.
59 o Major features (relay, client, onion services):
60 - Implement RTT-based congestion control for exits and onion
61 services, from Proposal 324. Disabled by default. Enabled by the
62 'cc_alg' consensus parameter. Closes ticket 40444.
64 o Major features (directory authority):
65 - Add a new consensus method to handle MiddleOnly specially. When
66 enough authorities are using this method, then any relay tagged
67 with the MiddleOnly flag will have its Exit, Guard, HSDir, and
68 V2Dir flags automatically cleared, and will have its BadExit flag
69 automatically set. Implements part of proposal 335.
70 - Authorities can now be configured to label relays as "MiddleOnly".
71 When voting for this flag, authorities automatically vote against
72 Exit, Guard, HSDir, and V2Dir; and in favor of BadExit. Implements
73 part of proposal 335. Based on a patch from Neel Chauhan.
75 o Major features (Proposal 332, onion services, guard selection algorithm):
76 - Clients and onion services now choose four long-lived "layer 2"
77 guard relays for use as the middle hop in all onion circuits.
78 These relays are kept in place for a randomized duration averaging
79 1 week. This mitigates guard discovery attacks against clients and
80 short-lived onion services such as OnionShare. Long-lived onion
81 services that need high security should still use the Vanguards
82 addon (https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards). Closes ticket
83 40363; implements proposal 333.
85 o Major bugfix (relay, metrics):
86 - On the MetricsPort, the DNS error statistics are not reported by
87 record type ("record=...") anymore due to a libevent bug
88 (https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/1219). Fixes bug
89 40490; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
91 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
92 - Make Tor work reliably again when you have multiple bridges
93 configured and one or more of them are unreachable. The problem
94 came because we require that we have bridge descriptors for both
95 of our first two bridges (else we refuse to try to connect), but
96 in some cases we would wait three hours before trying to fetch
97 these missing descriptors, and/or never recover when we do try to
98 fetch them. Fixes bugs 40396 and 40495; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc
101 o Major bugfixes (client):
102 - Stop caching TCP connect failures to relays/bridges when we
103 initiated the connection as a client. Now we only cache connect
104 failures as a relay or bridge when we initiated them because of an
105 EXTEND request. Declining to re-attempt the client-based
106 connections could cause problems when we lose connectivity and try
107 to reconnect. Fixes bug 40499; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
109 o Major bugfixes (onion service, congestion control):
110 - Fix the onion service upload case where the congestion control
111 parameters were not added to the right object. Fixes bug 40586;
112 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
114 o Major bugfixes (relay, DNS):
115 - Lower the DNS timeout from 3 attempts at 5 seconds each to 2
116 attempts at 1 seconds each. Two new consensus parameters were
117 added to control these values. This change should improve observed
118 performance under DNS load; see ticket for more details. Fixes bug
119 40312; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
121 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
122 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
123 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
124 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
125 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
126 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
127 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
129 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
130 - Do not trigger a general overload on DNS timeout. Even after
131 fixing 40527, some code remained that triggered the overload.
132 Fixes bug 40564; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
133 - Change the MetricsPort DNS "timeout" label to be "tor_timeout" in
134 order to indicate that this was a DNS timeout from tor perspective
135 and not the DNS server itself.
136 - Deprecate overload_dns_timeout_period_secs and
137 overload_dns_timeout_scale_percent consensus parameters as well.
138 They were used to assess the overload state which is no more now.
139 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
140 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
141 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
142 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
144 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
145 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.4.2.x, 0.4.3.x,
146 0.4.4.x and 0.4.5 alphas/rc. Closes ticket 40480.
147 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.3.5.x. Closes
150 o Minor feature (onion service v2):
151 - Onion service v2 addresses are now not recognized anymore by tor
152 meaning a bad hostname is returned when attempting to pass it on a
153 SOCKS connection. No more deprecation log is emitted client side.
155 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
156 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
158 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
159 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
160 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
163 o Minor features (bridge testing support):
164 - Let external bridge reachability testing tools discard cached
165 bridge descriptors when setting new bridges, so they can be sure
166 to get a clean reachability test. Implements ticket 40209.
168 o Minor features (compilation):
169 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
170 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
171 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
172 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
175 o Minor features (control port):
176 - Provide congestion control fields on CIRC_BW and STREAM control
177 port events, for use by sbws. Closes ticket 40568.
179 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
180 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 27, 2022.
182 o Minor features (fuzzing):
183 - When building with --enable-libfuzzer, use a set of compiler flags
184 that works with more recent versions of the library. Previously we
185 were using a set of flags from 2017. Closes ticket 40407.
187 o Minor features (geoip data):
188 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
189 retrieved on 2022/04/27.
191 o Minor features (logging, heartbeat):
192 - When a relay receives a cell that isn't encrypted properly for it,
193 but the relay is the last hop on the circuit, the relay now counts
194 how many cells of this kind it receives, on how many circuits, and
195 reports this information in the log. Previously, we'd log each
196 cell at PROTOCOL_WARN level, which is far too verbose to be
197 useful. Fixes part of ticket 40400.
199 o Minor features (portability):
200 - Try to prevent a compiler warning about printf arguments that
201 could sometimes occur on MSYS2 depending on the configuration.
204 o Minor features (testing configuration):
205 - When TestingTorNetwork is enabled, skip the permissions check on
206 hidden service directories. Closes ticket 40338.
207 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
208 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
209 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
210 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
211 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
212 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
213 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
214 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
215 fix for ticket 40337.
216 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
217 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
218 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
220 o Minor features (testing):
221 - We now have separate fuzzers for the inner layers of v3 onion
222 service descriptors, to prevent future bugs like 40392. Closes
225 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
226 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug
227 40500; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
229 o Minor bugfix (logging):
230 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
231 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
233 o Minor bugfix (pluggable transport):
234 - Do not kill a managed proxy if one of its transport configurations
235 emits a method error. Instead log a warning and continue processing
236 method arguments. Fixes bug 7362; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
238 o Minor bugfix (relay):
239 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
240 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
243 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
244 - When we don't yet have a descriptor for one of our bridges,
245 disable the entry guard retry schedule on that bridge. The entry
246 guard retry schedule and the bridge descriptor retry schedule can
247 conflict, e.g. where we mark a bridge as "maybe up" yet we don't
248 try to fetch its descriptor yet, leading Tor to wait (refusing to
249 do anything) until it becomes time to fetch the descriptor. Fixes
250 bug 40497; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
252 o Minor bugfixes (cell scheduling):
253 - Avoid writing empty payload with NSS write.
254 - Don't attempt to write 0 bytes after a cell scheduling loop. No
255 empty payload was put on the wire. Fixes bug 40548; bugfix
258 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
259 - Don't send STOP circuit padding cells when the other side has
260 already shut down the corresponding padding machine. Fixes bug
261 40435; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
263 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
264 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
265 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
266 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
267 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
270 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
271 - Fix compilation error when __NR_time is not defined. Fixes bug
272 40465; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
273 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
274 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
275 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
276 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
277 - Resume being able to build on old / esoteric gcc versions. Fixes
278 bug 40550; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
280 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
281 - Fix couple compiler warnings on latest Ubuntu Jammy. Fixes bug
282 40516; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
284 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control, client side logs):
285 - Demote a warn about 1-hop circuits using congestion control down
286 to info; Demote the 4-hop case to notice. Fixes bug 40598; bugfix
289 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
290 - Allows the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
291 sandbox is enabled. Makes SAVECONF keep only one backup file, to
292 simplify implementation. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
293 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
295 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
296 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
297 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
298 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
299 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
300 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
302 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth, bandwidth scanner):
303 - Add the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth dirauth config parameter
304 to avoid voting on bandwidth scanner weights to v3 directory
305 authorities. Fixes bug 40471; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Patch by
308 o Minor bugfixes (DNSPort, dormant mode):
309 - A request on the DNSPort now wakes up a dormant tor. Fixes bug
310 40577; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
312 o Minor bugfixes (fragile-hardening, sandbox):
313 - When building with --enable-fragile-hardening, add or relax Linux
314 seccomp rules to allow AddressSanitizer to execute normally if the
315 process terminates with the sandbox active. This has the side
316 effect of disabling the filtering of file- and directory-open
317 requests on most systems and dilutes the effectiveness of the
318 sandbox overall, as a wider range of system calls must be
319 permitted. Fixes bug 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
321 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
322 - Adjust the heartbeat log message about distinct clients to
323 consider the HeartbeatPeriod rather than a flat 6-hour delay.
324 Fixes bug 40330; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
326 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
327 - If a channel has never received or transmitted a cell, or seen a
328 client, do not calculate time diffs against 1/1/1970 but log a
329 better prettier message. Fixes bug 40182; bugfix on 0.2.4.4.
330 - When we no longer have enough directory information to use the
331 network, we would log a notice-level message -- but we would not
332 reliably log a message when we recovered and resumed using the
333 network. Now make sure there is always a corresponding message
334 about recovering. Fixes bug 40496; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
336 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
337 - Add spaces between the "and" when logging the "Your server has not
338 managed to confirm reachability for its" on dual-stack relays.
339 Fixes bug 40453; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
341 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
342 - Fix the metrics with a port label to be unique. Before this, all
343 ports of an onion service would be on the same line which violates
344 the Prometheus rules of unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix
347 o Minor bugfixes (onion service congestion control):
348 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in the case where we fail to
349 set up congestion control on a rendezvous circuit. This could
350 happen naturally if a cache entry expired at an unexpected time.
351 Fixes bug 40576; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
353 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
354 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
355 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
356 connections before uploading a new descriptor which leads to
357 wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit path
358 selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
359 - Fix a warning BUG that would occur often on heavily loaded onion
360 service leading to filling the logs with useless warnings. Fixes
361 bug 34083; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
363 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
364 - Fix a rare but fatal assertion failure due to a guard subsystem
365 recursion triggered by the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579;
366 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
368 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, config):
369 - Fix a memory leak for a small config line string that could occur
370 if the onion service failed to be configured from file properly.
371 Fixes bug 40484; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
373 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
374 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
375 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
376 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
377 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
378 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
379 - Note that due to #40476 which removes v2 support entirely, this
380 log line is not emitted anymore. We still mention this in the
381 changelog because it is a Low-severity TROVE.
383 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
384 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
385 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
386 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
387 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
388 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
390 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
391 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
392 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
393 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
394 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
396 o Minor bugfixes (relay, overload):
397 - Decide whether to signal overload based on a fraction and
398 assessment period of ntor handshake drops. Previously, a single
399 drop could trigger an overload state, which caused many false
400 positives. Fixes bug 40560; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
402 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
403 - Fix the sandbox on i386 by modifying it to allow the
404 "clock_gettime64" and "statx" system calls and to filter the
405 "chown32" and "stat64" system calls in place of "chown" and
406 "stat", respectively. Fixes bug 40505; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
408 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
409 - Fix a fencepost issue when we check stability_last_downrated where
410 we called rep_hist_downrate_old_runs() twice. Fixes bug 40394;
411 bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
413 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
414 - Fix a bug that prevented some tests from running with the correct
415 names. Fixes bug 40365; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
417 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
418 - Do not log "RENDEZVOUS1 cell with unrecognized rendezvous cookie"
419 at LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. This warning can
420 happen naturally if a client gives up on a rendezvous circuit
421 after sending INTRODUCE1. Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix
423 - Do not log "circuit_receive_relay_cell failed" at
424 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. In every case where we
425 would want to log this as a protocol warning, we are already
426 logging another warning from inside circuit_receive_relay_cell.
427 Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
429 o Code simplification and refactoring:
430 - Lower the official maximum for "guard-extreme-restriction-percent"
431 to 100. This has no effect on when the guard code will generate a
432 warning, but it makes the intent of the option clearer. Fixes bug
433 40486; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
436 - Add links to original tor design paper and anonbib to
437 docs/HACKING/README.1st.md. Closes ticket 33742. Patch from
439 - Describe the "fingerprint-ed25519" file in the tor.1 man page.
440 Fixes bug 40467; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
441 - Provide an improved version of the tor-exit-notice.html file for
442 exit relays to use as a landing page. The text is unchanged, but
443 the page design and layout are significantly modernized, and
444 several links are fixed. Patch from "n_user"; closes ticket 40529.
447 - Add unit tests for the Linux seccomp sandbox. Resolves
450 o Code simplification and refactoring (rust):
451 - Remove Rust support and its associated code. It is unsupported and
452 Rust focus should be shifted to arti. Closes ticket 40469.
454 o Documentation (man, relay):
455 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
456 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
458 o Testing (CI, chutney):
459 - Bump the data size that chutney transmits to 5MBytes in order to
460 trigger the flow control and congestion window code. Closes
464 Changes in version 0.4.6.10 - 2022-02-04
465 This version contains minor bugfixes but one in particular is that relays
466 don't advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
468 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
469 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
471 o Minor features (geoip data):
472 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
473 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
475 o Minor bugfix (logging):
476 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
477 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
479 o Minor bugfix (relay):
480 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
481 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
484 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
485 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
486 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
489 Changes in version 0.4.6.9 - 2021-12-15
490 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One important
491 piece is the removal of DNS timeout metric from the overload general signal.
492 See below for more details.
494 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
495 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
496 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
497 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
498 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
500 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
501 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
502 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
505 o Minor features (compilation):
506 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
507 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
508 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
509 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
512 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
513 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
515 o Minor features (geoip data):
516 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
517 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
519 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
520 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
521 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
522 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
523 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
525 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
526 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
527 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
528 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
529 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
531 o Documentation (man, relay):
532 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
533 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
536 Changes in version 0.4.6.8 - 2021-10-26
537 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One
538 highlight is a fix on how we track DNS timeouts to report general
541 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
542 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
543 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
544 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
545 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
546 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
547 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
549 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
550 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
553 o Minor features (testing):
554 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
555 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
556 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
557 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
558 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
559 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
560 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
561 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
562 fix for ticket 40337.
563 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
564 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
565 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
567 o Minor bugfix (onion service):
568 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
569 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
570 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
571 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
572 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
573 - Improve logging when a bad HS version is given. Fixes bug 40476;
574 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
576 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
577 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
578 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
580 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
581 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
582 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
583 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
584 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
587 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
588 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
589 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
590 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
591 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
592 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
595 Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26
596 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
597 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
598 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
599 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
600 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
601 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
604 o Major feature (onion service v2):
605 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
606 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
607 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
608 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
610 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
611 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
612 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
613 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
615 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
616 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
617 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
618 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
620 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
621 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
624 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5):
625 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
626 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
627 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
628 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
630 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8):
631 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
632 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
633 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
634 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
635 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
636 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
637 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
638 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
639 fix for ticket 40337.
640 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
641 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
642 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
644 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
645 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
646 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
648 o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8):
649 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
650 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
651 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
652 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
653 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
655 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
656 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
657 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
658 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
659 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
662 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
663 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
664 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
665 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
666 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
668 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8):
669 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
670 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
671 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
672 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
673 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
676 Changes in version 0.3.5.17 - 2021-10-26
677 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
678 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
679 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
680 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
681 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
682 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
685 o Major feature (onion service v2, backport from 0.4.5.11):
686 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
687 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
688 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
689 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
691 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
692 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
693 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
694 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
696 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
697 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
698 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
699 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
701 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
702 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
705 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
706 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
707 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
708 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
709 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
713 Changes in version 0.4.6.7 - 2021-08-16
714 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
715 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
716 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
717 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
719 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
720 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
721 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
722 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
723 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
724 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
725 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
728 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
729 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
731 o Minor features (geoip data):
732 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
733 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
735 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
736 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
737 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
739 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
740 - Send back the extended SOCKS error 0xF6 (Onion Service Invalid Address)
741 for a v2 onion address. Fixes bug 40421; bugfix on 0.4.6.2-alpha.
743 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
744 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
745 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
747 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
748 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW in
749 order to reduce CPU load on the directory relays. Fixes bug 40301;
750 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
752 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping):
753 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
754 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
755 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
756 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
757 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
758 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
761 Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16
762 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
763 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
764 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
765 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
767 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
768 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
769 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
770 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
771 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
772 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
773 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
776 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
777 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
779 o Minor features (geoip data):
780 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
781 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
783 o Minor features (testing):
784 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the address set
785 bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
787 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
788 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
789 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
791 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
792 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
793 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
795 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.x):
796 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
797 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
798 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
799 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
800 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
801 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
803 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.x):
804 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some versions
805 of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
808 Changes in version 0.3.5.16 - 2021-08-16
809 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
810 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
811 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
812 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
814 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
815 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
816 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
817 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
818 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
819 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
820 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
823 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
824 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
826 o Minor features (geoip data):
827 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
828 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
830 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
831 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
832 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
834 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
835 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
836 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
839 Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30
840 Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that
841 allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should
842 upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor
843 0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need.
845 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
846 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
847 that does not support const variables in static initializers.
848 Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5.
849 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
850 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
852 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
853 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
854 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
858 Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14
859 Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x
860 series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant
861 improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve
862 observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are
865 This release also includes security fixes for several security issues,
866 including a denial-of-service attack against onion service clients,
867 and another denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should
868 upgrade to one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
870 Below are the changes since 0.4.5.8. For a list of changes since
871 0.4.6.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
873 o Major bugfixes (security):
874 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
875 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
876 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
877 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
878 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
879 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
881 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth):
882 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
883 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
884 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
885 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
886 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
887 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
888 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
890 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
891 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
892 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
893 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
894 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
895 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
896 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
897 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
898 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
899 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
900 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
901 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
902 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
903 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
904 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
906 o Major features (control port, onion services):
907 - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with
908 client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be
909 created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by
912 o Major features (directory authority):
913 - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil
914 flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator
915 know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes
916 ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
918 o Major features (metrics):
919 - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo
920 documents. This information is controlled with the
921 OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve
922 decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal
923 328; closes ticket 40222.
925 o Major features (relay, denial of service):
926 - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client
927 connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253.
929 o Major features (statistics):
930 - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion
931 services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same
932 manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126.
934 o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout):
935 - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for
936 60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now
937 use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the
938 circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored
939 estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never
940 finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients
941 were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest
942 possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most
943 likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a
944 bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes,
945 lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to
946 10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time
947 histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally,
948 we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most
949 common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as
950 the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
951 - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit
952 build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer
953 needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix
956 o Major bugfixes (signing key):
957 - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if
958 the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short.
959 Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
961 o Minor features (bridge):
962 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
963 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
964 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
966 o Minor features (build system):
967 - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json
968 file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for
969 this. Closes ticket 40227.
971 o Minor features (client):
972 - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter
973 the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close
974 them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for
975 this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271.
977 o Minor features (command line):
978 - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing
979 command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by
982 o Minor features (command-line interface):
983 - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease
984 reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102.
985 - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument,
986 treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-'
987 character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of
988 our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223.
989 - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command
990 line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the
991 --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519
992 relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
994 o Minor features (compatibility):
995 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
996 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
997 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1000 o Minor features (control port, stream handling):
1001 - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event.
1002 Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1004 o Minor features (dormant mode):
1005 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained
1006 control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from
1007 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
1008 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained
1009 control over whether the client can become dormant from
1010 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
1012 o Minor features (geoip data):
1013 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1014 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1016 o Minor features (logging):
1017 - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the
1018 string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch
1020 - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on
1021 what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if
1022 any). Closes ticket 40308.
1023 - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c,
1024 put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket
1025 40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1027 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
1028 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
1029 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
1030 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
1031 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
1033 o Minor features (onion services):
1034 - Add a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer
1035 supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373.
1037 o Minor features (performance, windows):
1038 - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the
1039 "critical section" locking implementation with the faster
1040 SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927.
1041 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1043 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
1044 - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data
1045 before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017.
1047 o Minor features (tests, portability):
1048 - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent
1049 versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from
1052 o Minor features (vote document):
1053 - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various
1054 statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will
1055 help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314.
1057 o Minor bugfixes (build):
1058 - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have
1059 been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug
1060 40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1062 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1063 - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa"
1064 architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other
1065 architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix
1068 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1069 - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building
1070 with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug
1071 40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1073 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling):
1074 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
1075 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
1076 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
1077 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1079 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
1080 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1081 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
1082 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
1083 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
1084 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
1087 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting):
1088 - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that
1089 authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or
1090 maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the
1091 authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under
1092 most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
1094 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
1095 - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some
1096 rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable
1097 NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix
1098 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1100 o Minor bugfixes (key generation):
1101 - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to
1102 generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems
1103 or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on
1104 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1106 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1107 - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't
1108 use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1110 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
1111 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
1112 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
1115 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging):
1116 - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related
1117 warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on
1118 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1120 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1121 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
1122 This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches.
1123 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1125 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD):
1126 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
1127 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1130 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1131 - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions.
1132 (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383.
1133 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1136 - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory
1137 documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2
1138 onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374.
1139 - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion
1140 services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support
1141 will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage
1142 everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information,
1143 see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes
1144 ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version
1145 of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for
1148 o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS):
1149 - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its
1150 configuration options. Closes ticket 40261.
1152 o Documentation (manual):
1153 - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section.
1155 - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to
1156 bridges. Closes ticket 40346.
1157 - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section
1158 "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323.
1160 o Removed features (relay):
1161 - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer
1162 advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been
1163 disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay
1164 not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work,
1165 for now.) Closes ticket 40282.
1168 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
1169 Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
1170 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1171 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1172 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1174 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1175 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1176 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1177 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1178 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1179 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1180 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1182 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1183 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1184 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1185 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1186 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1187 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1188 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1189 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1191 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1192 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1193 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1194 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1195 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1196 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1197 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1198 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1199 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1200 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1201 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1202 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1203 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1204 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1205 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1207 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1208 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1209 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1210 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1213 o Minor features (geoip data):
1214 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1215 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1217 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1218 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1219 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
1220 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
1221 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
1222 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
1225 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1226 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
1227 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
1231 Changes in version 0.4.4.9 - 2021-06-14
1232 Tor 0.4.4.9 fixes several security issues, including a
1233 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1234 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1235 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1237 Note that the scheduled end-of-life date for the Tor 0.4.4.x series is
1238 June 15. This is therefore the last release in its series. Everybody
1239 still running 0.4.4.x should plan to upgrade to 0.4.5.x or later.
1241 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1242 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1243 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1244 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1245 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1246 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1247 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1249 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1250 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1251 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1252 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1253 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1254 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1255 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1256 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1258 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1259 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1260 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1261 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1262 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1263 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1264 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1265 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1266 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1267 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1268 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1269 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1270 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1271 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1272 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1274 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1275 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1276 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1277 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1280 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1281 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1282 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1284 o Minor features (geoip data):
1285 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1286 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1288 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1289 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
1290 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
1291 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
1293 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1294 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1295 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1298 Changes in version 0.3.5.15 - 2021-06-14
1299 Tor 0.3.5.15 fixes several security issues, including a
1300 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1301 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1302 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1304 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1305 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1306 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1307 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1308 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1309 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1310 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1312 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1313 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1314 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1315 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1316 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1317 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1318 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1319 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1321 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1322 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1323 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1324 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1325 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1326 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1327 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1328 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1329 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1330 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1331 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1332 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1333 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1334 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1335 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1337 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1338 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1339 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1341 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1342 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1343 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1344 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1347 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1348 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1349 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1351 o Minor features (geoip data):
1352 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1353 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1356 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
1357 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
1358 from the 0.4.6.x series.
1360 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1361 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
1362 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
1363 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
1364 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
1366 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1367 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
1368 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
1370 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1371 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1372 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1374 o Minor features (geoip data):
1375 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1376 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
1378 o Minor features (onion services):
1379 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
1380 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
1381 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
1383 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1384 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
1385 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
1386 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
1388 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1389 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
1390 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
1391 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1393 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1394 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
1395 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
1396 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
1398 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1399 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1400 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1402 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
1403 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
1404 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
1405 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1407 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1408 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
1409 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
1410 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1412 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1413 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
1414 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1418 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
1419 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
1420 in earlier versions of Tor.
1422 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
1423 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
1424 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
1425 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
1426 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
1427 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
1428 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
1429 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
1430 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
1433 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
1434 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
1437 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
1438 compatibility issue.
1440 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1441 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
1442 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
1443 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
1444 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1445 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
1446 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
1447 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
1448 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
1451 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1452 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
1453 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
1454 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
1455 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
1456 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
1457 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
1458 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
1461 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1462 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
1463 Closes ticket 40309.
1466 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
1467 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
1468 in earlier versions of Tor.
1470 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
1471 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
1472 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
1473 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
1474 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
1475 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
1476 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
1477 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
1478 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
1481 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
1482 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
1485 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
1486 compatibility issue.
1488 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1489 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
1490 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
1491 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
1492 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1493 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
1494 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
1495 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
1496 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
1499 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1500 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
1501 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
1502 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
1503 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
1504 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
1505 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
1506 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
1509 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1510 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
1511 Closes ticket 40309.
1514 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
1515 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
1518 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
1519 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
1520 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
1521 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
1522 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
1523 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
1524 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
1525 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
1526 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
1529 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
1530 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
1533 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
1534 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
1536 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
1537 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
1538 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
1539 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
1540 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1541 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
1542 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
1543 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
1544 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
1547 o Minor features (geoip data):
1548 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
1549 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
1550 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
1551 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
1552 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
1553 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
1554 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
1557 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
1558 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
1559 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
1560 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
1561 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
1563 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
1564 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
1565 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1567 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
1568 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
1569 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
1570 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
1571 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1573 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
1574 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
1575 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1577 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1578 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
1579 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1581 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1582 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
1583 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1585 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1586 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
1587 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1588 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
1589 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
1590 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
1591 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
1592 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
1594 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
1595 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
1596 Closes ticket 40309.
1599 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
1600 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
1601 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
1602 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
1603 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
1604 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
1605 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
1606 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
1607 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
1608 welcoming approach to growing our community.
1610 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
1611 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
1612 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
1613 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
1614 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
1615 smaller features and bugfixes.
1617 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.7. For a list of changes since
1618 0.4.5.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1620 o Major features (build):
1621 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
1622 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
1623 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
1624 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
1625 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
1627 o Major features (metrics):
1628 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
1629 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
1630 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
1631 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
1632 information and security considerations.
1634 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
1635 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
1636 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
1637 Closes ticket 33233.
1638 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
1639 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
1640 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
1641 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
1642 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
1643 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
1644 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
1645 use. Closes ticket 33220.
1646 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
1647 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
1648 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
1649 Closes ticket 34067.
1651 o Major features (tracing):
1652 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
1653 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
1654 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
1655 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
1656 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
1658 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
1659 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
1660 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
1661 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
1662 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1664 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
1665 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
1666 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
1667 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
1668 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
1669 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
1670 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1672 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
1673 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
1674 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
1675 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
1676 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
1677 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
1679 o Minor features (address discovery):
1680 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
1681 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
1682 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
1683 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
1685 o Minor features (admin tools):
1686 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
1687 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
1688 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
1691 o Minor features (authority, logging):
1692 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
1693 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
1694 Closes ticket 40245.
1696 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
1697 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
1698 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
1699 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
1700 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
1701 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
1703 o Minor features (build):
1704 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
1705 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
1706 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
1707 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
1708 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
1710 o Minor features (configuration):
1711 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
1712 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1713 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
1714 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
1715 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
1716 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1718 o Minor features (control port):
1719 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
1720 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
1721 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
1722 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
1724 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
1725 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
1726 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
1729 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
1730 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
1731 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
1732 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
1733 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
1734 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
1735 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1737 o Minor features (directory authorities):
1738 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
1739 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
1741 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
1742 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
1743 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1744 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
1745 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
1746 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
1747 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
1748 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
1749 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
1750 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
1751 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
1753 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
1754 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
1755 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
1756 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
1758 o Minor features (documentation):
1759 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
1760 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
1761 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
1763 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
1764 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
1765 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
1766 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1768 o Minor features (heartbeat):
1769 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
1770 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
1772 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
1773 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
1774 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1776 o Minor features (logging):
1777 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
1778 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
1779 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
1780 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
1781 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
1782 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
1784 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
1785 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
1786 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
1787 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
1789 o Minor features (onion services):
1790 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
1791 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
1792 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1794 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
1795 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
1796 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
1797 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
1798 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
1799 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
1801 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
1802 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
1803 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
1804 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
1805 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
1807 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
1808 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
1809 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
1810 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
1811 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
1812 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
1813 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
1815 o Minor features (relay):
1816 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
1817 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
1818 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
1819 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
1820 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
1821 Closes ticket 34137.
1823 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
1824 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
1825 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
1828 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
1829 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
1830 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
1831 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
1832 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
1833 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
1834 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
1835 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
1836 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
1838 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
1839 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
1841 o Minor features (safety):
1842 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
1843 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
1846 o Minor features (specification update):
1847 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
1848 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
1849 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
1851 o Minor features (state management):
1852 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
1853 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
1854 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
1855 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
1856 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
1858 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
1859 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
1860 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
1861 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
1862 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
1864 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
1865 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
1866 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
1868 o Minor features (testing configuration):
1869 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
1870 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
1871 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
1872 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
1874 o Minor features (testing):
1875 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
1876 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
1878 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
1879 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
1880 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
1881 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
1883 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
1884 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
1885 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1886 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
1887 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
1888 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
1889 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
1890 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
1891 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1893 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
1894 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
1895 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
1896 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
1897 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
1898 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1900 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1901 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
1902 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
1903 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
1904 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
1905 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
1908 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
1909 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
1910 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
1911 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
1912 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
1913 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
1916 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
1917 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
1918 when a stream is attached with the purpose
1919 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
1920 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1922 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
1923 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
1924 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
1925 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1927 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1928 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
1929 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
1930 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
1931 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
1932 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1933 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
1934 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
1936 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
1937 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
1938 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1939 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
1940 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
1941 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
1942 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
1943 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
1946 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1947 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
1948 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
1949 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
1951 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
1952 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
1953 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
1954 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1955 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
1956 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
1957 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1959 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
1960 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
1961 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
1962 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
1963 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
1964 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1966 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
1967 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
1968 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1970 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
1971 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
1972 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1973 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
1974 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
1975 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
1976 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
1977 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1979 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1980 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
1981 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
1982 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
1983 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
1984 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
1985 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
1986 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
1987 Closes ticket 34200.
1988 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
1989 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
1990 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
1991 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
1992 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
1993 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
1994 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
1996 - Split implementation of several command line options from
1997 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
1998 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
1999 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
2000 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
2001 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
2004 o Deprecated features:
2005 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
2006 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
2007 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
2010 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
2011 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
2014 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
2015 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
2016 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
2017 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
2019 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
2020 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
2022 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
2023 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
2024 directory. Closes part of 40139.
2025 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
2026 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
2030 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
2031 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2033 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
2034 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
2035 31699; Patch by @bduszel
2037 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
2038 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
2039 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
2040 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
2041 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
2043 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
2044 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
2045 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
2046 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
2047 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
2049 o Documentation (manual page):
2050 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
2051 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
2052 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
2053 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
2055 o Documentation (tracing):
2056 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
2057 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
2059 o Removed features (controller):
2060 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
2061 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
2064 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
2065 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2066 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2067 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2068 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2070 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2071 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2072 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2073 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2074 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2077 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2078 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2079 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2080 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2083 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2084 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2085 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2086 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2088 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2089 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2090 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2091 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2092 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2094 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2095 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2096 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2097 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2098 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2099 weasel for diagnosing this.
2101 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2102 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2103 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2104 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2105 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2106 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2107 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2109 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2110 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2111 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2112 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2114 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2115 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2116 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2117 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2119 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2120 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2121 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2122 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2123 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2124 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2125 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2127 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2128 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2131 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
2132 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2133 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2134 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2135 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2137 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
2138 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
2140 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2141 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2142 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2143 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2144 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2147 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2148 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2149 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2150 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2151 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2153 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2154 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2155 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2156 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2159 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2160 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2161 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2162 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2164 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2165 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2166 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2167 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2168 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2170 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2171 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2172 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2173 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2174 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2175 weasel for diagnosing this.
2177 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2178 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2179 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2180 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2181 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2182 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2183 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2185 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2186 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2187 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2189 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2190 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2191 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2192 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2194 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2195 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2196 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2197 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2199 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2200 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2201 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2202 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2203 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2204 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2205 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2207 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2208 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2211 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
2212 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2213 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2214 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2215 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2217 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2218 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2219 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2220 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2221 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2224 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2225 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2226 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2227 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2228 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2230 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2231 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2232 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2233 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2236 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2237 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2238 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2239 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2241 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2242 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2243 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2244 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2245 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2247 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2248 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2249 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2250 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2251 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2252 weasel for diagnosing this.
2254 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2255 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2256 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2257 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2258 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2259 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2260 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2262 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2263 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2264 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2266 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2267 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2268 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2269 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2271 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2272 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2273 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2274 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2276 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2277 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2278 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2279 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2281 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2282 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2285 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
2286 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
2287 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
2288 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
2289 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
2290 intended for a different relay.
2292 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2293 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2294 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2295 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2296 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
2297 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
2298 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
2300 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2301 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
2302 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
2303 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
2304 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
2305 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
2306 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
2307 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
2308 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
2309 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
2310 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
2312 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2313 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2314 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2315 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2316 closes ticket 40133.
2318 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2319 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2320 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2322 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2323 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2324 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2326 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2327 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
2328 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
2329 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
2330 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2331 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2333 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2334 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2335 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2337 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2338 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2339 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2342 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2343 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
2344 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
2345 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2348 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
2349 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
2350 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
2351 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
2352 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
2354 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
2355 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
2356 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
2359 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2360 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
2361 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
2362 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
2364 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2365 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2366 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2367 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2368 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
2369 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
2370 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
2372 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2373 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
2374 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
2375 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
2376 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
2379 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2380 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
2381 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
2382 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
2383 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
2384 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
2386 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2387 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2388 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2389 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2390 closes ticket 40133.
2392 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2393 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
2394 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
2395 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
2397 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2398 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2399 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2401 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2402 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2403 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2405 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2406 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
2407 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
2408 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
2409 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2411 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2412 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2413 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2415 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2416 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
2417 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
2418 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
2419 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
2420 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
2421 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2423 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2424 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2425 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2428 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2429 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
2430 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
2431 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
2432 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
2433 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
2436 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
2437 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
2438 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
2439 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2441 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2442 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
2443 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
2444 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2446 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2447 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
2448 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
2450 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2451 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
2454 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2455 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
2456 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
2457 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
2458 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
2459 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
2460 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
2463 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
2464 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
2465 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
2466 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
2467 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
2469 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2470 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
2471 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
2472 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
2474 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2475 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2476 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2477 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2478 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
2479 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
2480 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
2482 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2483 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
2484 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
2485 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
2486 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
2489 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2490 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
2491 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
2492 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
2493 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
2494 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
2496 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
2497 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
2498 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
2499 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
2501 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2502 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2503 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2504 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2505 closes ticket 40133.
2507 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2508 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
2509 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
2510 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
2512 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2513 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2514 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2516 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2517 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2518 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2520 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2521 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
2522 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
2523 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
2524 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2526 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2527 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2528 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2530 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2531 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
2532 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
2533 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
2534 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
2535 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
2536 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2538 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2539 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2540 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2543 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2544 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
2545 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
2546 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
2547 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
2548 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
2551 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2552 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
2553 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
2554 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2556 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
2557 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
2558 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
2559 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2561 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2562 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
2563 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
2565 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2566 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
2569 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
2570 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
2571 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
2572 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
2573 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
2574 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
2575 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
2577 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
2578 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
2579 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
2580 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
2581 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
2583 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
2584 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
2585 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
2587 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
2588 since 0.4.4.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
2590 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
2591 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
2592 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
2593 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
2594 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
2595 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
2596 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
2597 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
2598 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
2599 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
2601 o Major features (fallback directory list):
2602 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
2603 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
2604 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
2606 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
2607 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
2608 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
2609 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
2610 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
2611 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
2612 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
2614 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
2616 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
2617 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
2618 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
2619 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
2621 o Major features (v3 onion services):
2622 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
2623 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
2624 Closes ticket 32709.
2626 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
2627 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
2628 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
2629 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
2630 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
2633 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
2634 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
2635 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
2636 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
2637 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
2638 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2640 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
2641 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2642 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2643 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2644 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2646 o Minor features (security):
2647 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
2648 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
2649 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
2650 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
2651 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
2653 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
2654 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
2655 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
2656 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
2657 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
2660 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
2661 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
2662 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
2663 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
2664 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
2665 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
2666 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
2668 o Minor features (code safety):
2669 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
2670 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
2671 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
2672 Resolves issue 33788.
2674 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2675 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
2676 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
2677 Resolves ticket 32143.
2679 o Minor features (control port):
2680 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
2681 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
2682 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2683 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
2684 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
2685 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
2686 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2688 o Minor features (defense in depth):
2689 - Wipe more data from connection address fields before returning
2690 them to the memory heap. Closes ticket 6198.
2692 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
2693 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
2694 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
2695 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
2696 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
2697 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
2699 o Minor features (developer tooling):
2700 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
2701 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
2702 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
2703 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
2704 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
2705 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
2706 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
2708 o Minor features (directory authority):
2709 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
2710 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
2711 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
2712 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
2713 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
2715 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
2716 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
2717 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
2718 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
2720 o Minor features (directory):
2721 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
2722 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
2723 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
2726 o Minor features (entry guards):
2727 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
2728 Closes ticket 40001.
2730 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
2731 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
2732 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
2734 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
2735 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
2736 Closes ticket 33901.
2738 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
2739 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
2740 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
2741 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
2742 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
2743 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
2744 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
2746 o Minor features (logging):
2747 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
2748 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
2750 o Minor features (onion service client, SOCKS5):
2751 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
2752 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
2753 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
2756 o Minor features (onion service v3):
2757 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
2758 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2760 o Minor features (python scripts):
2761 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
2762 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
2763 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
2764 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
2766 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
2767 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
2768 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
2769 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
2770 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
2771 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
2772 up from ticket 33316.
2773 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
2774 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
2775 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
2777 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
2778 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
2779 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
2780 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2782 o Minor features (windows):
2783 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
2784 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
2786 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
2787 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
2788 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
2789 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2791 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers):
2792 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
2793 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
2794 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
2795 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2797 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
2798 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
2799 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
2800 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
2801 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
2802 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
2804 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
2805 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
2806 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
2807 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2809 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
2810 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
2811 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
2812 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
2813 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2815 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
2816 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
2817 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2819 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
2820 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
2821 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
2822 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
2823 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
2824 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2825 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
2826 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
2827 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
2828 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2830 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2831 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
2832 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
2833 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
2834 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
2836 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
2837 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
2838 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
2839 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
2842 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
2843 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
2844 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
2845 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
2846 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2847 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
2848 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2850 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
2851 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
2852 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
2854 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3 client):
2855 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
2856 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2858 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
2859 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
2860 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2862 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
2863 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
2864 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
2867 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
2868 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
2869 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
2872 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports):
2873 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
2874 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
2875 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
2876 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
2877 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
2878 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2880 o Minor bugfixes (refactoring):
2881 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
2882 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
2883 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
2885 o Minor bugfixes (relay, self-testing):
2886 - When starting up as a relay, if we haven't been able to verify
2887 that we're reachable, only launch reachability tests at most once
2888 a minute. Previously, we had been launching tests up to once a
2889 second, which was needlessly noisy. Fixes bug 40083; bugfix
2892 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
2893 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
2894 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
2895 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
2896 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
2897 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
2900 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS, onion service client):
2901 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
2902 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
2905 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
2906 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
2907 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
2908 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2910 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
2911 - Remove a BUG() warning that could trigger in certain unlikely
2912 edge-cases. Fixes bug 34086; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2913 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
2914 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
2917 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
2918 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
2919 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
2921 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2922 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
2923 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
2924 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
2925 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2926 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
2927 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
2928 isolated in subsystems of their own.
2929 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
2930 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
2931 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
2932 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
2934 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
2935 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2936 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
2937 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
2939 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
2940 code. Closes ticket 33014.
2941 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
2942 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
2945 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
2946 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
2947 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
2948 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
2949 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
2950 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2953 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
2954 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
2955 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
2956 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
2957 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
2958 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
2959 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
2960 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
2961 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
2962 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
2963 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2964 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
2965 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
2968 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
2969 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
2970 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
2971 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
2972 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
2973 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2974 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
2975 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
2977 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
2978 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2980 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2981 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2982 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
2983 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
2984 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
2985 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
2986 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
2987 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
2988 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
2989 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
2990 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2991 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2993 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
2994 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
2997 o Documentation (manual page):
2998 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
2999 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
3000 Google Season of Docs.
3001 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
3002 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
3003 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
3004 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
3005 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
3006 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
3007 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
3008 Closes ticket 33778.
3011 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
3012 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
3013 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
3015 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3016 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3017 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3018 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3019 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3020 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3021 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3024 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3025 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3026 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3027 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3030 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3031 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3032 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3033 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3034 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3035 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3037 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3038 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3039 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3040 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3041 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3042 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3044 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3045 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3046 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3048 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3049 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3050 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3051 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3054 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3055 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3056 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3057 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3060 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
3061 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3062 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3063 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3064 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3066 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3067 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3068 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3070 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3071 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3072 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3073 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3074 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3077 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3078 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3079 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3080 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3081 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3082 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3084 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3085 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3086 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3087 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3089 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3090 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3091 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3092 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3095 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3096 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3097 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3098 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3099 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3100 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3101 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3102 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3106 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
3107 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
3108 several that affect usability and portability.
3110 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3111 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3112 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3113 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3114 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3115 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3116 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3119 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3120 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3121 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3122 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3125 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3126 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3127 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3128 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3129 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3130 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3132 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
3133 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
3134 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
3135 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
3136 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
3138 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3139 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
3140 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
3141 code. Closes ticket 33290.
3143 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3144 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3145 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3146 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3147 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3148 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3150 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3151 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3152 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3154 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3155 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3156 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3157 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3160 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3161 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3162 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3163 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3166 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
3167 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3168 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3169 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3170 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3171 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
3174 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3175 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3176 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3178 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3179 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
3180 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
3181 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3183 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3184 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3185 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3186 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3187 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3190 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3191 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3192 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3193 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3194 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3195 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3197 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
3198 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
3199 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
3200 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
3201 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3203 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3204 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
3205 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
3206 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
3208 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3209 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3210 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3211 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3213 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3214 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3215 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3216 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3219 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3220 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3221 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3222 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3223 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3224 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3225 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3226 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3230 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
3231 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
3232 some affecting usability.
3234 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3235 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3236 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3237 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3238 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3239 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3240 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3243 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3244 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3245 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3246 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3249 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3250 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3251 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3253 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3254 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3255 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3256 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3259 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3260 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3261 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3263 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3264 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
3265 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
3266 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3268 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3269 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3270 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3271 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3273 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3274 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
3275 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3277 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3278 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
3279 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
3280 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
3281 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3283 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3284 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
3285 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
3287 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3288 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
3289 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
3290 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3292 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3293 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
3297 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
3298 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
3299 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
3300 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
3301 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
3302 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
3305 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
3306 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
3307 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
3308 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
3309 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
3311 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
3312 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
3313 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
3316 Below are the changes since 0.4.2.6. For a list of only the changes
3317 since 0.4.3.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
3319 o New system requirements:
3320 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
3321 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
3322 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
3324 o Major features (build system):
3325 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
3326 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
3327 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
3328 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
3329 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
3331 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
3332 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
3333 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
3334 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
3335 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3337 o Major features (onion services):
3338 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
3339 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
3340 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
3341 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
3342 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
3343 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
3344 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
3346 o Major features (proxy):
3347 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
3348 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
3349 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
3350 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
3351 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
3352 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
3354 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
3355 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
3356 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
3357 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
3358 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
3359 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
3360 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3361 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
3362 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
3364 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
3365 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
3366 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
3367 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
3368 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
3370 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
3371 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
3372 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
3373 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
3374 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
3376 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
3377 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3378 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3379 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3380 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3381 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3383 o Major bugfixes (networking):
3384 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
3385 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
3386 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3388 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
3389 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
3390 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
3391 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
3392 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
3393 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3395 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
3396 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
3397 message. Closes ticket 31371.
3399 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
3400 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
3401 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
3402 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
3403 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
3405 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
3406 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
3407 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
3408 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
3410 o Minor features (configuration validation):
3411 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
3412 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
3413 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
3414 Closes ticket 31241.
3416 o Minor features (configuration):
3417 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
3418 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
3420 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
3421 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
3422 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
3423 Implements ticket 32404.
3425 o Minor features (configure, build system):
3426 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
3427 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
3429 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3430 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
3431 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
3432 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
3433 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
3434 Closes ticket 33075.
3436 o Minor features (controller):
3437 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
3438 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
3439 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
3441 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
3442 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
3443 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
3444 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
3446 o Minor features (defense in depth):
3447 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
3448 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
3451 o Minor features (developer tools):
3452 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
3453 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
3454 Closes ticket 32772.
3455 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
3456 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
3457 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
3458 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
3459 target. Closes ticket 31919.
3460 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
3461 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
3462 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
3464 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
3465 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
3466 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
3467 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
3469 o Minor features (diagnostic):
3470 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
3471 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
3472 code. Closes ticket 33290.
3474 o Minor features (directory authorities):
3475 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
3476 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
3477 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3479 o Minor features (Doxygen):
3480 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
3481 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
3482 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
3484 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
3485 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
3486 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
3487 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
3488 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
3489 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
3490 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
3491 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
3493 o Minor features (git scripts):
3494 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
3495 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
3496 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
3497 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
3498 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
3499 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
3500 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
3501 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
3502 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
3503 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
3504 Closes ticket 32216.
3505 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
3506 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
3507 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
3508 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
3510 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
3511 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
3512 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
3513 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
3514 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
3515 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
3517 o Minor features (portability, android):
3518 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
3519 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
3520 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
3522 o Minor features (relay modularity):
3523 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
3524 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
3525 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
3526 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
3527 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
3528 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
3529 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
3530 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
3531 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
3533 o Minor features (release tools):
3534 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
3535 Closes ticket 32704.
3537 o Minor features (testing):
3538 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3539 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3540 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3541 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3542 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3543 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
3544 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
3545 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
3546 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
3547 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
3548 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
3550 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
3551 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
3552 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
3554 o Minor features (usability):
3555 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
3556 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
3557 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
3559 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
3560 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3561 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3562 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3565 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
3566 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
3567 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
3569 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
3570 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
3571 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
3573 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
3574 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3575 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3576 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3577 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3578 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
3581 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
3582 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
3583 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
3584 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3585 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
3586 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
3587 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
3588 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
3589 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
3590 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
3591 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
3592 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
3593 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
3594 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3595 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
3596 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
3597 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
3598 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3600 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
3601 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
3604 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
3605 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
3606 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
3607 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3609 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3610 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
3611 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
3614 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
3615 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
3616 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
3618 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
3619 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
3620 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
3621 Closes ticket 32213.
3622 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
3623 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
3624 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3626 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
3627 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3628 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3629 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3630 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3633 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
3634 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
3636 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
3637 Closes ticket 32216.
3639 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
3640 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3641 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3642 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3643 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3644 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3646 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3647 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
3648 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3649 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
3650 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
3651 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
3652 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
3653 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
3655 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
3656 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
3657 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
3658 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
3660 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
3661 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
3662 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
3663 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3665 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v2):
3666 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
3667 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
3668 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
3669 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
3670 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
3671 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
3672 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
3675 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
3676 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3677 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3678 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3680 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
3681 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
3682 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
3683 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3684 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
3685 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
3686 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3688 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
3689 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
3690 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
3691 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
3692 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3694 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3695 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
3696 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
3697 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
3700 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, all):
3701 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
3702 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
3703 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
3704 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3706 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
3707 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
3708 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
3709 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3711 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
3712 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
3713 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
3714 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3716 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
3717 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
3718 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3720 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3721 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
3722 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
3723 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
3725 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
3726 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3727 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
3728 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
3729 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
3730 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
3731 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3733 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
3734 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
3735 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
3736 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
3737 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
3739 o Deprecated features:
3740 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
3741 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
3742 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
3746 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
3747 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
3748 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
3749 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
3750 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
3751 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
3752 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
3753 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
3755 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
3756 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
3759 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
3760 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
3761 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
3762 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
3763 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
3764 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
3766 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
3767 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
3768 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
3769 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
3770 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
3773 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
3774 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
3775 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
3776 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
3777 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
3779 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
3780 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
3782 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
3783 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
3784 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
3785 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
3786 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
3789 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
3790 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
3791 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
3793 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
3794 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
3795 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
3796 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
3797 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
3798 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
3799 Solves part of ticket 32339.
3800 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
3801 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
3802 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
3803 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
3804 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
3805 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
3806 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
3807 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
3808 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
3809 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
3811 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
3812 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
3814 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
3815 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
3816 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
3818 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
3819 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
3820 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
3821 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
3822 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
3823 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
3825 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
3826 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
3827 Closes ticket 32163.
3828 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
3830 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
3832 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
3833 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
3834 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
3836 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
3837 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
3838 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
3839 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
3840 Closes ticket 32304.
3841 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
3842 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
3843 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
3844 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
3845 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
3848 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
3849 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
3851 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
3854 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
3855 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
3856 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
3857 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
3858 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
3859 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
3860 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
3861 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
3863 o Documentation (manpage):
3864 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
3865 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
3866 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
3867 Google Season of Docs.
3868 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
3869 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
3870 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
3871 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
3872 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
3873 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
3875 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
3877 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
3878 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
3879 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
3881 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
3882 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
3883 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
3885 o Testing (Appveyor CI):
3886 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3887 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3888 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3889 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3890 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3891 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3892 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3895 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
3896 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
3899 o Testing (Travis CI):
3900 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3901 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
3902 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3904 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3905 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3906 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3907 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3908 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3911 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
3912 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
3913 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
3914 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
3915 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
3916 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
3917 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
3918 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
3919 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
3920 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
3921 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
3922 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
3924 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
3925 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
3926 as soon as packages are available.
3928 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3929 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
3930 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
3931 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
3932 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
3933 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
3934 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3935 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
3936 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
3938 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3939 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
3940 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
3941 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
3942 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
3944 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3945 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
3946 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
3947 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
3948 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
3950 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3951 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
3952 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
3953 Closes ticket 33075.
3955 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3956 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
3957 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
3959 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3960 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
3961 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
3962 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
3963 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
3966 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3967 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
3968 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
3969 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3972 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3973 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
3974 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
3975 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3977 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3978 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3979 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
3980 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3982 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3983 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3984 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3985 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3986 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3989 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
3990 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
3991 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
3992 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
3993 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
3994 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
3995 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
3996 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
3997 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
3998 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
3999 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
4000 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
4002 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4003 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4004 as soon as packages are available.
4006 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4007 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4008 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4009 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4010 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4011 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4012 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4013 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4014 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4016 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4017 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4018 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4019 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4020 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4022 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4023 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4024 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4026 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4027 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4028 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4029 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4030 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4033 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4034 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4035 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4036 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4039 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4040 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4041 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4042 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4044 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4045 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4046 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4047 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4049 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4050 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4051 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4052 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4053 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4056 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
4057 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
4058 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
4059 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
4060 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
4061 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
4062 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
4063 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
4064 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
4065 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
4066 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
4069 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4070 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4071 as soon as packages are available.
4073 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4074 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4075 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4076 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4077 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4078 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4079 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4080 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4081 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4083 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4084 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4085 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4086 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4087 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
4088 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4089 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4090 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4093 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4094 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4095 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4096 Closes ticket 33075.
4098 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4099 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4100 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4102 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4103 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4104 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4105 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4106 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4108 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4109 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4110 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4111 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4112 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4115 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4116 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4117 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4118 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4121 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4122 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4123 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4124 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4126 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4127 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4128 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4129 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4130 Closes ticket 32629.
4131 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4132 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4133 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4135 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4136 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4138 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4139 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4140 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4141 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4143 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4144 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4145 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4146 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4149 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
4150 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
4151 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
4152 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
4153 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
4154 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
4156 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4157 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4158 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4159 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4160 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
4161 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4162 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4163 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4165 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
4166 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
4167 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
4169 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4170 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
4171 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
4172 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4174 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4175 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
4176 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
4177 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4179 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4180 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
4181 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
4182 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4183 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
4184 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
4187 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4188 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
4189 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4191 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4192 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4193 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4194 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4195 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4196 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4197 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4198 Closes ticket 32629.
4200 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4201 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4204 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
4205 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
4206 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
4207 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
4208 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
4209 current version of 0.4.1.x.
4211 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4212 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4213 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4214 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4215 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
4216 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4217 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4218 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4220 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
4221 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
4222 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
4224 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
4225 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4226 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4227 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4228 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4230 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4231 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
4232 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4234 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4235 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4236 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4237 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4238 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4239 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4240 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4241 Closes ticket 32629.
4243 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4244 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4247 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
4248 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
4249 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
4250 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
4251 bugs present in previous series.
4253 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
4254 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
4255 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
4256 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
4258 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of only
4259 the changes since 0.4.2.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
4261 o Major features (directory authorities):
4262 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
4263 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
4264 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
4266 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
4267 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
4268 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
4269 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
4270 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
4271 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
4274 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
4275 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
4276 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
4277 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
4278 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
4279 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
4282 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
4283 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
4284 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
4285 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
4286 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4287 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
4288 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
4289 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
4290 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4292 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
4293 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
4294 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
4295 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4297 o Major bugfixes (relay):
4298 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
4299 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
4300 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
4301 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
4302 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
4303 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
4304 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4306 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
4307 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
4308 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
4309 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
4310 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4312 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
4313 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
4314 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
4315 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
4316 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
4319 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
4320 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
4321 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
4322 Closes ticket 29669.
4324 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
4325 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
4326 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
4327 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
4328 Closes ticket 31779.
4330 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
4331 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
4332 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
4333 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
4334 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
4335 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
4336 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
4337 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
4338 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
4339 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
4340 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
4341 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
4342 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
4343 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
4344 files. Closes ticket 31175.
4346 o Minor features (build system):
4347 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
4348 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
4349 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
4350 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
4351 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
4353 o Minor features (compilation):
4354 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
4355 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
4356 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
4358 o Minor features (configuration):
4359 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
4360 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
4361 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
4362 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
4364 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4365 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
4366 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
4367 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
4368 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
4369 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
4370 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
4372 o Minor features (debugging):
4373 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
4374 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
4375 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
4376 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
4378 o Minor features (geoip):
4379 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4380 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
4382 o Minor features (git hooks):
4383 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
4384 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
4385 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
4386 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
4387 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
4389 o Minor features (git scripts):
4390 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
4391 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
4392 push. Closes ticket 31314.
4393 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
4394 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
4395 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
4396 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
4397 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
4398 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
4399 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
4400 Closes ticket 31314.
4401 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
4402 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
4403 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
4404 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
4405 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
4406 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
4407 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
4408 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
4409 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
4411 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
4412 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
4413 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
4416 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
4417 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
4418 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
4420 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
4421 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
4422 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
4423 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
4424 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
4425 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
4426 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
4428 o Minor features (onion service v3):
4429 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
4430 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
4432 o Minor features (onion service):
4433 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
4434 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
4435 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
4436 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
4438 o Minor features (onion services v3):
4439 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
4440 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
4443 o Minor features (stem tests):
4444 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
4445 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
4448 o Minor features (testing):
4449 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
4450 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
4451 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
4452 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
4453 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
4454 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
4455 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
4456 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
4457 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
4458 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
4459 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
4460 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
4461 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
4462 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
4463 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
4465 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
4466 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
4467 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
4468 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
4470 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
4471 Closes ticket 31859.
4472 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
4473 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
4475 o Minor features (token bucket):
4476 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
4477 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
4479 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
4480 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
4481 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4483 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
4484 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
4485 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
4486 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4487 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
4488 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
4489 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
4490 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
4493 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4494 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
4495 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4496 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
4498 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
4499 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4500 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
4501 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
4502 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4503 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
4504 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4506 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
4507 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
4508 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
4509 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
4510 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
4511 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
4513 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
4514 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
4515 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
4516 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
4517 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
4518 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4520 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
4521 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
4522 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4524 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4525 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
4526 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
4527 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
4528 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
4530 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
4531 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
4532 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4534 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
4535 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
4536 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
4537 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
4539 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
4540 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
4541 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
4542 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
4544 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4545 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
4546 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
4547 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4549 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
4550 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
4551 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
4552 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
4553 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
4554 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
4555 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
4556 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
4557 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
4558 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4560 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
4561 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4562 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4563 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4564 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4566 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
4567 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
4568 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
4571 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
4572 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
4573 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4575 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
4576 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
4577 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
4578 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
4579 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
4580 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4581 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
4582 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
4583 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4584 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
4585 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
4586 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
4589 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
4590 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
4591 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
4592 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
4595 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
4596 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
4597 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
4598 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4600 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
4601 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
4602 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
4603 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4604 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
4605 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4606 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
4607 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
4608 Closes ticket 31678.
4610 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
4611 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
4612 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
4613 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
4614 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4616 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
4617 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
4618 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
4619 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
4620 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4621 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
4622 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
4623 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
4624 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
4627 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4628 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
4629 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4630 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
4631 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4632 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
4633 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
4634 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
4635 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4636 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
4637 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
4638 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
4639 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
4641 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
4642 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
4643 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
4645 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
4646 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
4647 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
4648 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4650 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
4651 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
4652 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
4653 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
4654 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
4657 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
4658 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
4659 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
4662 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
4663 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
4664 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
4667 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
4668 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
4669 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
4671 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
4672 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
4673 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
4674 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
4675 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
4676 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
4678 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
4679 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
4680 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
4681 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
4684 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
4685 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
4686 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
4687 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
4688 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4690 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4691 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
4692 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
4693 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
4694 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
4695 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4697 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
4698 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
4699 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
4700 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4702 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
4703 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
4704 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
4706 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
4707 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
4708 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4710 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4711 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
4712 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
4713 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4715 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
4716 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4717 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4718 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
4719 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4721 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
4722 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
4723 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
4724 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4726 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
4727 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
4728 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
4729 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
4730 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4732 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
4733 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
4734 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
4735 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
4736 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
4739 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4740 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
4741 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
4743 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
4744 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
4745 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
4746 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4747 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
4748 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
4751 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
4752 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
4753 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4755 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
4756 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
4757 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
4760 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
4761 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4762 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
4763 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
4764 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
4765 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4767 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
4768 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
4769 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
4770 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
4771 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4773 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
4774 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4775 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
4776 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
4777 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
4778 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4779 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
4780 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
4781 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
4782 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4784 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4785 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
4786 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
4787 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
4788 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
4789 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
4790 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
4792 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
4796 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
4797 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4798 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
4799 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
4800 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
4801 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
4802 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
4803 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
4805 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
4806 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
4807 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
4808 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
4809 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
4810 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
4811 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
4812 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
4813 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
4814 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
4815 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
4816 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
4817 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
4820 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
4821 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
4822 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
4823 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
4824 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
4825 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
4827 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
4831 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
4832 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
4833 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
4834 Closes ticket 32500.
4835 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
4836 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
4837 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
4838 Closes ticket 30967.
4840 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
4841 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
4842 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
4843 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
4844 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
4845 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
4846 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
4847 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
4848 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
4849 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
4850 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
4851 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
4852 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
4853 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
4854 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
4855 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
4857 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
4858 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
4859 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
4860 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
4861 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
4862 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
4863 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
4864 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
4865 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
4866 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
4868 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
4869 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
4870 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
4872 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
4873 Closes ticket 30806.
4874 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
4875 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
4878 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
4879 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
4880 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
4882 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
4883 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
4884 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
4886 o Testing (continuous integration):
4887 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
4888 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
4889 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
4890 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
4891 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
4892 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
4893 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
4894 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
4895 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
4898 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
4899 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
4900 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
4901 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
4903 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4904 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
4905 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
4906 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
4908 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4909 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
4910 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
4911 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4913 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4914 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
4915 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
4916 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
4917 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
4918 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
4919 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
4920 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4922 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4923 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
4924 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
4925 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
4926 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4928 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4929 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
4930 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
4931 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
4932 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
4935 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4936 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
4937 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
4938 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
4940 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4941 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4942 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
4944 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4945 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
4946 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4948 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4949 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
4950 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
4951 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
4952 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
4953 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4955 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
4956 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
4957 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
4958 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
4960 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4961 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
4962 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
4963 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4964 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
4965 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
4966 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4967 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
4968 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
4969 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
4972 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4973 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
4974 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4975 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
4976 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4977 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
4978 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
4979 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
4980 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4982 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4983 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
4984 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
4985 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4987 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4988 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
4989 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
4990 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
4991 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
4994 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4995 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
4996 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
4998 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4999 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5000 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5002 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5003 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5004 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5006 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5007 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5008 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5009 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5011 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5012 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5013 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5014 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5015 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5017 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5018 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
5019 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5021 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5022 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5023 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5026 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5027 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
5028 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
5030 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5031 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5032 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5033 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5035 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5036 Closes ticket 31859.
5037 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5038 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5040 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5041 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5042 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5043 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5044 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5045 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5046 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5047 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5048 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5049 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5051 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5052 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5053 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5054 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5055 Closes ticket 32500.
5058 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
5059 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
5060 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
5061 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
5062 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5064 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
5065 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
5066 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
5067 support until 1 Feb 2022.
5069 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
5070 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
5073 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5074 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
5075 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
5076 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
5077 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
5078 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
5079 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
5080 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
5081 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
5082 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
5083 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5085 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5086 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5087 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
5088 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
5089 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
5090 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5092 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5093 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
5094 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
5095 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
5096 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5099 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5100 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
5101 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
5102 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
5103 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
5105 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
5106 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
5107 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
5108 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
5111 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5112 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5113 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5114 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5115 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5116 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5117 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5118 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5120 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5121 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5122 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5123 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5124 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5126 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5127 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5128 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5129 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5130 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5133 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5134 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
5135 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
5137 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5138 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
5139 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
5142 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5143 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
5144 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
5146 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5147 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5148 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5149 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5151 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5152 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
5153 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
5154 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
5155 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
5157 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5158 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5159 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5161 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5162 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5163 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5166 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5167 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5168 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5170 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5171 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5172 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5174 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5175 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
5176 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5178 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5179 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
5180 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
5183 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5184 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5185 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5186 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5187 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5188 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5190 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5191 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
5192 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
5193 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
5194 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5196 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5197 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
5198 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
5201 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5202 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
5203 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5205 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5206 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5207 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5208 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5210 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5211 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
5212 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
5213 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5215 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5216 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
5217 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
5218 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5220 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5221 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5222 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5223 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5225 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5226 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
5227 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5228 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
5229 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5230 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
5231 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5233 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5234 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
5235 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
5236 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5238 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5239 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
5240 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
5241 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5243 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5244 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
5245 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
5248 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5249 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5250 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5251 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5252 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5253 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5254 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5256 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5257 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5258 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5259 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5262 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5263 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5264 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5265 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5266 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5268 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5269 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
5270 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
5271 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
5272 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
5274 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5275 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5276 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5279 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5280 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5281 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5282 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5283 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5285 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5286 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5287 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5288 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5290 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5291 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5292 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5293 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5294 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5297 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5298 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
5299 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
5302 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5303 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
5304 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
5305 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5307 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5308 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
5309 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
5310 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
5312 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5313 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
5314 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
5315 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5317 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5318 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
5319 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
5320 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
5323 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5324 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
5325 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
5326 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
5327 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
5328 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
5331 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5332 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5333 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5335 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5336 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5337 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5339 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5340 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5341 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5342 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5344 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5345 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5346 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5348 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5349 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5350 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5351 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5352 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5354 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5355 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5356 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5359 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5360 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5361 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5362 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5363 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5364 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5365 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5366 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5367 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5368 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5370 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5371 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5372 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5373 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5375 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5376 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
5377 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
5378 Resolves issue 29702.
5380 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5381 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
5383 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5384 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
5385 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
5386 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
5389 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5390 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5391 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5392 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5394 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5395 Closes ticket 31859.
5396 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5397 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5399 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5400 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5401 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5402 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5403 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5404 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5405 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5406 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5407 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5408 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5410 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5411 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5412 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5413 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5414 Closes ticket 32500.
5417 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
5418 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
5419 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
5422 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
5423 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
5426 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5427 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
5428 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
5429 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
5430 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
5431 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
5432 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
5433 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
5434 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
5435 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
5436 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5438 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5439 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5440 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
5441 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
5442 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
5443 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5445 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5446 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
5447 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
5448 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
5449 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
5450 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5452 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5453 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
5454 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
5455 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
5456 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5459 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5460 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
5461 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
5462 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
5463 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
5465 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
5466 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
5467 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
5468 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
5471 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5472 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5473 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5474 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5475 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5477 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5478 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5479 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5480 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5481 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5484 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5485 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
5486 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
5487 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
5488 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
5489 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
5490 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
5491 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5493 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5494 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
5495 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
5496 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
5497 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
5500 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5501 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
5502 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
5504 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5505 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
5506 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
5509 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
5510 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
5511 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
5512 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
5514 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5515 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
5516 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
5519 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5520 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
5521 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
5523 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5524 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5525 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5526 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5528 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5529 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
5530 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
5531 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
5532 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
5534 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5535 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5536 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5538 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5539 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
5540 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
5541 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
5543 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5544 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5545 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5548 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5549 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
5550 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
5551 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
5552 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
5553 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
5554 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
5555 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
5556 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
5557 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
5558 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
5559 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
5560 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
5563 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5564 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
5565 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
5566 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
5567 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
5569 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
5570 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
5571 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5573 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5574 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5575 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5577 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5578 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5579 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5581 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5582 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
5583 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
5586 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5587 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
5588 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5590 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5591 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5592 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5593 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5594 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5595 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5597 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5598 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
5599 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
5600 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
5601 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5603 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5604 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
5605 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
5608 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5609 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
5610 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5612 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5613 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
5614 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5616 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5617 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5618 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5619 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5621 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5622 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
5623 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
5624 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5626 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5627 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
5628 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
5629 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5631 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5632 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5633 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5634 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5636 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5637 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
5638 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5639 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
5640 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5641 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
5642 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5644 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5645 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
5646 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
5647 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5649 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5650 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
5651 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
5652 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5654 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5655 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
5656 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
5659 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5660 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5661 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5662 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5663 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5664 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5665 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5667 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5668 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5669 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5670 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5673 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5674 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5675 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5676 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5677 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5679 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5680 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
5681 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5683 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5684 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
5685 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
5686 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
5687 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5688 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
5689 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
5690 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
5691 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5692 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
5693 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5695 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5696 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
5697 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
5698 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
5699 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
5701 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5702 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5703 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5706 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5707 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5708 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5709 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5710 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5712 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5713 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5714 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5715 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5717 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5718 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5719 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5720 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5721 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5724 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5725 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
5726 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
5729 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5730 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
5731 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
5732 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5734 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5735 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
5736 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
5737 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5739 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5740 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
5741 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5743 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5744 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
5745 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
5746 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5748 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5749 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
5750 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
5751 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
5754 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5755 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
5756 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
5757 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
5758 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
5759 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
5762 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5763 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5764 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5765 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5767 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
5768 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
5769 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5771 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5772 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5773 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5775 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5776 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
5777 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
5778 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
5779 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
5780 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
5781 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
5783 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5784 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
5785 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
5788 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5789 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
5790 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
5791 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
5792 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
5793 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
5794 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
5795 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5797 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5798 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
5799 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
5800 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5801 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
5802 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
5805 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5806 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5807 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5808 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5809 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5811 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
5812 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
5813 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
5814 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
5815 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
5816 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
5817 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
5818 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5820 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5821 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5822 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5825 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5826 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5827 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5828 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5829 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5830 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5831 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5832 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5833 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5834 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5836 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5837 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
5838 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
5839 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
5840 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
5841 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5843 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5844 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5845 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5846 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5848 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5849 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
5850 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
5851 Resolves issue 29702.
5853 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5854 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
5856 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5857 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
5858 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
5859 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
5862 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5863 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5864 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5865 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5867 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5868 Closes ticket 31859.
5869 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5870 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5872 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5873 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5874 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5875 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5876 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5877 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5878 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5879 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5880 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5881 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5883 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5884 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5885 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5886 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5887 Closes ticket 32500.
5890 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
5891 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
5892 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
5893 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
5896 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5897 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
5898 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
5899 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
5900 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5901 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
5902 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
5903 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
5904 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5906 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5907 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5908 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5911 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5912 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5913 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5915 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5916 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
5917 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
5918 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
5919 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
5921 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5922 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5923 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5925 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
5926 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
5927 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
5928 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5930 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5931 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5932 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5933 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5936 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5937 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5938 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5939 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5940 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5942 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5943 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5944 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5947 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5948 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5949 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5951 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5952 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5953 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5954 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5955 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5956 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5958 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5959 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5960 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
5961 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
5962 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
5963 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5964 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5965 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5966 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5967 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5969 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5970 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5971 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5972 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5975 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
5976 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
5977 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
5978 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
5979 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
5980 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
5981 bugfixes on earlier versions.
5983 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
5984 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
5985 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5986 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5988 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.5. For a list of only the changes
5989 since 0.4.1.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
5991 o Directory authority changes:
5992 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
5995 o Major features (circuit padding):
5996 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
5997 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
5998 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
5999 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
6000 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
6001 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
6002 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
6003 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
6004 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
6006 o Major features (code organization):
6007 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
6008 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
6009 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
6010 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
6013 o Major features (controller protocol):
6014 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
6015 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
6016 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
6017 Closes ticket 30091.
6019 o Major features (flow control):
6020 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
6021 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
6022 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
6023 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
6024 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
6025 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
6026 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
6028 o Major features (performance):
6029 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
6030 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
6031 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
6033 o Major features (performance, RNG):
6034 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
6035 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
6036 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
6037 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
6038 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
6039 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
6040 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
6041 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
6043 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
6044 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6045 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6046 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6047 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6048 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6049 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6050 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6051 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6052 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6053 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6055 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
6056 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
6057 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
6059 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6060 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6061 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6062 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6063 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6065 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
6066 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6067 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6068 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6069 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6072 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
6073 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6074 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6075 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6076 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6078 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6079 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6080 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6081 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6084 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
6085 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
6086 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
6087 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
6088 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
6089 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
6092 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
6093 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to protocol
6094 warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID fields to help
6095 with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
6097 o Minor features (circuit padding):
6098 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
6100 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
6101 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
6102 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
6103 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
6104 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6105 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
6106 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
6108 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
6109 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6110 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6112 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6113 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6114 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6115 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
6116 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
6118 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6119 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6121 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6123 o Minor features (controller):
6124 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
6125 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
6126 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6128 o Minor features (debugging):
6129 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
6130 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
6131 can use format strings to include information for trouble
6132 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
6134 o Minor features (defense in depth):
6135 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
6136 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
6137 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
6138 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
6139 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
6140 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
6141 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
6142 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
6143 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
6145 o Minor features (developer tools):
6146 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
6147 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
6148 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
6149 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
6150 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
6152 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
6153 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
6155 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
6156 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
6158 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
6159 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6160 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6161 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6162 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6164 o Minor features (geoip):
6165 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6166 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
6167 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6168 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
6170 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
6171 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
6172 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
6174 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
6175 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
6176 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
6177 addresses. Implements 26992.
6179 o Minor features (logging):
6180 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
6181 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
6182 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
6183 Closes ticket 30686.
6185 o Minor features (maintenance):
6186 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
6187 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
6188 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
6190 o Minor features (modularity):
6191 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
6192 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
6194 o Minor features (performance):
6195 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
6196 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
6197 Closes ticket 28837.
6199 o Minor features (testing):
6200 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
6201 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
6202 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
6203 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
6205 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
6206 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
6207 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
6208 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
6209 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
6210 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
6211 Implements ticket 29732.
6212 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
6213 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
6215 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
6216 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
6218 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
6219 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
6220 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
6221 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
6222 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
6223 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6225 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
6226 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
6227 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
6228 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6230 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
6231 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6232 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6234 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
6235 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
6236 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6237 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
6238 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
6239 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
6240 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6241 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
6242 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
6243 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6244 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
6245 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6246 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
6247 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
6248 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6249 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
6250 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
6251 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6253 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
6254 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6255 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6256 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6257 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6259 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
6260 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
6261 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
6262 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
6263 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
6264 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6266 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
6267 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6268 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix on
6271 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6272 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6273 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6275 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
6276 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6277 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6278 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6280 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
6281 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6282 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6283 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6285 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
6286 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6287 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6288 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6289 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6290 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6291 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6293 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
6294 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
6295 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
6296 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
6297 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
6299 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
6300 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6301 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6302 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6304 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
6305 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
6306 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
6309 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
6310 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6311 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6312 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6313 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6314 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6316 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
6317 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
6318 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6320 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
6321 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
6322 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6323 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
6324 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
6325 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
6327 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
6328 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
6330 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6331 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6332 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6333 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6334 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6335 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
6336 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
6339 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
6340 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6341 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6343 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
6344 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
6347 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
6348 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
6349 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
6350 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
6352 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6353 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6354 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6355 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6356 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
6357 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
6358 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
6359 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
6361 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
6362 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
6363 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6364 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
6365 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
6366 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
6367 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6369 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
6370 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
6371 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
6372 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
6373 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
6374 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6376 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
6377 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6378 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6379 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6382 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
6383 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
6384 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
6385 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
6386 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6388 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
6389 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
6390 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6392 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6393 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6394 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6395 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6396 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6397 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6400 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
6401 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
6402 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
6405 o Minor bugfixes (python):
6406 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
6407 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
6408 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
6410 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6411 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
6412 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
6413 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
6414 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6416 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
6417 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
6418 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
6419 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
6421 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
6422 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
6423 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
6424 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
6425 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
6427 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6428 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
6429 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
6430 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6431 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
6432 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6433 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
6434 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6435 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
6436 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
6437 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
6438 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
6439 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6441 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
6442 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
6443 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
6444 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
6445 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6447 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6448 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
6449 port. Implements ticket 30007.
6450 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
6451 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
6452 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
6453 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
6454 string to directory connection with or without compression.
6455 Resolves issue 28816.
6456 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
6457 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
6458 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
6459 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
6460 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
6461 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
6462 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
6463 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
6464 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
6465 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
6466 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
6467 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
6468 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
6469 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
6470 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
6471 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
6472 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6473 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
6474 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6475 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
6476 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
6477 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
6478 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
6479 Closes ticket 29894.
6480 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
6481 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
6482 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
6483 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
6486 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
6487 Closes ticket 30630.
6488 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
6489 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
6493 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
6494 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
6495 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
6496 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
6500 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6501 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6502 Resolves issue 29702.
6504 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
6505 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
6506 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
6507 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
6508 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
6509 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
6510 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
6511 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
6512 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
6513 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
6514 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
6517 o Testing (chutney):
6518 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
6519 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
6520 Closes ticket 27251.
6522 o Testing (continuous integration):
6523 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and tail
6524 stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6525 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary.
6526 Closes ticket 30694.
6529 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
6530 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
6531 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
6532 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
6533 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
6534 long-term maintainability.
6536 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
6537 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
6538 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
6539 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
6541 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.7. For a complete list of changes
6542 since 0.4.0.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
6544 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
6545 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
6546 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
6547 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
6548 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
6549 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
6551 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
6552 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
6554 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
6555 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
6558 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
6559 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
6560 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
6561 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
6562 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
6563 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
6564 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
6565 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
6566 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
6569 o Major features (circuit padding):
6570 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
6571 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
6572 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
6573 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
6574 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
6575 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
6576 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
6577 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
6580 o Major features (refactoring):
6581 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
6582 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
6583 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
6584 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
6587 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
6588 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
6589 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
6590 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
6591 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
6592 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
6593 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
6594 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
6596 o Major bugfixes (networking):
6597 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
6598 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
6599 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
6600 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6602 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
6603 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
6604 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
6605 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
6606 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
6607 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6609 o Minor features (address selection):
6610 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
6611 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
6612 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
6613 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
6614 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
6615 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
6616 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6618 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
6619 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
6620 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
6621 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
6622 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
6624 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
6625 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
6626 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
6629 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
6630 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
6631 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
6632 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
6633 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
6636 o Minor features (compilation):
6637 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
6638 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
6639 Patches from "Mangix".
6641 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6642 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
6643 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
6645 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
6647 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
6648 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
6649 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
6651 o Minor features (controller):
6652 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
6653 Implements ticket 28843.
6655 o Minor features (developer tooling):
6656 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
6657 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
6658 release. Closes ticket 27761.
6659 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
6660 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
6661 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
6663 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
6664 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
6665 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
6667 o Minor features (diagnostic):
6668 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
6669 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
6672 o Minor features (directory authority):
6673 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
6674 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
6675 Closes ticket 26698.
6676 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
6677 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
6678 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
6679 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
6682 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
6683 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
6684 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
6685 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
6686 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
6687 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
6688 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
6690 o Minor features (dormant mode):
6691 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
6692 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
6693 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
6694 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
6695 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
6696 background. Closes ticket 29357.
6698 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
6699 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
6700 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
6702 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
6703 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
6704 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
6705 Closes ticket 28518.
6707 o Minor features (geoip):
6708 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6709 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
6711 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
6712 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
6713 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
6714 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
6716 o Minor features (IPv6):
6717 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
6718 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
6719 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
6720 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
6721 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
6722 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6723 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
6724 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
6725 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
6726 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6728 o Minor features (log messages):
6729 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
6730 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
6733 o Minor features (memory usage):
6734 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
6735 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
6736 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
6737 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
6738 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
6740 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
6741 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
6742 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
6743 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
6745 o Minor features (parsing):
6746 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
6747 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
6748 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
6750 o Minor features (performance):
6751 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
6752 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
6753 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
6754 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
6756 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
6757 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
6758 Closes ticket 28852.
6759 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
6760 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
6761 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
6762 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
6763 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
6764 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
6766 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
6767 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
6768 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
6769 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
6770 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
6772 o Minor features (process management):
6773 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
6774 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
6775 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
6776 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
6777 module. Closes ticket 28847.
6779 o Minor features (relay):
6780 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
6781 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
6782 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
6784 o Minor features (required protocols):
6785 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
6786 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
6787 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
6788 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
6789 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
6790 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
6791 297; closes ticket 27735.
6793 o Minor features (testing):
6794 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
6796 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
6797 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
6798 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
6799 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
6802 o Minor bugfixes (security):
6803 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
6804 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
6805 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
6806 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
6807 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
6808 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
6809 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
6810 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
6812 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
6813 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
6814 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
6815 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6817 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
6818 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
6819 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
6820 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
6821 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
6823 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
6824 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
6825 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6827 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
6828 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
6829 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
6830 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6832 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
6833 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
6834 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
6837 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
6838 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
6839 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
6840 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
6841 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
6844 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6845 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
6846 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6847 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
6848 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
6849 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6851 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
6852 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
6853 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
6855 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
6856 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
6857 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
6858 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6860 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
6861 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
6862 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
6863 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
6864 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
6866 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
6867 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
6868 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
6869 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
6871 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
6872 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
6873 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
6874 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
6875 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
6876 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
6877 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6879 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
6880 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
6881 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
6882 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
6885 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6886 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
6887 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
6888 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
6889 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6890 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
6891 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
6892 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
6893 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6894 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
6895 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6896 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
6897 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6898 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
6899 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
6900 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
6901 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6902 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
6903 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
6904 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
6905 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
6906 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
6908 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
6909 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
6910 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
6911 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6912 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
6913 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6915 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
6916 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
6917 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
6918 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
6919 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6921 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
6922 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
6923 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
6924 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6926 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
6927 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
6928 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
6929 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
6930 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
6931 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
6933 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6934 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
6935 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
6937 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
6938 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
6939 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
6941 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
6942 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
6943 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
6944 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
6946 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
6947 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
6948 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
6949 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6951 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
6952 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
6953 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
6954 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
6955 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6957 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
6958 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
6959 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6961 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
6962 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
6963 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
6964 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
6965 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
6968 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
6969 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
6970 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
6971 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
6972 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
6973 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
6974 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
6976 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
6977 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
6978 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
6981 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6982 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
6983 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
6984 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6985 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
6986 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
6988 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
6989 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
6990 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
6991 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
6992 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
6993 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
6994 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6995 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
6996 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6997 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
6998 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
7000 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
7001 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
7002 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
7003 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7005 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
7006 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
7007 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
7008 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
7009 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
7010 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
7011 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
7012 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
7014 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
7015 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
7016 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
7017 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
7018 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7020 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
7021 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
7022 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
7023 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
7024 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
7025 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7027 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7028 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
7029 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
7030 Resolves issue 28816.
7031 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
7032 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
7033 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
7034 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
7035 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
7037 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
7038 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
7039 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
7040 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
7041 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
7042 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
7043 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
7044 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
7048 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
7049 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
7050 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
7051 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
7052 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
7053 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
7054 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
7055 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
7056 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
7058 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
7061 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
7062 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
7063 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
7064 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
7065 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
7066 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
7067 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
7068 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
7071 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
7073 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
7074 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
7076 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
7077 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
7078 code from client and service into one function. Closes
7081 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
7082 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
7084 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
7085 Resolves ticket 28006.
7086 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
7087 Resolves ticket 28012.
7088 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
7089 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
7090 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
7091 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
7095 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
7096 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
7097 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
7100 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
7101 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
7102 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7104 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7105 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7106 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7107 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7108 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7109 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7110 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7111 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7113 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7114 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
7115 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
7116 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
7117 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7119 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7120 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
7121 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
7122 Patches from "Mangix".
7124 o Minor features (geoip):
7125 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7126 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7128 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7129 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
7132 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7133 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
7134 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
7135 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
7136 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
7137 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7139 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7140 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
7141 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
7142 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
7145 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7146 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7147 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7148 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7150 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7151 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
7152 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
7155 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7156 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
7157 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
7158 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7160 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7161 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
7162 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
7163 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
7165 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7166 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
7167 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
7168 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
7169 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
7170 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
7172 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7173 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
7174 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
7175 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
7176 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7178 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7179 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
7180 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
7181 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
7182 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7184 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7185 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
7186 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
7188 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
7189 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
7190 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
7192 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7193 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7194 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7195 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7197 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7198 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
7199 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7201 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7202 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
7203 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7204 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
7205 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
7208 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7209 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
7210 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
7211 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
7212 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7215 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
7216 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
7217 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
7218 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
7219 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7221 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7222 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7223 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7224 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7225 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7226 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7227 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7228 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7230 o Minor features (geoip):
7231 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7232 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7234 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7235 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7236 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7237 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7239 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7240 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7241 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7242 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7243 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7246 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
7247 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
7248 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
7249 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7251 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
7252 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
7253 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
7254 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
7256 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7257 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7258 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7259 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7260 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7261 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7262 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7263 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7265 o Minor features (geoip):
7266 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7267 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7269 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7270 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7271 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7272 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7274 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7275 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7276 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7277 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7278 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7281 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
7282 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
7283 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
7284 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
7285 to this version, or to a later series.
7287 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
7288 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
7289 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
7290 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
7291 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
7292 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
7294 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7295 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
7296 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
7297 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
7298 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
7301 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7302 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
7303 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
7304 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7306 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7307 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
7308 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
7309 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
7310 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
7311 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
7312 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
7313 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
7315 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7316 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
7317 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
7318 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
7320 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7321 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
7322 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
7323 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
7324 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
7326 o Minor features (geoip):
7327 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7328 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
7330 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7331 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
7332 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
7333 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
7334 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
7335 Closes ticket 28973.
7337 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7338 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
7339 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
7340 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
7342 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7343 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
7344 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
7347 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7348 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
7349 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
7351 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7352 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
7353 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
7354 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7356 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7357 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
7358 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
7359 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7361 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7362 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
7363 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
7364 were the same, the default setting (0) for
7365 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
7366 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
7369 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7370 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
7371 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
7374 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7375 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
7376 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
7377 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
7378 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7380 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7381 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
7382 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
7383 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
7384 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7386 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7387 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
7388 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
7389 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
7390 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
7391 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7393 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
7394 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
7395 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
7398 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7399 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
7400 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
7402 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7403 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
7404 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7406 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7407 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
7408 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
7411 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7412 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
7413 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
7414 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
7415 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
7416 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7417 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
7418 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7420 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7421 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
7422 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
7423 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7425 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7426 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
7427 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7428 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
7429 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
7430 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7431 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
7432 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
7433 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
7434 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
7436 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7437 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
7438 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
7439 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
7440 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
7441 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7443 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7444 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
7445 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
7446 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
7447 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7449 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7450 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
7451 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7454 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
7455 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
7456 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
7457 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
7460 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
7461 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
7462 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
7465 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7466 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
7467 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
7468 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
7469 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
7472 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7473 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
7474 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
7475 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
7476 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
7477 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
7478 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
7480 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7481 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
7482 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
7485 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7486 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
7487 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
7488 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
7489 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
7492 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7493 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
7494 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
7495 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
7496 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
7498 o Minor features (geoip):
7499 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7500 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
7502 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7503 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
7504 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
7505 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
7506 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
7507 Closes ticket 28973.
7509 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7510 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
7511 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
7512 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7514 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7515 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
7516 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
7517 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
7518 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
7521 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7522 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
7523 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
7524 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
7526 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
7527 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
7528 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7530 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7531 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
7532 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
7533 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
7535 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7536 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
7537 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
7538 were the same, the default setting (0) for
7539 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
7540 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
7543 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7544 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
7545 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
7547 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7548 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
7549 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
7550 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
7551 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7553 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7554 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
7555 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
7556 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
7557 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
7558 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7560 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7561 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
7562 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
7563 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
7565 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7566 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
7567 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7570 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
7571 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
7572 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
7573 affecting directory caches.
7575 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
7576 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
7577 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
7578 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
7579 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
7580 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
7581 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
7582 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
7584 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
7585 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
7586 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
7587 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
7588 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
7589 so it will recognize them.
7591 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
7592 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
7593 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
7594 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
7595 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
7596 with the latest stable release.)
7598 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.9. For a complete list of changes
7599 since 0.3.5.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
7601 o Major features (bootstrap):
7602 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
7603 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
7604 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
7605 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
7607 o Major features (new code layout):
7608 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
7609 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
7610 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
7611 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
7612 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
7613 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
7614 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
7616 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
7617 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
7618 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
7620 o Major features (onion services v3):
7621 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
7622 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
7623 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
7624 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
7625 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
7626 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
7627 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
7628 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
7629 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
7630 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
7631 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
7632 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
7633 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
7634 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
7635 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
7636 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
7637 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
7638 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
7640 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
7641 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
7642 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
7643 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
7644 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
7645 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
7647 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
7648 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
7649 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
7650 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
7651 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
7652 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
7653 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
7655 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
7656 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
7657 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
7658 (if present), and restart Tor.
7660 o Major features (relay, UI change):
7661 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
7662 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
7663 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
7664 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
7665 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7666 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
7667 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
7669 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
7670 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
7671 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7673 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
7674 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
7675 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
7676 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
7677 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
7678 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7680 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
7681 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
7682 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
7683 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
7686 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
7687 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
7688 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
7689 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
7690 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7692 o Major bugfixes (main loop, bootstrap):
7693 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
7694 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
7695 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
7696 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7698 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
7699 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
7700 introduction circuits on a NACK. This lets the client decide
7701 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
7702 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
7703 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
7705 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
7706 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
7707 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
7708 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
7709 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
7712 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
7713 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
7714 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
7715 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
7716 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
7717 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
7719 o Major bugfixes (relay):
7720 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
7721 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
7722 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
7723 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
7725 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
7726 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
7727 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
7728 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
7729 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
7730 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
7732 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
7733 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
7734 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
7735 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7737 o Minor features (admin tools):
7738 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
7739 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
7742 o Minor features (build):
7743 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
7744 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
7745 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
7746 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
7748 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
7749 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
7750 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
7751 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
7752 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
7754 o Minor features (code layout):
7755 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
7756 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
7757 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
7758 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
7761 o Minor features (compilation):
7762 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
7763 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
7764 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
7765 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
7766 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
7767 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
7770 o Minor features (config):
7771 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
7774 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7775 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
7777 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
7778 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
7779 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
7780 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
7781 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
7782 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
7783 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
7785 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
7786 Implements ticket 27252.
7787 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
7788 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
7789 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
7790 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
7791 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
7792 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
7793 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
7794 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
7795 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
7797 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
7798 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
7799 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
7801 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
7802 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
7804 o Minor features (controller):
7805 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
7806 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
7807 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
7808 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
7809 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
7810 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
7811 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
7812 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
7814 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
7815 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
7816 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
7817 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
7819 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
7820 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
7821 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
7822 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7824 o Minor features (development):
7825 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
7826 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
7828 o Minor features (directory authority):
7829 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
7830 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
7831 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
7832 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
7834 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
7835 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
7838 o Minor features (embedding API):
7839 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
7840 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
7841 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
7842 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
7843 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
7844 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
7847 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
7848 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
7849 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
7850 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
7851 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
7853 o Minor features (geoip):
7854 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7855 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
7857 o Minor features (memory management):
7858 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
7859 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
7862 o Minor features (memory usage):
7863 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
7864 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
7865 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
7867 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
7868 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
7869 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
7870 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
7871 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
7872 Closes ticket 28973.
7874 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
7875 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
7876 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
7878 o Minor features (performance):
7879 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
7880 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
7881 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
7882 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
7883 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
7884 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
7885 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
7886 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
7887 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
7888 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
7890 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
7891 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
7892 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
7893 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
7895 o Minor features (testing):
7896 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
7897 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
7899 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
7900 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
7901 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
7903 o Minor features (UI):
7904 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
7905 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
7906 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
7907 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
7908 Closes ticket 26703.
7910 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
7911 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
7912 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
7913 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
7914 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7916 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
7917 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
7918 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7919 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
7920 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7923 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
7924 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
7925 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
7926 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7928 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7929 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
7930 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
7931 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7932 - Use time_t for all values in
7933 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
7934 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
7935 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7937 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
7938 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
7939 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
7940 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
7941 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
7944 o Minor bugfixes (client, ReachableAddresses):
7945 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
7946 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
7947 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
7948 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
7949 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7951 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
7952 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
7953 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
7954 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7956 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
7957 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
7958 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
7961 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7962 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
7963 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
7964 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7966 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
7967 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
7968 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
7971 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
7972 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
7973 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
7974 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
7975 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
7977 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
7978 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
7979 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
7980 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
7981 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
7984 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
7985 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
7986 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7987 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
7988 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
7989 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
7990 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
7991 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
7992 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
7993 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
7994 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
7995 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
7996 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
7998 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
7999 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
8000 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8002 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8003 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
8004 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
8005 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
8006 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
8009 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8010 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
8011 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
8012 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
8013 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
8015 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
8016 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
8017 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8019 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
8020 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8021 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8022 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8023 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8024 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8027 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
8028 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
8029 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
8032 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
8033 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
8034 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
8035 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
8036 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8038 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8039 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
8040 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
8043 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8044 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
8045 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
8047 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
8048 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
8049 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
8050 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
8051 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
8052 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
8054 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
8055 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
8056 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
8057 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
8058 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8060 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8061 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8062 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8063 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
8064 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8066 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
8067 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8068 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8070 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
8071 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
8072 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
8073 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
8076 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8077 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8078 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8079 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8080 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8081 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8082 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
8083 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
8084 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
8086 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
8087 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
8089 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
8090 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
8091 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
8092 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
8093 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8094 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8095 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8096 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8097 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8098 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8099 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8101 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
8102 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
8103 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
8104 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8106 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
8107 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
8108 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
8109 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
8110 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
8112 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
8113 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
8114 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
8115 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
8117 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
8118 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8119 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8122 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
8123 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
8125 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8126 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8127 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8128 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8129 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8130 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8131 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8132 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8133 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8134 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8136 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
8137 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
8138 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
8139 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
8140 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8142 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
8143 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8144 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8145 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8147 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8148 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
8149 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
8150 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
8151 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
8152 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8153 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8154 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
8155 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
8156 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8158 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8159 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
8160 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
8161 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8162 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8163 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8164 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
8165 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
8166 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
8168 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
8169 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
8170 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8171 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
8172 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8173 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
8174 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
8175 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
8176 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8177 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8178 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
8179 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
8180 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8181 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
8182 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8184 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
8185 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
8186 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
8187 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
8188 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
8189 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
8190 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
8191 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
8193 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
8194 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
8195 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
8196 reported by Keifer Bly.
8198 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8199 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
8200 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
8202 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
8203 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
8204 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
8205 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
8206 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
8207 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
8208 Closes ticket 27814.
8209 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
8210 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
8211 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
8212 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
8213 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
8214 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
8215 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
8216 Closes ticket 27799.
8217 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
8218 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
8219 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
8220 directory within the top-level src directory.
8221 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
8222 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
8223 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
8224 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
8225 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
8226 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
8227 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
8228 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
8229 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
8230 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
8231 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
8232 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
8233 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
8234 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
8235 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
8236 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
8237 Closes ticket 21349.
8238 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
8239 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
8240 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
8241 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
8242 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
8243 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
8244 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
8246 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
8247 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
8248 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
8251 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
8252 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
8253 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
8254 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
8255 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
8256 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
8257 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
8258 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
8259 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
8262 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
8263 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
8264 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
8265 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
8266 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
8267 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
8268 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
8269 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
8270 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
8271 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
8272 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
8273 Closes ticket 26367.
8276 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
8277 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
8279 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
8280 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
8281 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
8282 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
8283 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
8284 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
8285 Closes ticket 19566.
8287 o Documentation (onion services):
8288 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
8289 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
8290 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
8291 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
8292 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
8293 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
8294 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
8295 process. Closes ticket 28275.
8298 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
8299 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
8300 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
8301 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
8302 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
8304 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8305 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
8306 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8308 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8309 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
8310 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
8311 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
8312 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8314 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8315 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
8316 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
8317 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
8318 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
8321 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8322 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8323 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8324 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8326 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8327 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
8328 Implements ticket 27252.
8329 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8330 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8331 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8332 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8333 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8334 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8335 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8337 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8338 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8339 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8340 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8342 o Minor features (geoip):
8343 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8344 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
8346 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8347 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
8348 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
8349 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
8350 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8352 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
8353 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
8354 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8355 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
8356 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8359 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8360 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
8361 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
8364 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8365 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
8366 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
8367 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
8368 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
8370 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8371 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8372 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8374 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8375 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
8376 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8378 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8379 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
8380 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
8381 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8383 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8384 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
8385 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8387 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8388 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
8389 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
8392 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8393 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8394 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8396 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8397 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8398 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8401 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8402 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8403 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8404 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8405 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8407 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8408 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
8409 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
8410 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
8411 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
8412 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8414 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8415 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8416 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8419 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8420 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8421 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8422 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8423 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8424 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8425 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8426 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8428 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8429 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8430 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8431 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8433 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8434 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
8435 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
8436 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
8437 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8439 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8440 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
8441 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8442 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
8443 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
8444 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8446 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8447 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
8448 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
8449 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
8450 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8451 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8453 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8454 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
8455 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
8456 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
8459 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8460 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
8461 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
8462 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
8463 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8466 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
8467 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
8469 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8470 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8471 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8472 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8474 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8475 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8477 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8478 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8479 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8480 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8482 o Minor features (geoip):
8483 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8484 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8486 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8487 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8488 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8489 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8491 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8492 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8493 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8494 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8495 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8496 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8497 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8498 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8501 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8502 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8503 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8504 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8506 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8507 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8508 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8509 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8511 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8512 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8513 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8514 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8516 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8517 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8518 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8519 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8520 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8522 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8523 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8524 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8527 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8528 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8529 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8530 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8531 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8533 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8534 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8535 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8538 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8539 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
8540 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
8541 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8543 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8544 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8545 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8547 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8548 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8549 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8552 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8553 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8554 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8555 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8556 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8558 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8559 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8560 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8563 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
8564 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8566 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8567 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8568 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8569 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8571 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8572 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8574 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8575 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8576 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8577 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8579 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8580 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8583 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8584 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
8585 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
8586 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
8588 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8589 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
8590 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
8591 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
8593 o Minor features (geoip):
8594 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8595 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8597 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8598 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8599 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8600 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8601 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
8602 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
8603 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
8605 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8606 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8607 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8608 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8609 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8610 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8611 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8612 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8615 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8616 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8617 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8618 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8620 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8621 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8622 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8623 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8625 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8626 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8627 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8628 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8629 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8631 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8632 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8633 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8634 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8635 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8637 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8638 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8639 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8642 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8643 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8644 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8645 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8646 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8648 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8649 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
8650 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
8653 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8654 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
8655 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
8658 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8659 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8660 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8663 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8664 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
8666 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
8667 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
8668 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
8669 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8671 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8672 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
8673 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
8674 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8676 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8677 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8678 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8680 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8681 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
8682 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
8683 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
8684 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8685 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8686 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8689 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
8690 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
8691 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
8692 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
8693 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8695 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8696 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8697 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8698 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8699 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8701 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8702 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8703 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8706 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
8707 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8709 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8710 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
8711 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
8712 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
8714 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8715 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8716 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8717 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8719 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8720 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
8721 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8723 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8724 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8725 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8726 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8728 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8729 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8732 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8733 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
8734 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
8735 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
8737 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8738 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
8739 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
8740 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
8742 o Minor features (geoip):
8743 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8744 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8746 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8747 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8748 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8749 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8750 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
8751 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
8752 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
8754 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8755 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8756 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8757 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8758 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8759 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8760 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8761 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8764 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8765 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8766 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8767 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8769 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8770 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8771 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8772 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8774 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8775 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8776 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8777 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8778 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8780 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8781 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8782 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8783 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8784 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8786 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8787 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8788 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8791 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8792 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
8793 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
8794 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8796 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8797 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8798 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8799 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8800 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8802 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8803 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
8804 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
8807 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8808 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
8809 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
8812 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8813 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8814 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8817 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8818 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
8819 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
8820 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8822 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8823 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
8824 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
8827 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8828 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
8830 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
8831 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
8832 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
8833 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
8834 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8835 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
8836 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
8838 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
8839 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8840 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
8841 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
8842 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
8844 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8845 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
8846 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
8847 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8849 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8850 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8851 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8853 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8854 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
8855 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
8856 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
8857 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8858 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8859 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8862 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8863 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8864 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8865 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8866 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8868 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8869 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
8870 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
8871 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
8872 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8874 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8875 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8876 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8879 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
8880 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
8881 compilation and portability fixes.
8883 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
8884 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
8885 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
8886 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
8887 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
8888 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
8889 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
8890 our anti-denial-of-service code.
8892 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.9. For a list of only the changes
8893 since 0.3.4.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
8895 o New system requirements:
8896 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
8897 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
8898 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
8899 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
8901 o Major features (directory authority, modularization):
8902 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
8903 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
8904 To disable the module, the configure option
8905 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
8906 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
8908 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
8909 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
8910 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
8911 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
8912 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
8913 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
8914 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
8915 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
8916 events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
8917 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
8918 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
8920 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
8921 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
8922 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
8923 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
8924 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
8925 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
8926 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
8927 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
8928 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
8929 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
8930 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
8931 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
8932 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
8933 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
8934 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
8935 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
8936 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
8937 Tor's uptime (26009).
8939 o Minor features (accounting):
8940 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
8941 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
8942 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
8943 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
8945 o Minor features (bug workaround):
8946 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
8947 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
8948 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
8950 o Minor features (code quality):
8951 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
8952 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
8953 Closes ticket 25024.
8955 o Minor features (compatibility):
8956 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8957 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8958 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8959 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
8960 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
8961 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
8963 o Minor features (compilation):
8964 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8965 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8966 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8967 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
8968 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
8969 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
8970 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8971 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8974 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
8975 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
8976 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
8977 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
8978 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
8979 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
8981 o Minor features (configuration):
8982 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
8983 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
8984 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
8985 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
8986 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
8988 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8989 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
8990 Implements ticket 27449.
8991 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
8992 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
8994 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
8995 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8997 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8998 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8999 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
9000 Implements ticket 27275.
9001 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9002 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9003 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
9004 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
9005 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
9007 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
9008 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9011 o Minor features (control port):
9012 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
9013 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
9014 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
9015 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9016 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
9017 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
9018 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
9019 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
9020 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
9021 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
9023 o Minor features (controller):
9024 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9025 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9026 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9028 o Minor features (directory authorities):
9029 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
9030 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
9031 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
9032 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9033 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9034 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9036 o Minor features (directory authority):
9037 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
9038 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
9039 Closes ticket 23909.
9041 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
9042 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
9043 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
9044 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
9046 o Minor features (entry guards):
9047 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
9048 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
9050 o Minor features (geoip):
9051 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9052 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9054 o Minor features (performance):
9055 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
9056 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
9057 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
9058 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
9060 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
9061 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
9063 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
9064 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
9066 o Minor features (testing):
9067 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
9068 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
9070 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
9071 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
9072 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
9073 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
9074 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
9075 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
9077 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
9078 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
9079 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
9080 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
9081 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
9083 o Minor features (unit tests):
9084 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
9085 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
9086 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
9089 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
9090 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
9091 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
9092 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
9093 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
9094 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
9096 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
9097 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
9098 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
9099 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
9101 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
9102 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
9103 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9104 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
9105 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
9107 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9108 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9109 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9110 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9111 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9112 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9113 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9114 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9116 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9117 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9118 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9119 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9120 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
9121 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
9122 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9123 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
9124 Closes ticket 26245.
9125 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
9126 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
9127 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9129 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
9130 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9131 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9132 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9134 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
9135 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9136 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9137 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9138 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9140 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
9141 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
9142 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
9143 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
9144 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9145 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
9146 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
9147 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
9148 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
9149 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
9150 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
9151 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9153 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
9154 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
9155 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
9158 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
9159 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9160 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9163 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
9164 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
9165 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9166 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
9167 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
9168 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
9171 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
9172 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
9173 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
9174 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
9175 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
9176 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
9177 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
9179 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
9180 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
9181 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
9182 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9184 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9185 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9186 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9187 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9188 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9190 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9191 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9192 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9195 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9196 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9197 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9199 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9200 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9202 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
9203 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
9204 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
9205 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
9206 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9208 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9209 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
9210 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
9212 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
9213 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
9214 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9215 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
9216 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
9219 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
9220 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
9221 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
9222 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9224 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
9225 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
9226 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
9227 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
9228 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
9229 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
9230 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
9232 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
9233 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9235 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
9236 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
9237 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9238 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
9239 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
9241 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9242 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9243 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
9244 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
9245 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9247 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
9248 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
9249 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
9250 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9252 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
9253 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
9254 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
9255 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
9258 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9259 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9260 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9261 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
9262 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
9263 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
9264 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
9265 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9266 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
9267 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
9269 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
9270 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
9271 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9272 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
9273 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
9274 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
9275 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
9277 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
9278 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
9279 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
9280 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
9281 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
9283 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
9284 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
9285 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
9288 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
9289 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
9290 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
9291 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
9292 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9294 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
9295 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9296 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9297 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9298 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9299 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9300 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9303 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
9304 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9305 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9306 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9307 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9309 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
9310 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
9311 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
9312 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
9313 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
9315 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
9316 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
9317 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
9318 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
9319 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
9320 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9322 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
9323 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9324 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9326 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9327 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
9328 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
9329 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
9330 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
9331 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
9332 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
9333 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
9335 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
9336 confusing we renamed some functions and
9337 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
9338 router_should_check_reachability() and
9339 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
9340 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
9341 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
9342 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
9343 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
9345 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
9346 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
9348 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
9349 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
9350 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9351 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
9352 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
9353 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
9354 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
9355 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
9356 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
9357 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
9358 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
9359 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
9360 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
9361 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
9362 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
9363 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9364 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
9365 Closes ticket 25766.
9366 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
9367 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
9368 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
9369 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
9370 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
9371 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
9372 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
9373 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
9374 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
9375 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
9376 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9377 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
9378 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
9379 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
9381 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
9382 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
9383 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
9384 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
9385 before. Closes ticket 26016.
9386 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
9387 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
9388 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
9389 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
9391 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
9392 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
9393 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
9394 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9396 o Deprecated features:
9397 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
9398 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
9399 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
9400 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
9401 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
9402 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
9405 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
9406 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
9407 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
9408 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
9409 24378 and proposal 290.
9410 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
9411 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
9412 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
9413 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
9414 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
9415 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
9416 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
9417 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
9418 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
9419 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
9420 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
9421 their local router. Closes 25409.
9422 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
9423 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
9424 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
9425 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
9426 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
9427 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
9428 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
9429 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
9430 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
9431 Closes ticket 25268.
9434 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
9435 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
9436 bridge relays should upgrade.
9438 o Directory authority changes:
9439 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9440 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
9441 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
9444 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
9445 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
9446 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
9449 o Directory authority changes:
9450 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9451 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
9452 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
9454 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
9455 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9456 Closes ticket 26343.
9458 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9459 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
9460 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
9461 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
9462 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9464 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9465 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
9466 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
9468 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9469 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
9470 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
9471 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
9473 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9474 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
9475 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
9477 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9478 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
9479 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
9480 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
9481 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
9482 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
9484 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9485 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
9486 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
9487 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
9489 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9490 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9491 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9494 o Minor features (geoip):
9495 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9496 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
9498 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9499 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
9500 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
9501 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
9502 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9504 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9505 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
9506 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9508 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9509 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
9510 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
9511 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
9512 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9513 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
9514 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
9515 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
9518 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9519 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
9520 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
9521 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
9522 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
9523 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9525 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9526 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
9527 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
9528 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
9529 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9531 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9532 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9533 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9534 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9535 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9537 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9538 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
9539 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
9542 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9543 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
9544 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9546 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9547 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
9548 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
9549 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
9551 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9552 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
9553 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9554 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
9555 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
9556 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
9557 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9559 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9560 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
9561 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
9562 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
9565 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9566 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
9567 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9569 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9570 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
9571 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9573 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9574 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
9575 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
9576 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
9579 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9580 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
9581 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
9582 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
9584 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9585 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
9586 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
9588 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9589 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
9590 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
9593 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
9594 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
9595 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
9598 o Directory authority changes:
9599 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9600 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
9601 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
9603 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
9604 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9605 Closes ticket 26343.
9607 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9608 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
9609 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
9610 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
9611 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9613 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9614 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
9615 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
9616 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
9618 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9619 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
9620 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
9621 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
9622 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
9623 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
9625 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9626 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9627 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9630 o Minor features (geoip):
9631 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9632 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
9634 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9635 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
9636 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
9637 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
9638 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9640 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9641 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
9642 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9644 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9645 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
9646 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
9647 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
9650 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9651 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
9652 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
9653 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
9654 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
9655 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9657 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9658 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9659 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9660 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9661 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9663 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9664 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
9665 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
9668 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9669 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
9670 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9672 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9673 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
9674 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
9675 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
9677 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9678 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
9679 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
9681 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9682 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
9683 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
9686 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
9687 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
9688 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
9690 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9691 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
9692 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
9693 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9695 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9696 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
9697 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
9700 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9701 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9702 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9705 o Minor features (geoip):
9706 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9707 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
9709 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9710 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
9711 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
9712 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
9714 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9715 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
9716 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
9717 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
9718 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
9721 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9722 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9723 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9724 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9725 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9727 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9728 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
9729 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
9730 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
9732 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9733 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
9734 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
9736 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9737 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
9738 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
9739 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
9742 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9743 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
9744 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
9745 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9747 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9748 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
9749 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
9750 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
9751 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9752 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
9753 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
9754 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
9758 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
9759 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
9760 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
9762 o Directory authority changes:
9763 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9764 Closes ticket 26343.
9766 o Minor features (geoip):
9767 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9768 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
9770 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9771 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
9772 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
9773 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
9774 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
9775 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9777 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9778 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
9779 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9781 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9782 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
9783 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
9784 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
9785 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9787 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9788 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
9789 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9791 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9792 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
9793 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
9794 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
9795 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
9796 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
9799 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
9800 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
9801 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9803 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
9804 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
9805 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
9806 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
9807 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
9808 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
9810 Below are the changes since 0.3.2.10. For a list of only the changes
9811 since 0.3.3.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
9813 o New system requirements:
9814 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
9815 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
9817 o Major features (embedding):
9818 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
9819 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
9820 Closes ticket 23684.
9821 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
9822 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
9823 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
9824 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
9825 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
9826 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
9828 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
9829 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
9830 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
9831 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements
9833 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
9834 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts,
9835 they are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor
9836 clients on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor
9837 clients that have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements
9839 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
9840 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
9843 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
9844 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
9845 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
9846 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
9847 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
9848 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
9849 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
9851 o Major features (onion services):
9852 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
9853 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
9854 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
9855 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
9856 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
9858 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
9859 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
9860 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
9861 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
9862 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
9863 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9865 o Major features (relay):
9866 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
9867 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
9868 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
9869 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
9870 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
9872 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
9873 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
9874 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
9875 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
9876 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
9877 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
9878 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
9879 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
9881 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9882 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
9883 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
9884 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
9885 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9887 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
9888 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
9889 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
9890 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
9891 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
9893 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9894 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
9895 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
9896 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9898 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
9899 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
9900 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
9901 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
9902 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
9903 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
9904 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
9905 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9907 o Major bugfixes (networking):
9908 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
9909 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
9910 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
9912 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9913 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
9914 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
9916 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
9917 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
9918 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
9919 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
9920 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
9921 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
9922 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
9924 o Major bugfixes (relay):
9925 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
9926 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
9927 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
9928 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9930 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9931 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
9932 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
9935 o Minor features (cleanup):
9936 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
9937 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
9939 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9940 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
9941 Closes ticket 26006.
9943 o Minor features (config options):
9944 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
9945 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
9946 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
9949 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9950 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
9951 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
9953 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9954 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
9955 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
9956 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
9957 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
9958 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
9960 o Minor features (defensive programming):
9961 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
9962 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
9963 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
9964 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
9965 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
9966 once. Part of ticket 24337.
9967 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
9968 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
9969 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
9971 o Minor features (directory authority):
9972 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
9973 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
9975 o Minor features (embedding):
9976 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
9977 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
9978 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
9979 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
9980 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
9981 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
9982 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
9983 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
9984 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
9985 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside a
9986 separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
9987 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
9988 Closes ticket 23848.
9989 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
9990 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
9991 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
9993 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
9994 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
9995 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
9996 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
9997 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
9998 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
9999 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
10000 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
10003 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
10004 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
10005 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
10006 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
10007 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
10008 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
10009 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
10011 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
10012 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
10013 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
10014 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
10015 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
10016 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
10017 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
10018 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
10019 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
10020 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
10021 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
10022 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
10024 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
10025 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
10026 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
10028 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
10029 Implements ticket 24791.
10031 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
10032 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
10033 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
10034 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
10035 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
10036 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
10038 o Minor features (geoip):
10039 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
10040 database. Closes ticket 26104.
10042 o Minor features (heartbeat):
10043 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
10044 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
10047 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
10048 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
10049 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
10050 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
10051 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
10053 o Minor features (IPv6):
10054 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
10055 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
10056 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
10057 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
10058 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. Implements
10061 o Minor features (log messages):
10062 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
10063 information about memory usage from the different compression
10064 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
10065 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
10066 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
10067 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
10068 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
10070 o Minor features (logging):
10071 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
10072 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
10073 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
10076 o Minor features (performance):
10077 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
10078 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
10079 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
10080 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
10082 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
10083 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
10084 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
10085 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
10086 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
10087 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
10088 Implements ticket 24374.
10090 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
10091 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
10092 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
10093 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
10094 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
10096 o Minor features (performance, windows):
10097 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
10098 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
10099 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
10102 o Minor features (sandbox):
10103 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10104 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10105 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10107 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
10108 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
10109 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
10110 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
10111 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
10113 o Minor features (testing):
10114 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
10117 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
10118 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
10119 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
10120 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
10121 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
10122 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
10123 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
10124 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
10125 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
10127 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
10128 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
10129 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
10130 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
10131 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
10132 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
10133 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
10134 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
10135 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
10138 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
10139 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10140 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10141 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10143 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
10144 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
10145 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
10147 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
10148 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
10149 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
10150 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
10151 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10153 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10154 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10155 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10158 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10159 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
10160 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
10161 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
10163 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10164 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
10165 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
10166 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10167 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
10168 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
10169 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10171 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
10172 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
10173 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
10174 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
10176 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10177 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10178 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10179 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10180 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10182 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
10183 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
10184 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
10185 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
10188 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
10189 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
10190 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
10191 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
10192 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
10194 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10195 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
10196 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
10197 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
10198 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
10201 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
10202 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
10203 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
10204 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
10205 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
10207 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
10208 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
10209 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
10212 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
10213 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
10214 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
10216 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
10217 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10218 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
10219 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
10220 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
10222 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
10223 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
10224 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
10225 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10227 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
10228 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
10229 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10230 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
10231 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
10232 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10234 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10235 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
10236 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
10237 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
10239 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10240 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10241 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10243 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10244 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
10245 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
10246 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
10248 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
10249 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
10250 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old
10251 option still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix
10254 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
10255 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
10256 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
10257 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
10258 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10259 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
10262 o Minor bugfixes (network IPv6 test):
10263 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
10264 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
10265 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10267 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
10268 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
10269 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
10271 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
10272 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service descriptor
10273 rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's valid-after
10274 time. Instead, log a warning message with extra information, so we
10275 can better hunt down the cause of this assertion. Fixes bug 25306;
10276 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10278 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10279 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
10280 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10281 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
10282 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
10283 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
10284 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10286 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10287 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
10288 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
10289 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
10291 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
10292 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
10293 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
10294 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
10295 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
10297 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
10298 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
10299 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
10300 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
10301 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
10302 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10304 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
10305 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
10306 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
10307 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
10308 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
10309 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10310 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
10311 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
10312 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
10313 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
10314 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
10315 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10317 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10318 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
10319 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10321 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
10322 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
10323 would call the Rust implementation of
10324 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
10325 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
10326 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
10327 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
10328 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10330 o Minor bugfixes (spelling):
10331 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
10332 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
10333 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
10335 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10336 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
10337 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
10338 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
10340 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
10341 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10343 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
10344 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
10345 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
10346 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
10347 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
10348 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10350 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10351 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10352 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10353 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
10354 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
10356 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
10358 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
10359 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
10360 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
10362 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
10364 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
10365 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
10366 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
10367 "aruna1234" and teor.
10368 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
10369 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
10370 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
10371 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
10373 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
10374 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
10375 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
10376 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
10377 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
10378 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
10379 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
10380 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
10381 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
10382 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
10384 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
10385 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
10388 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
10390 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
10391 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
10392 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
10393 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
10395 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
10396 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
10397 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
10398 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
10400 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
10401 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
10402 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
10403 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
10404 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
10406 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
10407 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
10408 adding very little except for unit test.
10410 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
10411 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
10412 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
10413 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
10415 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
10416 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
10417 const. Implements ticket 24489.
10419 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10420 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
10421 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
10423 o Documentation (man page):
10424 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
10425 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
10428 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
10429 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
10430 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
10434 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
10435 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
10438 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
10439 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
10441 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
10442 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
10444 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
10447 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
10448 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
10449 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
10451 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
10452 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
10453 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
10454 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
10457 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10458 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10459 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10460 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10463 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10464 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10465 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10466 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10467 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10468 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10469 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
10470 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
10471 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
10472 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
10473 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
10474 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
10475 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
10477 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10478 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
10479 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
10481 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10482 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
10483 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
10484 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
10485 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
10486 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
10487 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10489 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10490 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
10491 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10493 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10494 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
10495 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
10496 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
10497 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
10498 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
10499 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10501 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10502 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
10503 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
10504 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
10506 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10507 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
10508 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
10509 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
10511 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10512 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10513 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10514 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10515 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10516 Closes ticket 24978.
10518 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10519 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
10520 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
10521 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
10522 information. Closes ticket 24801.
10523 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
10524 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
10525 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
10526 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
10528 o Minor features (geoip):
10529 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10532 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10533 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10534 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10535 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10536 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10538 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10539 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10540 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10541 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10542 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10544 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10545 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
10546 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
10547 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
10548 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
10551 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10552 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
10553 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
10554 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
10555 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
10556 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
10557 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
10558 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
10559 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
10560 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
10561 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
10564 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
10565 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
10566 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10568 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10569 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
10570 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
10573 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10574 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10575 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10576 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10577 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10578 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10579 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10581 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10582 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
10583 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10584 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
10585 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
10586 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
10587 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
10588 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
10589 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
10592 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10593 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
10594 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
10595 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
10596 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
10597 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10599 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10600 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
10601 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
10602 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10604 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
10605 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
10606 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
10607 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
10608 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
10611 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10612 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
10613 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
10614 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
10615 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
10616 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10618 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10619 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
10620 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
10621 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
10622 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
10623 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
10624 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10625 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
10626 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
10627 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10628 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
10629 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10631 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10632 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
10633 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
10634 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10636 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10637 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
10638 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
10639 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10641 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10642 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
10643 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
10644 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
10647 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
10648 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
10649 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
10650 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
10651 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
10653 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10654 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10656 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10657 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10659 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10660 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
10661 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
10664 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
10665 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10666 later Tor releases.
10668 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
10669 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
10671 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
10672 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
10674 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
10677 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
10678 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
10679 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
10681 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10682 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10683 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10684 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10687 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
10688 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10689 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10690 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10691 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10692 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10693 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
10694 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
10695 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
10696 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
10697 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
10698 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
10699 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
10701 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
10702 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
10703 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
10704 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
10705 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
10706 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
10707 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
10708 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
10709 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
10711 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
10712 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
10713 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
10714 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
10715 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
10716 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
10717 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10719 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
10720 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
10721 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
10722 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
10724 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
10725 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10726 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10727 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10728 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10729 Closes ticket 24978.
10731 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
10732 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
10733 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
10734 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
10736 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
10737 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
10738 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
10739 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
10740 information. Closes ticket 24801.
10741 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
10742 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
10743 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
10744 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
10746 o Minor features (geoip):
10747 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10750 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10751 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
10752 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
10754 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
10755 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10756 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10757 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10758 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10760 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
10761 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10762 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10763 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10764 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10766 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
10767 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
10768 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
10769 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
10770 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
10773 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10774 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
10775 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10777 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10778 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
10779 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
10782 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10783 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10784 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10785 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10786 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10787 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10788 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10790 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
10791 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
10792 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
10793 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
10794 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
10797 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
10798 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
10799 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
10800 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
10801 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
10802 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10804 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
10805 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
10806 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
10807 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10809 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
10810 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
10811 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
10812 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
10813 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
10814 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
10815 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10816 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
10817 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
10818 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10819 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
10820 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10822 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
10823 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
10824 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
10825 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
10828 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10829 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
10830 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
10831 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
10832 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
10834 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10835 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10837 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10838 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10841 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
10842 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
10843 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
10846 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
10847 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
10849 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
10850 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
10851 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
10852 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
10853 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
10854 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
10857 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
10858 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
10860 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
10863 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
10864 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
10865 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
10866 the DoS mitigations.)
10868 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10869 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10870 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10871 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10874 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10875 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
10876 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
10877 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10879 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10880 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10881 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10882 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10883 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10884 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10885 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
10886 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
10887 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
10888 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
10889 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
10890 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
10891 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
10893 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10894 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
10895 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
10896 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
10897 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
10898 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
10899 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10900 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
10901 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
10902 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
10903 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10905 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10906 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
10907 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10909 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10910 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
10911 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
10912 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
10913 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
10914 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
10915 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10917 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10918 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
10919 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
10920 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10922 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10923 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
10924 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
10925 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
10927 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10928 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10929 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10930 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10931 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10932 Closes ticket 24978.
10934 o Minor features (geoip):
10935 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10938 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10939 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
10940 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
10943 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10944 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10945 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10946 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10947 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10949 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10950 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10951 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10952 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10953 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10954 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10955 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10957 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10958 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10959 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10960 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10961 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10963 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10964 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
10965 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
10966 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10968 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10969 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
10970 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
10971 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
10972 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10974 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10975 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
10976 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
10977 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10979 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10980 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
10981 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
10982 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10984 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10985 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
10986 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
10987 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10989 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10990 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10992 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10993 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10995 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10996 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
10997 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
10999 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11000 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
11001 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
11002 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
11003 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11005 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11006 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
11007 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
11009 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
11010 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
11011 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
11015 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
11016 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
11018 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
11019 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
11020 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
11021 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
11022 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
11023 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
11025 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
11026 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
11027 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
11028 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
11029 with the 0.2.9 series.
11031 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.7. For a list of all
11032 changes since 0.3.2.8-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
11034 o Directory authority changes:
11035 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11036 Closes ticket 23910.
11037 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11038 Closes ticket 23592.
11039 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
11040 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
11041 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
11042 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
11043 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11046 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
11047 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
11048 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
11049 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
11050 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
11051 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
11054 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
11055 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
11057 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
11060 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
11063 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
11065 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
11067 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
11069 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
11070 they are 56 characters long, as in
11071 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
11073 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
11074 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
11075 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
11076 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
11077 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
11080 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
11081 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
11082 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
11083 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
11084 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
11085 options. For more information, see our blog post at
11086 "https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest". Enjoy!
11088 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
11089 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
11090 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
11091 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
11092 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
11093 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
11094 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
11095 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
11096 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
11097 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
11098 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
11099 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
11101 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
11102 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
11103 more information, see the design paper at
11104 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
11105 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
11106 Closes ticket 12541. For more information, see our blog post at
11107 "https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell".
11109 o Major bugfixes (security, general):
11110 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11111 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11112 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11113 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11114 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11115 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11116 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11118 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority):
11119 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11120 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11121 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11124 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
11125 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11126 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11127 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11128 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11129 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11130 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11131 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11132 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11133 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11134 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11135 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11138 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
11139 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11140 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11141 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11142 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11143 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11144 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
11145 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
11146 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11148 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
11149 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11150 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11151 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11152 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11153 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11154 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11155 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11156 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11157 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
11158 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
11161 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
11162 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
11163 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
11164 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
11165 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
11166 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
11167 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
11169 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
11170 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11171 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11172 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11173 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11174 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11177 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
11178 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
11179 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
11180 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
11182 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
11183 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
11184 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
11185 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
11187 o Minor features (bridge):
11188 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
11189 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
11190 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
11191 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
11192 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
11193 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
11194 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
11195 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
11196 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
11197 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
11198 related to ticket 23080.
11200 o Minor features (bug detection):
11201 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
11202 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
11203 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
11205 o Minor features (build, compilation):
11206 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
11207 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
11208 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
11209 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
11210 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
11211 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
11212 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
11213 Closes ticket 23643.
11215 o Minor features (client):
11216 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
11217 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
11218 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
11219 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
11220 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
11221 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
11222 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
11223 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
11224 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
11225 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
11226 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
11227 Resolves ticket 23670.
11229 o Minor features (command line):
11230 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
11231 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
11232 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
11234 o Minor features (control port):
11235 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
11236 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
11237 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
11239 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
11240 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
11242 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
11243 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
11244 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
11245 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
11246 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
11247 Closes ticket 23237.
11248 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
11249 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
11251 o Minor features (development support):
11252 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
11253 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
11254 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
11255 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
11256 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
11257 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
11259 o Minor features (directory authority):
11260 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
11261 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
11262 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
11263 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
11265 o Minor features (ed25519):
11266 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
11267 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
11268 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
11270 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
11271 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
11272 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
11274 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
11275 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11276 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11277 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11278 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11279 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11280 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11281 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11282 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11284 o Minor features (geoip):
11285 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11288 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
11289 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
11290 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
11291 another program, regardless of the settings of
11292 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
11293 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
11294 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
11296 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11297 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11298 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11300 o Minor features (logging):
11301 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
11303 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
11304 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
11306 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
11307 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
11308 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
11309 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
11310 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
11311 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
11312 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
11313 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
11314 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
11315 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
11317 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
11318 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
11320 o Minor features (onion service, circuit, logging):
11321 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
11322 the circuit identifier(s).
11323 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
11324 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
11326 o Minor features (portability):
11327 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
11328 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
11330 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
11331 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
11332 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
11333 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
11335 o Minor features (relay):
11336 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
11337 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
11338 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
11339 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
11340 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
11341 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
11342 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
11343 results. Closes ticket 22731.
11345 o Minor features (relay statistics):
11346 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11347 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11348 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11350 o Minor features (reverted deprecations):
11351 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
11352 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
11353 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
11354 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
11356 o Minor features (robustness):
11357 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
11358 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
11360 o Minor features (startup, safety):
11361 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
11362 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
11365 o Minor features (static analysis):
11366 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
11367 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
11370 o Minor features (testing):
11371 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
11372 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
11373 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
11374 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
11376 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
11377 onion service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
11378 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
11379 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 onion
11380 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
11382 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
11383 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11384 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11385 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11386 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11389 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
11390 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
11391 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
11394 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
11395 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
11396 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
11397 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
11398 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11399 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
11400 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
11401 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
11402 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11403 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
11404 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
11405 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
11406 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11408 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
11409 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
11410 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
11411 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11413 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
11414 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
11415 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
11416 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
11417 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
11418 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
11419 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
11420 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
11421 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11422 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11423 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11424 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
11425 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
11426 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
11427 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
11428 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11429 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11431 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
11432 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
11433 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
11434 Coverity as CID 1415728.
11436 o Minor bugfixes (client):
11437 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
11438 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
11439 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11441 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
11442 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
11443 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
11444 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
11445 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
11446 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
11447 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
11448 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11450 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
11451 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
11452 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
11453 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
11454 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11455 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
11456 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
11457 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
11458 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
11459 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
11460 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
11461 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
11462 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
11463 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
11466 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
11467 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
11468 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
11471 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
11472 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
11473 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
11474 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
11476 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11477 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11478 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11481 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
11482 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
11483 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
11484 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11486 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
11487 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
11488 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11489 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
11490 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
11491 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
11492 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
11493 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
11494 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
11497 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
11498 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
11499 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
11500 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
11501 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11503 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
11504 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
11505 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
11506 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
11507 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
11508 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
11510 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
11511 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
11514 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11515 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
11516 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11517 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
11518 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
11519 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11521 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
11522 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
11523 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
11524 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11526 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
11527 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
11528 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
11529 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
11530 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
11531 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11533 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
11534 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
11535 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
11536 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
11537 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
11538 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
11539 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
11542 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
11543 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
11544 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
11545 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11547 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11548 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
11549 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
11550 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
11551 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11552 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
11553 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
11554 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
11555 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
11556 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
11558 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
11559 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
11560 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
11562 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
11563 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
11564 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
11566 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
11567 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11568 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
11569 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
11570 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
11571 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
11573 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
11574 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11575 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11576 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11577 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11578 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11580 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
11581 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
11582 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11584 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
11585 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11586 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11587 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11588 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11591 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
11592 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11593 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11594 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11595 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11596 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11598 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11599 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
11600 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
11601 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
11602 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11603 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
11604 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
11606 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
11607 only fetch the service descriptor once.
11608 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
11609 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
11610 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11611 - When reloading configured onion services, copy all information
11612 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
11613 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
11614 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
11616 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
11617 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11618 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11619 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11620 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11621 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11622 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11623 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11624 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11625 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11626 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11627 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11629 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11630 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
11631 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11632 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11633 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11634 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11637 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11638 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
11639 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
11640 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
11641 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11642 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11643 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11644 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11645 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11646 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11647 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11648 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11650 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11651 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
11652 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11653 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
11654 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
11655 Closes ticket 24109.
11656 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
11657 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11658 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
11659 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
11661 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
11662 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
11664 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
11665 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
11666 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
11667 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
11668 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
11669 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
11670 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
11671 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11672 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
11673 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
11674 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11676 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
11677 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
11678 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
11679 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11681 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11682 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
11683 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
11685 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
11686 function from the general code to handle channel state
11687 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
11688 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
11689 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
11690 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
11691 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
11692 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
11693 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
11694 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
11696 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
11697 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
11699 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
11700 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
11701 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
11702 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
11703 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
11704 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
11705 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
11706 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
11707 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
11708 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
11709 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
11710 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
11712 o Deprecated features:
11713 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
11714 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
11715 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
11716 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
11717 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
11718 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
11722 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
11723 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
11724 section. Closes ticket 24254.
11725 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
11726 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
11727 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
11728 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
11729 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
11730 Closes ticket 18736.
11731 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
11732 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
11733 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
11734 Closes ticket 15645.
11735 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
11736 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
11737 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
11738 file. Closes ticket 21148.
11740 o Removed features:
11741 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
11742 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
11743 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
11744 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
11745 Closes ticket 21031.
11746 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
11747 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
11750 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
11751 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
11752 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
11753 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
11755 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11756 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11757 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11758 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11759 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11760 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11761 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11762 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11763 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11764 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11765 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11767 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11768 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11769 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11770 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11771 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11772 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11773 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11776 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11777 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11778 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11779 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11780 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11782 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11783 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11784 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11785 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11786 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11787 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11788 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
11789 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
11790 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11792 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11793 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11794 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11795 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11796 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11797 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11800 o Minor features (bridge):
11801 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11802 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11803 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11804 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11807 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11808 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11811 o Minor features (geoip):
11812 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11815 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11816 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11817 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11818 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11819 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11821 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11822 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11823 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11825 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11826 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11827 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11828 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11829 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11830 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11832 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11833 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
11834 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
11837 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11838 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11839 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11840 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11841 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11844 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
11845 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11846 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
11847 to another of the releases coming out today.
11849 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
11850 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
11851 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11853 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11854 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11855 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11856 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11857 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11858 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11859 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11860 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11861 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11862 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11863 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11865 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11866 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11867 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11868 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11869 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11870 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11871 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11874 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11875 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11876 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11877 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11878 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11880 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11881 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11882 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11883 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11884 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11885 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11886 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
11887 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
11888 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11890 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11891 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11892 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11893 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11894 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11895 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11898 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11899 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
11900 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
11901 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
11902 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
11903 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
11905 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
11906 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11907 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11908 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11909 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11912 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11913 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11916 o Minor features (geoip):
11917 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11920 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11921 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11922 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11923 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11924 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11926 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11927 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11928 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11930 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11931 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11932 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11933 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11934 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11935 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11937 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11938 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11939 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11940 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11941 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11943 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11944 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
11945 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
11948 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
11949 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11950 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
11951 to another of the releases coming out today.
11953 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11954 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11955 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11956 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11957 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11958 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11961 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11962 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11963 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11964 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11965 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11966 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11967 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11968 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11969 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11970 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11971 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11973 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11974 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11975 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11976 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11977 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11978 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11979 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11982 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11983 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11984 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11985 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11986 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11988 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11989 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11990 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11991 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11992 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11993 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11995 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
11996 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11997 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11998 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11999 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12002 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12003 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12006 o Minor features (geoip):
12007 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12010 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12011 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12012 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12013 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12014 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12015 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12017 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12018 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12019 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12020 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12021 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12023 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12024 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12025 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12027 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12028 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12029 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12030 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12031 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12032 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12034 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12035 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12036 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12037 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12038 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12040 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12041 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12042 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12045 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
12046 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12047 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12048 to another of the releases coming out today.
12050 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
12051 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
12052 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12054 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12055 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12056 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12057 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12058 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12059 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12060 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12061 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12062 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12063 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12064 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12065 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12066 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12067 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12068 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12071 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12072 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12073 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12074 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12075 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12077 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12078 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
12079 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
12080 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
12081 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
12084 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12085 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12086 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12087 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12088 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12091 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12092 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12095 o Minor features (geoip):
12096 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12099 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12100 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12101 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12104 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
12105 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12106 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12107 to another of the releases coming out today.
12109 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
12110 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
12111 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12113 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12114 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12115 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12116 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12117 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12118 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12119 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12120 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12121 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12122 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12123 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12124 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12125 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12126 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12127 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12130 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12131 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12132 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12133 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12134 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12135 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12137 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12138 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12139 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12140 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12141 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12144 o Minor features (geoip):
12145 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12149 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
12150 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12151 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12153 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
12154 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
12155 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12157 o Directory authority changes:
12158 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12159 Closes ticket 23910.
12160 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12161 Closes ticket 23592.
12163 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12164 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12165 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12166 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12167 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12169 o Minor features (geoip):
12170 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12173 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12174 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12175 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12176 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12177 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12178 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12179 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12180 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12181 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12183 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12184 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12185 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12186 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12187 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12188 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12189 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12190 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12191 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12194 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
12195 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12196 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
12197 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12199 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
12200 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
12201 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12203 o Directory authority changes:
12204 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12205 Closes ticket 23910.
12206 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12207 Closes ticket 23592.
12209 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12210 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12211 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12212 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12214 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12215 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12216 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12217 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12218 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12220 o Minor features (geoip):
12221 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12225 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
12226 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12227 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
12228 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12230 o Directory authority changes:
12231 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12232 Closes ticket 23910.
12233 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12234 Closes ticket 23592.
12236 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12237 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12238 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12239 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12241 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12242 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12243 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12244 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12245 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12247 o Minor features (geoip):
12248 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12251 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12252 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
12253 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
12254 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
12255 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
12256 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
12257 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
12258 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
12261 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12262 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
12263 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12265 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12266 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
12267 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
12268 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
12269 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
12270 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12271 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
12274 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
12275 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12276 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
12277 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12279 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
12280 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
12281 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12283 o Directory authority changes:
12284 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12285 Closes ticket 23910.
12286 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12287 Closes ticket 23592.
12289 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12290 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12291 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12292 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12294 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12295 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12296 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12297 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12298 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12300 o Minor features (geoip):
12301 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12304 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12305 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
12306 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
12307 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
12308 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
12309 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
12310 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
12311 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
12314 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12315 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
12316 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
12317 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12319 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12320 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
12321 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12323 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12324 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
12325 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
12326 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
12327 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
12328 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12329 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
12332 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
12333 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
12334 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
12335 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
12336 a new directory authority, Bastet.
12338 o Directory authority changes:
12339 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12340 Closes ticket 23910.
12341 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12342 Closes ticket 23592.
12344 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12345 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12346 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12347 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12349 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12350 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12351 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12352 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12353 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12355 o Minor features (geoip):
12356 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12359 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12360 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
12361 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
12362 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
12364 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12365 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
12366 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
12369 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12370 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
12371 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
12373 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12374 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
12375 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
12376 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12378 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12379 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
12380 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12382 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12383 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
12384 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
12388 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
12389 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
12392 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
12393 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
12394 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
12395 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12397 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
12398 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
12399 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
12400 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
12402 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12403 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12404 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12405 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12406 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12409 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12412 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12413 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
12414 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
12417 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12418 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12419 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12420 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12421 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12422 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12423 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12424 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12425 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12427 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12428 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12429 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12430 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12431 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12432 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12433 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12434 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12435 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12438 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
12439 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
12442 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
12443 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
12444 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
12445 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12447 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
12448 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
12449 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
12450 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
12451 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
12452 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
12453 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
12455 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
12456 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
12457 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
12458 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12460 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
12461 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
12462 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12464 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12465 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
12466 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12467 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
12469 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12470 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12471 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12472 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12473 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12475 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12476 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
12477 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
12478 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
12480 o Minor features (geoip):
12481 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12484 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12485 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
12486 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
12487 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
12489 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12490 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
12491 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12492 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
12493 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12494 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
12495 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
12496 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12498 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12499 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
12500 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12502 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12503 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
12504 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
12507 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12508 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
12509 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12510 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
12511 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12513 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12514 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
12515 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
12516 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
12517 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
12518 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12520 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12521 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12522 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12523 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12524 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12525 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12526 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12527 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12528 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12530 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12531 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
12532 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
12533 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12535 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12536 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
12537 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12539 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12540 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
12541 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
12542 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
12543 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12545 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
12546 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
12547 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
12550 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12551 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
12552 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
12553 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
12554 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12556 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12557 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12558 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12559 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12560 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12561 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12562 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12563 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12564 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12567 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
12568 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
12571 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
12572 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
12573 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
12574 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12576 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12577 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
12578 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
12579 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
12582 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12585 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12586 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
12587 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12589 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12590 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
12591 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12592 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
12593 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12595 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12596 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
12597 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
12598 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12600 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12601 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
12602 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
12604 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
12605 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
12606 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
12607 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
12610 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
12611 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
12613 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
12614 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
12615 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
12616 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
12617 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
12618 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
12619 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
12621 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
12622 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
12623 disabled. For more information, see
12624 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12626 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
12627 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
12628 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
12629 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
12630 with the 0.2.9 series.
12632 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.0. For a list of all
12633 changes since 0.3.1.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
12635 o New dependencies:
12636 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
12637 pkg-config tool at build time.
12639 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
12640 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
12641 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
12642 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12643 This is also tracked as TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
12645 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
12646 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12647 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12648 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12649 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12650 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12651 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12652 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12653 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12655 o Major features (directory protocol):
12656 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
12657 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
12658 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
12659 now request these documents when available. When both client and
12660 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
12661 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
12662 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
12663 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
12664 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
12665 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
12666 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
12667 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
12668 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
12669 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
12670 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
12671 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
12672 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
12674 o Major features (experimental):
12675 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
12676 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
12677 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
12678 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
12679 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
12680 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
12681 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
12683 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
12684 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
12685 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
12686 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
12687 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
12688 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
12691 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
12692 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
12693 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
12694 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
12695 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
12696 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
12697 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
12698 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
12699 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
12700 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
12701 multiples of 10000.
12703 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
12704 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
12705 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
12706 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12707 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12708 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12709 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12712 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
12713 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
12714 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
12715 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
12716 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
12717 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
12719 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
12720 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
12721 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
12722 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
12723 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
12724 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
12725 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
12726 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
12727 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
12728 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
12729 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
12730 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
12731 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
12732 Otherwise it is at info.
12734 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
12735 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
12736 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
12737 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12738 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
12739 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
12740 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12742 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
12743 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
12744 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12745 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
12747 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
12748 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12749 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12750 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12751 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12753 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
12754 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
12755 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
12756 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
12757 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
12758 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
12759 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
12762 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
12763 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
12764 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
12765 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
12766 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
12767 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
12768 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
12769 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12770 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
12771 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
12772 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
12773 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
12774 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
12777 o Minor features (security, windows):
12778 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12779 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12780 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12781 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12782 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12784 o Minor features (bridge authority):
12785 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
12786 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
12788 o Minor features (code style):
12789 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
12790 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
12791 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
12793 o Minor features (config options):
12794 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
12795 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
12796 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
12797 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
12798 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
12799 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
12800 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
12801 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
12803 o Minor features (controller):
12804 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
12805 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
12807 o Minor features (defaults):
12808 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
12809 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
12810 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
12811 can. Closes ticket 21407.
12812 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
12813 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
12814 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
12815 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
12816 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
12817 Closes ticket 21641.
12819 o Minor features (defensive programming):
12820 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
12821 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
12822 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
12825 o Minor features (diagnostic):
12826 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
12827 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
12828 attempt for bug 23105.
12829 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
12830 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
12831 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
12832 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
12833 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
12834 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
12835 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
12837 o Minor features (directory authority):
12838 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
12839 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
12840 Closes ticket 22348.
12842 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
12843 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
12844 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
12845 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
12846 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
12849 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
12850 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
12851 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
12852 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
12853 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
12854 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
12855 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
12857 o Minor features (geoip):
12858 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12861 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
12862 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
12863 introduction points than specified in
12864 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
12865 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
12866 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
12867 21594; closes ticket 21622.
12868 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
12869 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
12870 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
12871 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
12873 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12874 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
12875 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
12876 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
12877 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
12878 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
12879 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
12880 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
12881 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
12882 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
12884 o Minor features (logging):
12885 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
12886 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
12887 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
12888 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
12891 o Minor features (performance):
12892 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
12893 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
12895 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
12896 speed some controller functions.
12898 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
12899 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
12900 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
12901 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
12903 o Minor features (relay, performance):
12904 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
12905 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
12906 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
12907 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
12908 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
12911 o Minor features (safety):
12912 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
12913 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
12914 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
12917 o Minor features (testing):
12918 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
12920 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
12921 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
12922 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
12923 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
12924 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
12925 on. Closes ticket 21439.
12926 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
12927 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
12928 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
12929 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
12930 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
12931 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
12932 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
12933 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
12934 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
12935 21507. Partially implements 21470.
12937 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
12938 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
12939 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
12940 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
12942 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12943 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
12944 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
12945 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
12948 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
12949 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
12950 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12951 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
12952 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12953 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
12954 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
12955 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
12958 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12959 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
12960 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12962 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
12963 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
12964 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
12965 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
12966 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
12967 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
12969 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
12970 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
12971 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12973 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
12974 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
12975 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
12976 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
12977 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
12978 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
12979 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
12980 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
12981 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
12982 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
12983 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
12984 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
12985 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
12986 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
12988 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12989 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
12990 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12991 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
12992 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12993 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
12994 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12995 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
12996 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
12997 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
12998 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
12999 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13001 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13002 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13003 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13005 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
13006 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13007 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13008 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13009 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13010 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13012 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
13013 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
13014 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
13015 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
13016 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13017 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13018 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13019 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13020 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13021 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13022 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13023 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13025 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
13026 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13027 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13028 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13029 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13030 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13031 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13032 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13034 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
13035 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
13036 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13037 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
13038 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
13039 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
13041 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
13042 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
13043 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
13046 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
13047 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
13048 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
13049 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
13050 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
13052 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
13053 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
13054 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13055 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
13056 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
13057 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13058 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
13059 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13060 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
13061 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
13062 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13064 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
13065 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13066 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13067 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13069 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13070 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
13071 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
13072 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
13073 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
13074 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
13075 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
13076 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
13077 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
13078 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
13079 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13080 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
13081 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
13082 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13084 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
13085 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
13086 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
13087 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
13088 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
13089 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
13090 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13092 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13093 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13094 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13095 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13096 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13097 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13098 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13100 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13101 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
13102 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
13103 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
13104 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
13105 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
13106 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
13107 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
13108 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
13109 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
13110 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13111 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
13112 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
13114 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
13115 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
13116 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
13117 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
13119 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
13120 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
13121 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
13123 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
13124 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
13125 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
13126 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
13128 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13129 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
13130 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
13131 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13133 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13134 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
13135 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
13136 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13137 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13138 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13139 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
13140 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
13141 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
13143 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
13144 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
13145 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
13146 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
13147 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
13148 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
13149 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
13152 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
13153 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
13154 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
13155 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
13156 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
13157 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
13159 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13160 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
13161 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13162 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
13163 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
13164 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13165 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
13166 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13167 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
13168 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
13169 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
13170 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
13171 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
13172 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13173 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
13174 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
13177 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
13178 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
13179 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
13180 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
13181 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13183 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
13184 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13185 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13186 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13187 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13188 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13189 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13191 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
13192 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
13193 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13195 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13196 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
13197 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
13198 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
13199 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
13200 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
13201 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
13202 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
13203 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
13204 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
13205 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
13206 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
13208 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
13209 Resolves ticket 22213.
13210 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
13211 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
13212 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
13213 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
13214 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
13215 types. Closes ticket 21651.
13216 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
13217 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
13220 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
13222 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
13223 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
13225 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
13226 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
13227 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
13229 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
13231 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
13232 Closes ticket 21873.
13233 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
13234 Closes ticket 21151.
13235 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
13236 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
13238 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
13239 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13240 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
13241 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
13243 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
13244 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
13245 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
13246 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
13247 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
13248 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
13249 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
13250 default behavior is now unavailable.
13251 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
13252 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
13253 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
13254 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
13255 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
13256 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
13257 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
13259 o Removed features (tools):
13260 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
13261 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
13262 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
13263 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
13264 required. Closes ticket 21842.
13267 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
13268 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
13269 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
13270 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
13272 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13273 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13274 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13275 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13276 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13277 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13278 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13279 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13280 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13282 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13283 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
13284 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13285 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
13287 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13288 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13289 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13290 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13291 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13293 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13294 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13297 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
13298 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13299 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13300 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13302 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13303 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
13304 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13305 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
13306 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13307 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
13308 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
13309 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
13312 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13313 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13314 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13317 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13318 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13319 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13320 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13321 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13322 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13324 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13325 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
13326 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
13327 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13329 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13330 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13331 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13333 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
13334 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
13335 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13338 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
13339 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
13340 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
13341 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
13342 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
13345 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
13348 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13349 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
13350 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
13351 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
13352 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
13353 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
13355 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13356 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
13357 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
13358 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13360 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13361 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
13362 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
13363 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13365 o Minor features (geoip):
13366 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13369 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13370 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
13371 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
13372 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
13373 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13375 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13376 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13377 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13378 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13379 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13381 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13382 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13383 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13384 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13385 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13386 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13387 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13388 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13389 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13392 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
13393 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
13394 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13395 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13396 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
13398 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
13399 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
13400 bugfixes described below.
13402 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
13403 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13404 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
13405 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
13406 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13407 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13408 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13409 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13412 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13413 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13414 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13415 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13416 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13417 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13418 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13421 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13422 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
13423 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
13424 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
13425 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
13426 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
13427 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
13428 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13429 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
13430 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
13431 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
13432 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
13433 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
13436 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13437 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
13438 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
13441 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13442 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13443 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13444 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13445 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13447 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13448 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
13449 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13451 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13452 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13453 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13455 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13456 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
13457 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
13458 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
13459 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
13460 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
13461 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13463 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
13465 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13466 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13467 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13470 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
13471 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13472 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13473 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13474 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13475 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13477 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
13478 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
13479 bugfixes described below.
13481 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
13482 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13483 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13484 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13485 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13488 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13489 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13490 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13491 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13492 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13493 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13494 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13497 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13498 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13499 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13500 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13501 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13503 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
13504 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
13505 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
13506 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
13507 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
13508 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
13509 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
13511 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
13512 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
13513 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
13514 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
13515 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
13517 o Minor features (geoip):
13518 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13521 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
13522 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
13523 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
13524 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13526 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13527 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13528 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13530 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
13531 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
13532 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
13533 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
13534 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
13537 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
13538 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
13539 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13540 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13541 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13543 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
13544 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13545 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13546 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13547 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13548 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13550 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13551 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13552 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13553 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13556 o Minor features (geoip):
13557 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13560 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13561 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13562 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13563 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13564 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13566 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13567 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13568 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13570 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
13571 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13572 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13573 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13574 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13575 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13577 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13578 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13579 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13580 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13583 o Minor features (geoip):
13584 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13587 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13588 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13589 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13592 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
13593 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13594 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13595 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13596 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13597 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13599 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13600 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13601 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13602 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13605 o Minor features (geoip):
13606 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13609 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13610 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13611 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13613 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
13614 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13615 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13616 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13617 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13618 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13620 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13621 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13622 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13623 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13626 o Minor features (geoip):
13627 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13630 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13631 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13632 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13634 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
13635 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13636 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13637 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13638 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13639 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13641 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13642 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13643 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13644 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13647 o Minor features (geoip):
13648 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13651 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13652 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13653 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13656 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
13657 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
13658 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
13659 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
13660 clients are not affected.
13662 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
13663 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
13664 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
13665 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
13666 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
13667 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13670 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13673 o Minor features (future-proofing):
13674 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
13675 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
13676 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
13677 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
13678 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
13679 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
13681 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13682 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
13683 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
13684 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
13685 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
13689 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
13690 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
13692 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
13693 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
13694 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
13695 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
13696 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
13697 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
13700 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
13701 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
13703 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
13704 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
13705 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
13706 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
13707 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
13709 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes
13710 since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
13712 o Major features (directory authority, security):
13713 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
13714 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
13715 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
13717 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
13718 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
13719 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
13720 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
13721 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
13724 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
13725 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
13726 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
13727 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
13728 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
13729 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
13730 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
13731 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
13734 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
13735 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
13736 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
13737 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
13738 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
13739 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
13740 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
13741 15056; part of proposal 220.
13742 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
13743 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
13744 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
13745 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
13746 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
13747 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
13748 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
13749 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
13750 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
13753 o Major features (security):
13754 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
13755 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
13756 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
13757 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
13758 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
13759 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
13761 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
13762 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
13763 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
13764 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
13765 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
13766 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
13767 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
13768 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
13769 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
13770 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
13771 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13773 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
13774 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
13775 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
13776 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
13778 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
13779 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
13780 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
13781 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
13784 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
13785 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
13786 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13788 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
13789 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
13790 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
13791 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
13792 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
13793 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
13794 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13796 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
13797 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13798 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13799 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13800 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13801 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13802 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13803 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
13804 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
13805 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
13806 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
13807 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
13808 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
13809 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
13810 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
13812 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
13813 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
13814 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
13815 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
13816 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13818 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
13819 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
13820 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
13821 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it
13822 on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
13823 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
13824 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13826 o Minor feature (client):
13827 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
13828 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
13830 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
13831 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
13832 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
13833 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
13835 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
13836 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
13837 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
13839 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
13840 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
13841 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
13842 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
13843 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
13845 o Minor features (controller):
13846 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
13847 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
13848 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
13849 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
13852 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
13853 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
13854 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
13855 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
13856 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
13857 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
13858 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
13859 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
13860 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
13861 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
13863 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
13864 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
13865 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
13868 o Minor features (directory authorities):
13869 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
13870 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
13872 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
13873 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
13874 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13876 o Minor features (directory authority):
13877 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
13878 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
13879 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
13880 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
13881 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
13883 o Minor features (directory cache):
13884 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
13885 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
13888 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
13889 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
13890 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
13891 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
13893 o Minor features (entry guards):
13894 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
13895 break regression tests.
13896 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
13897 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
13899 o Minor features (fallback directories):
13900 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
13901 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
13902 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
13903 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
13904 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
13905 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
13906 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
13907 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
13908 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
13909 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
13910 Closes ticket 20539.
13911 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
13912 Closes ticket 20822.
13913 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
13915 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
13916 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
13917 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
13918 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
13919 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
13921 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
13922 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
13923 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
13924 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
13925 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
13928 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
13929 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
13930 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
13931 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
13933 o Minor features (geoip):
13934 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13937 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
13938 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13941 o Minor features (infrastructure):
13942 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
13943 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
13945 o Minor features (linting):
13946 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
13947 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
13949 o Minor features (logging):
13950 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
13951 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
13953 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
13954 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
13955 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
13957 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
13958 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
13960 o Minor features (relay):
13961 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
13962 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
13963 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
13964 Written by Michael Sonntag.
13966 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
13967 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
13968 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
13971 o Minor features (testing):
13972 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
13973 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
13974 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
13976 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
13977 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
13978 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
13979 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
13980 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
13981 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
13982 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
13983 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
13984 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13986 o Minor bugfix (logging):
13987 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
13988 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
13989 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
13990 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
13993 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
13994 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
13995 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
13996 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
13998 o Minor bugfixes (build):
13999 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
14000 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
14003 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
14004 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
14005 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
14007 o Minor bugfixes (client):
14008 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
14009 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
14010 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14011 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
14012 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
14013 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
14015 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14016 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
14017 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
14019 o Minor bugfixes (config):
14020 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
14021 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
14022 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
14023 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14025 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
14026 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
14027 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14028 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
14029 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
14030 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
14032 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
14033 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
14034 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
14035 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
14036 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
14037 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
14038 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
14041 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
14042 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
14043 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
14044 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
14045 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
14047 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
14048 - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
14049 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
14050 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14052 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
14053 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
14054 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
14055 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
14056 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14058 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
14059 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
14060 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
14061 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
14062 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14064 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
14065 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
14066 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
14067 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14068 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
14069 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
14070 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
14073 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
14074 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
14075 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
14076 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
14077 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14078 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
14079 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
14080 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
14081 on all recent tor versions.
14083 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
14084 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
14085 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
14087 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
14088 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
14089 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14091 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14092 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
14093 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
14094 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
14095 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
14096 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
14097 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
14098 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
14099 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14101 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14102 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
14103 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
14104 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
14105 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14106 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
14107 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
14108 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14109 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
14110 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
14111 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
14114 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14115 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
14116 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
14117 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14118 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
14119 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
14120 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
14121 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14122 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
14123 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
14124 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
14127 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
14128 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
14129 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14130 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
14131 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
14132 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
14133 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
14134 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
14136 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
14137 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
14138 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
14141 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
14142 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
14143 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14145 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14146 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
14147 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
14148 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
14151 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
14152 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
14153 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
14154 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
14156 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
14157 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14159 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14160 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
14161 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
14163 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
14164 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
14165 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
14166 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
14168 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14169 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
14170 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein".
14171 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
14172 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14173 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
14174 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
14175 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14177 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
14178 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
14179 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
14180 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
14181 Patch by "junglefowl".
14183 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
14184 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
14185 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
14186 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
14187 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
14189 o Minor bugfixes (util):
14190 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
14191 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
14192 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
14193 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
14195 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
14196 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
14197 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
14200 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
14201 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
14202 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
14203 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
14205 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14206 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
14207 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
14208 Closes ticket 19858.
14209 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
14210 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
14211 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
14212 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
14213 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
14214 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
14215 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
14216 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
14217 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
14218 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
14219 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
14220 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
14221 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
14222 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
14223 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
14224 redundant with the similar structures used in the
14225 channel abstraction.
14226 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
14227 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
14228 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
14229 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
14230 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
14231 replaced with code automatically generated by the
14234 o Documentation (formatting):
14235 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
14236 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
14238 o Documentation (man page):
14239 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
14240 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
14243 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
14244 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
14246 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
14247 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
14248 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
14250 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
14251 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
14252 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
14253 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14254 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
14255 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
14256 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
14257 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
14258 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
14259 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
14261 o Removed features:
14262 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
14263 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
14264 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
14266 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
14267 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
14268 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
14271 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
14272 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
14273 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
14275 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
14276 from "overcaffeinated".
14277 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
14278 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
14281 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
14282 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
14283 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
14284 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14285 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
14288 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
14289 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
14290 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14292 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14293 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14294 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14295 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14296 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14297 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14298 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14300 o Minor features (geoip):
14301 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14305 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
14306 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14307 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
14308 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14311 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
14312 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
14313 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14315 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14316 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14318 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14319 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14320 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14322 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14323 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14324 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14327 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14328 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14329 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14330 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14331 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14332 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14333 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14334 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14335 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14337 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14338 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14339 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14340 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14341 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14342 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14343 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14344 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14345 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14346 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14347 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14348 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14349 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14351 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14352 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14353 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14354 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14355 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14357 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14358 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14359 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14361 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14362 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14363 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14364 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14365 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14366 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14367 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14370 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14371 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14372 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14373 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14374 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14375 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14376 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14378 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14379 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14380 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14381 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14384 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14385 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14386 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14387 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14389 o Minor features (geoip):
14390 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14394 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
14395 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14396 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
14397 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14400 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
14401 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
14402 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14404 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14405 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14407 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14408 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14409 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14411 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14412 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14413 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14416 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14417 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14418 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14419 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14420 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14421 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14422 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14423 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14424 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14426 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14427 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14428 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14429 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14430 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14431 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14432 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14433 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14434 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14436 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14437 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14438 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14439 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14440 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14442 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
14443 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14444 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14445 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14446 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14449 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14450 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14451 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14452 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14453 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14455 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14456 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14457 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14459 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14460 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14461 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14462 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14463 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14464 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14467 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14468 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14469 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14470 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14471 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14472 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14473 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14476 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14477 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14478 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14479 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14480 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14481 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14482 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14484 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14485 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14486 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14487 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14490 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14491 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14492 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14493 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14495 o Minor features (geoip):
14496 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14499 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14500 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14501 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14504 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
14505 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14506 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
14507 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14510 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
14511 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
14512 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14514 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14515 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14517 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14518 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14519 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14521 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14522 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14523 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14526 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14527 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14528 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14529 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14530 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14531 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14532 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14533 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14534 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14536 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14537 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14538 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14539 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14540 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14541 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14542 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14543 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14544 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14546 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14547 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14548 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14549 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14550 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14552 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
14553 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14554 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14555 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14556 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14559 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14560 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14561 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14562 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14563 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14565 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14566 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14567 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14569 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14570 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14571 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14572 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14573 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14574 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14577 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14578 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14579 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14580 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14581 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14582 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14583 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14586 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14587 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14588 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14589 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14590 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14591 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14592 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14594 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14595 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14596 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14597 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14600 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14601 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14602 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14603 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14605 o Minor features (geoip):
14606 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14609 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14610 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14611 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14613 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
14614 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
14615 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
14616 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
14617 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
14618 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
14620 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14621 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
14622 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
14626 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
14627 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14628 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
14629 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14632 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
14633 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
14634 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14636 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14637 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14639 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14640 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14641 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14643 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14644 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14645 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14648 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14649 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14650 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14651 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14652 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14653 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14654 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14655 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14656 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14658 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14659 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14660 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14661 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14662 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14663 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14664 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14665 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14666 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14668 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
14669 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14670 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14671 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14672 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14675 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14676 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14677 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14678 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14679 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14681 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14682 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14683 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14685 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14686 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14687 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14688 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14689 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14690 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14693 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14694 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14695 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14696 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14697 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14698 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14699 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14702 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14703 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14704 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14705 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14706 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14707 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14708 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14710 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14711 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14712 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14713 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14716 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14717 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14718 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14719 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14721 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14722 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
14723 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
14724 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
14726 o Minor features (geoip):
14727 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14730 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14731 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14732 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14734 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14735 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
14736 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
14740 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
14741 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
14742 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
14743 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
14745 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
14746 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
14747 least January of 2020.
14749 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
14750 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
14751 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
14752 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
14755 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
14756 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
14757 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
14758 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
14759 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
14760 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
14761 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14763 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
14764 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14765 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14766 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14767 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14768 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14769 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14771 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
14772 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
14773 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
14775 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
14776 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
14777 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14779 o Minor features (geoip):
14780 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14783 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
14784 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
14785 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
14787 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
14788 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
14790 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
14791 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
14792 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
14794 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
14795 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
14796 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
14797 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
14798 Patch by "junglefowl".
14801 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
14802 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
14803 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
14804 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
14805 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
14806 version should upgrade.
14808 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
14809 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
14811 o Major bugfixes (security):
14812 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
14813 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
14814 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
14815 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
14816 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
14817 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14819 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
14820 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
14821 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
14822 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
14823 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
14824 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
14825 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
14826 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
14827 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
14828 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
14829 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14831 o Minor features (geoip):
14832 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14835 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14836 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
14837 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
14838 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
14840 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
14841 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14844 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
14845 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
14846 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
14847 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
14848 become available for their systems.
14850 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
14853 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
14854 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
14856 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
14857 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14858 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14859 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14860 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14861 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14862 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14863 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14864 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14866 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
14867 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
14868 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
14869 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
14870 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
14872 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
14873 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14877 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
14878 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
14880 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
14881 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
14882 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
14883 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
14884 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
14885 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
14886 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
14887 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
14889 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
14891 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
14892 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
14893 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
14894 become available for their systems.
14896 Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11. For a list of
14897 changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
14899 o New system requirements:
14900 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
14901 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
14902 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
14903 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
14904 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
14905 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
14906 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
14907 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
14908 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
14909 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
14910 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
14912 o Deprecated features:
14913 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
14914 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
14915 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
14916 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
14917 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
14918 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
14919 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
14920 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
14921 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
14922 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
14923 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
14924 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
14925 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
14926 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
14927 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
14928 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
14929 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
14930 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
14931 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
14932 and TransListenAddress.
14934 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
14935 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14936 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14937 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14938 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14939 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14940 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14941 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14942 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14944 o Major features (build, hardening):
14945 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
14946 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
14947 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
14948 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
14949 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
14950 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
14951 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
14952 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
14953 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
14955 o Major features (circuit building, security):
14956 - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
14957 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
14958 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
14960 - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
14961 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
14963 o Major features (compilation):
14964 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
14965 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
14966 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
14967 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
14969 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
14970 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
14971 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
14973 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
14974 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
14975 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
14976 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
14977 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
14978 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
14979 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
14980 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
14982 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
14983 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
14984 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
14985 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
14986 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
14987 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
14988 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
14990 o Major features (resource management):
14991 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
14992 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
14993 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
14994 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
14995 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
14996 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
14998 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
14999 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
15000 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
15001 every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
15002 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
15003 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
15004 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
15005 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
15006 hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
15007 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
15008 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
15010 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
15011 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
15012 "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
15013 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
15014 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
15015 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
15016 This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
15017 to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
15018 particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
15019 part of proposal 264.
15021 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
15022 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
15023 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
15024 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
15026 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
15027 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
15028 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
15029 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
15030 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
15031 download, stop waiting for certificates.
15032 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
15033 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
15034 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
15036 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
15037 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
15038 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
15040 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
15041 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
15042 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
15043 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
15044 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
15045 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
15046 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
15048 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
15049 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
15050 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
15051 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
15052 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
15053 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
15054 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
15055 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
15056 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
15057 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
15059 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
15060 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
15061 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
15062 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
15063 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
15064 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15066 o Minor features (port flags):
15067 - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
15068 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
15069 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
15070 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
15071 18693; patch by "teor".
15073 o Minor features (build, hardening):
15074 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
15075 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
15076 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
15077 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
15078 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
15079 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
15080 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
15081 Closes ticket 18895.
15083 o Minor features (client, directory):
15084 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
15085 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
15086 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
15089 o Minor features (code safety):
15090 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
15091 allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
15092 patch from "U+039b".
15094 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
15095 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
15098 o Minor features (config):
15099 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
15100 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
15102 o Minor features (controller):
15103 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
15104 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
15105 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
15106 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
15107 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
15108 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
15109 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
15110 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
15112 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
15113 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
15114 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
15117 o Minor features (directory authority):
15118 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
15119 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
15120 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
15121 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
15122 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
15123 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
15124 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
15125 Implements ticket 18624.
15126 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
15127 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
15128 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
15131 o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
15132 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
15133 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
15134 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
15135 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
15137 o Minor features (hidden service):
15138 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
15139 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
15140 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
15143 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
15144 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
15145 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
15146 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
15147 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
15148 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
15149 Closes ticket 18365.
15150 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
15151 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
15152 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
15153 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
15155 o Minor features (logging):
15156 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
15157 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
15158 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
15159 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
15160 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
15161 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
15162 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
15163 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
15164 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
15165 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
15167 o Minor features (performance):
15168 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
15169 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
15170 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
15171 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
15172 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
15173 Closes ticket 18815.
15175 o Minor features (relay, usability):
15176 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
15177 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
15178 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
15179 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
15182 o Minor features (security, TLS):
15183 - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
15184 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
15185 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
15186 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
15188 o Minor features (testing):
15189 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
15190 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
15191 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
15192 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
15193 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
15194 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
15195 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
15196 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
15197 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
15198 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
15200 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
15201 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
15202 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
15203 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
15204 (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
15205 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
15206 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
15208 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
15209 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
15210 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
15211 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
15212 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
15213 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
15214 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
15215 assertion as a test failure.
15216 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
15218 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
15219 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
15220 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
15221 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
15222 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
15223 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
15224 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
15225 with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
15226 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
15228 o Minor features (Tor2web):
15229 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
15230 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
15231 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
15233 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
15234 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
15235 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
15236 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
15237 domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
15239 o Minor features (user interface):
15240 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
15241 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
15242 was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
15243 command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
15246 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
15247 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
15248 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
15249 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
15252 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
15253 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
15254 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
15255 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
15256 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
15257 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
15259 o Minor bugfixes (build):
15260 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
15261 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
15262 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15264 o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
15265 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
15266 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
15267 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
15268 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
15270 o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
15271 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
15272 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
15273 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
15274 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
15276 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
15277 - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
15278 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
15279 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
15280 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15282 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
15283 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
15284 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15286 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
15287 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
15288 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15290 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
15291 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
15292 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
15295 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
15296 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
15297 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
15299 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15300 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
15301 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
15303 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
15304 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
15305 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15306 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
15307 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
15308 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
15309 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
15310 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
15312 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
15313 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
15314 handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
15315 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
15317 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
15318 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
15319 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
15320 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15321 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
15322 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
15323 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
15324 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15325 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
15326 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
15328 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
15329 the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
15330 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
15331 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15333 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
15334 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
15335 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
15336 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
15339 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
15340 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
15341 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
15342 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
15344 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
15345 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
15348 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15349 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
15350 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
15351 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
15353 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
15354 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
15356 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
15357 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
15358 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
15359 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
15360 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
15362 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
15363 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
15364 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15366 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
15367 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
15368 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
15370 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15371 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
15372 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
15373 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
15374 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
15375 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15377 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15378 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
15379 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
15381 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
15382 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
15383 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
15384 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
15385 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
15386 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
15387 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
15389 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
15390 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
15391 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15392 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
15393 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15394 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
15395 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15396 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
15397 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
15398 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
15399 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
15400 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
15401 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15402 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
15403 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
15406 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
15407 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
15408 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
15409 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
15410 behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
15411 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
15413 o Minor bugfixes (options):
15414 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
15415 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
15417 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
15418 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
15419 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
15422 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15423 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
15424 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15425 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
15426 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
15427 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15429 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15430 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
15431 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
15432 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
15433 patch from "cypherpunks".
15434 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
15435 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
15436 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
15437 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15438 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
15439 disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
15440 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
15441 generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
15442 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15443 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
15444 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
15446 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
15447 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
15449 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
15450 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
15451 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15452 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
15453 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
15456 o Minor bugfixes (time):
15457 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
15458 bugfix on all released tor versions.
15459 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
15460 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
15461 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
15462 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
15464 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
15465 - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
15466 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
15467 19678. Patch by teor.
15469 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
15470 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
15471 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
15472 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
15473 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
15475 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
15476 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15478 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15479 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
15481 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
15482 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
15483 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
15484 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
15487 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
15488 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
15489 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
15490 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
15491 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
15492 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
15493 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
15494 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
15495 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
15496 tickets 19287 and 19290.
15497 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
15498 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15499 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
15500 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
15501 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
15502 Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
15503 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
15504 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
15506 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
15507 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
15508 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
15509 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
15512 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
15513 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
15515 o Removed features:
15516 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
15517 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
15518 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
15519 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
15520 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
15521 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch
15522 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
15525 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
15526 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
15527 command-line options to enable them.
15528 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
15529 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
15532 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
15533 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
15534 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
15535 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
15538 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15539 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
15540 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
15541 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
15542 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
15543 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
15546 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15547 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
15548 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
15551 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
15552 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
15553 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
15554 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
15556 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15557 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
15558 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
15559 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
15562 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15563 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
15564 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
15565 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
15568 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
15569 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
15570 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
15573 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15574 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
15575 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
15577 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15578 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
15579 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
15581 o Minor features (geoip):
15582 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15586 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
15587 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
15588 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
15589 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
15590 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
15593 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15594 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15595 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15596 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15597 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15598 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15599 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15600 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15601 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15603 o Minor features (geoip):
15604 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15608 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
15609 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
15610 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
15611 who select public relays as their bridges.
15613 o Major bugfixes (crash):
15614 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
15615 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
15616 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
15617 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
15618 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15620 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
15621 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
15622 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
15623 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
15624 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
15627 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
15628 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
15629 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
15631 o Minor features (geoip):
15632 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15636 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
15637 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
15638 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
15639 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
15640 encouraged to upgrade.
15642 o Directory authority changes:
15643 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15644 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15646 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
15647 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
15648 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
15649 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
15650 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
15651 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15653 o Minor features (geoip):
15654 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15657 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15658 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
15659 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
15662 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
15663 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
15664 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
15665 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
15668 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
15670 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
15672 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
15673 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
15674 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
15675 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
15676 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
15677 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
15679 Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
15681 o New system requirements:
15682 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
15683 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
15684 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
15686 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
15687 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
15688 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
15689 longer runs with, these versions.
15690 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
15691 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
15692 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
15693 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
15694 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
15696 o Directory authority changes:
15697 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15698 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15700 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15702 o Major features (directory system):
15703 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
15704 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
15705 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
15706 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
15707 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
15708 gsathya, and karsten.
15709 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
15710 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
15711 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
15712 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
15713 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
15715 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
15716 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
15717 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
15718 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
15719 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
15720 4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
15721 mikeperry and teor.
15723 o Major features (security, Linux):
15724 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
15725 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
15726 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
15727 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
15728 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
15730 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
15731 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
15732 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
15733 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
15734 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
15735 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
15736 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
15738 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
15739 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
15742 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
15743 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15744 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15746 o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
15747 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
15748 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
15749 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
15750 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
15752 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
15753 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
15754 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
15755 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15756 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
15757 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
15758 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
15759 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
15760 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
15761 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15763 o Major bugfixes (key management):
15764 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15765 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15766 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15767 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15768 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15769 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15772 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
15773 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15774 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15775 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15776 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15778 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
15779 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
15780 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
15781 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
15782 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
15783 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
15784 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
15785 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
15786 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15788 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
15789 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15790 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15791 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15792 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15794 o Major bugfixes (testing):
15795 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
15796 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15798 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
15799 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
15800 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
15801 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15803 o Minor features (accounting):
15804 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
15805 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
15806 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
15807 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
15809 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
15810 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15811 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15812 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15813 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
15814 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
15815 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
15818 o Minor features (build):
15819 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
15820 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
15821 Steven Chamberlain.
15822 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
15823 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
15824 patch from "cypherpunks".
15825 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
15826 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
15827 tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
15828 numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
15829 17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
15830 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
15831 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
15832 Patch from intrigeri.
15834 o Minor features (clients):
15835 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
15836 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
15837 ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
15839 o Minor features (controller):
15840 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
15841 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
15842 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
15844 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
15845 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
15846 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
15847 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
15848 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
15850 o Minor features (crypto):
15851 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
15852 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
15854 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
15855 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
15856 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
15857 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
15858 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
15860 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
15861 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
15862 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
15863 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
15865 o Minor features (directory downloads):
15866 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
15867 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
15868 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
15869 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
15870 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
15871 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
15872 17864; patch by teor.
15874 o Minor features (geoip):
15875 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15878 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
15879 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
15880 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
15881 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
15882 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
15884 o Minor features (IPv6):
15885 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
15886 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
15887 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
15888 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
15889 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
15890 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
15891 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
15892 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
15893 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
15894 from Nick Mathewson and teor.
15895 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
15896 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
15898 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
15899 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
15900 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
15901 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
15902 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
15903 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
15904 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
15905 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
15906 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
15907 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
15909 o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15910 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
15911 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
15912 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
15913 while fixing 18548.
15915 o Minor features (logging):
15916 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
15917 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
15918 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
15919 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
15922 o Minor features (portability):
15923 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
15924 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
15926 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
15927 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
15928 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
15929 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
15930 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
15932 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
15933 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
15934 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
15935 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
15936 Resolves ticket 17951.
15938 o Minor features (replay cache):
15939 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
15940 feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
15942 o Minor features (robustness):
15943 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
15944 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
15945 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
15947 o Minor features (security, clock):
15948 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
15949 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
15950 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
15951 teor. Implements ticket 17188.
15953 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
15954 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
15955 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
15956 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
15957 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
15958 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
15960 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
15961 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15962 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15963 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15965 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
15966 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
15967 Implements ticket 17026.
15968 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
15969 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
15970 Implements feature 17986.
15971 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
15972 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
15973 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
15975 o Minor features (security, RNG):
15976 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
15977 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
15978 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
15979 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
15980 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
15981 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
15982 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
15983 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
15984 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
15985 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
15988 o Minor features (security, win32):
15989 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
15990 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
15993 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
15994 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
15995 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
15996 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
15997 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
15998 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
15999 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
16002 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
16003 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
16004 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
16005 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
16006 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16007 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
16008 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
16009 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
16010 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
16011 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
16012 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16013 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
16014 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
16015 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16017 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
16018 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
16019 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
16020 from "unixninja92".
16022 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
16023 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
16024 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
16027 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
16028 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
16029 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
16031 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16032 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
16033 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
16034 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16035 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
16036 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
16038 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
16039 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
16041 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
16042 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
16043 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
16044 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
16045 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
16047 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
16048 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16049 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
16050 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
16051 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16052 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
16054 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
16055 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
16056 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
16057 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
16058 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16059 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
16060 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
16061 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16062 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
16063 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16064 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
16066 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
16067 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
16070 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
16071 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
16072 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
16073 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
16074 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16076 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16077 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
16078 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
16079 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
16080 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
16081 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16082 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
16083 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
16085 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
16087 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
16088 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
16089 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
16091 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
16092 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
16093 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16095 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16096 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
16097 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16099 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
16100 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
16101 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
16102 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
16104 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
16105 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
16106 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
16107 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
16108 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16110 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
16111 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
16112 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
16114 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
16115 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
16116 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
16117 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
16118 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
16119 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16120 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
16121 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
16122 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
16124 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
16125 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
16126 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
16127 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
16130 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
16131 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
16132 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
16133 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
16134 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
16136 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16137 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
16138 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
16139 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
16140 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
16141 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
16142 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
16143 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
16145 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
16146 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
16147 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
16148 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
16149 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
16150 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
16151 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
16152 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
16153 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
16156 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
16157 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
16158 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
16159 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16161 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
16162 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
16163 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
16165 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
16166 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
16167 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16169 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16170 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
16171 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
16172 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
16173 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
16174 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
16175 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
16176 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16177 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
16178 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
16179 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16180 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
16181 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
16182 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16183 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
16184 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16185 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
16186 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
16187 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
16189 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16190 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
16191 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
16192 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
16193 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
16195 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
16196 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16197 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
16198 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
16199 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
16200 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
16201 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
16202 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
16203 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
16204 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16205 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
16206 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
16209 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
16210 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
16211 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
16212 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
16214 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
16215 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16216 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
16219 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
16220 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
16221 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
16222 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
16224 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
16225 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
16226 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
16227 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
16228 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
16229 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
16232 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
16233 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
16234 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
16235 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
16237 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
16238 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
16239 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
16240 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
16241 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
16242 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
16243 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
16244 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
16245 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16247 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
16248 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
16249 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
16250 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
16251 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
16253 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
16254 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
16255 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
16256 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
16258 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
16259 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
16260 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
16261 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16262 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
16263 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
16264 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
16265 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
16267 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
16268 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
16270 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
16271 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
16272 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
16275 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16276 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
16277 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
16278 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
16280 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
16281 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
16282 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16283 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
16284 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
16285 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
16286 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
16287 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
16288 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
16289 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
16290 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16291 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
16292 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
16293 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
16294 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
16295 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16297 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
16298 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
16299 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
16300 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
16301 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
16302 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
16303 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
16305 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
16306 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
16307 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
16308 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
16310 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16311 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
16312 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
16314 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
16315 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
16316 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
16317 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
16319 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
16320 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
16321 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
16322 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
16323 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
16324 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
16325 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
16326 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
16327 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
16328 17744. Patch from zerosion.
16329 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
16330 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
16331 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
16332 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
16333 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
16334 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
16335 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
16336 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
16337 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
16338 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
16339 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
16340 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
16344 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
16345 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
16346 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
16347 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
16348 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
16349 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
16350 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
16351 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
16352 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
16353 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
16354 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
16355 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
16357 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
16358 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
16360 o Removed features:
16361 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
16362 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
16363 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
16364 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
16365 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
16366 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
16367 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
16368 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
16371 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
16372 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
16373 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
16374 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
16375 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
16376 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
16377 portion of ticket 16831.
16378 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
16380 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
16381 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
16382 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
16383 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
16384 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
16386 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
16387 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
16388 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
16389 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
16392 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
16393 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
16394 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
16396 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
16397 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
16398 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
16399 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
16400 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
16401 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
16404 o Minor features (geoip):
16405 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16408 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16409 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
16410 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
16411 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
16412 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
16413 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
16415 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16416 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
16417 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
16418 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
16419 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
16420 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
16421 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
16422 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16423 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
16424 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16427 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
16428 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
16429 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
16430 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
16431 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
16432 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
16433 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
16434 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
16435 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
16436 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
16437 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
16438 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
16439 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
16440 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
16441 that would make him proud.
16443 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
16445 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
16446 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
16447 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
16448 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
16449 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
16450 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
16451 of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
16453 o New system requirements:
16454 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
16455 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
16457 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
16458 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
16459 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
16460 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
16461 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
16462 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
16463 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
16464 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
16465 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
16466 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
16467 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
16468 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
16469 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
16471 o Major features (controller):
16472 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
16473 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
16475 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
16476 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
16477 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
16478 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
16479 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
16480 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
16481 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
16483 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
16484 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
16485 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
16486 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
16487 key). Closes ticket 13642.
16488 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
16489 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
16490 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
16491 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
16492 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
16493 Implements part of ticket 12498.
16494 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
16495 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
16496 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
16497 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
16498 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
16499 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
16500 part of ticket 12498.
16501 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
16502 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
16504 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
16505 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
16506 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
16507 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
16508 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
16509 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
16510 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
16511 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
16512 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
16515 o Major features (ECC performance):
16516 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
16517 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
16519 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
16520 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
16521 available. Implements ticket 16535.
16522 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
16523 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
16524 Implements ticket 16467.
16525 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
16526 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
16527 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
16528 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
16530 o Major features (Hidden services):
16531 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
16532 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
16533 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
16534 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
16535 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
16536 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
16537 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
16538 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
16539 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
16540 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
16541 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
16542 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
16544 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
16545 introduction points, which used to change the number of
16546 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
16547 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
16549 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
16550 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
16551 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
16552 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
16553 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
16554 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
16556 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
16557 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
16558 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
16559 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
16560 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
16561 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
16563 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
16564 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
16565 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
16566 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
16567 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
16568 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
16569 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
16570 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
16573 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16574 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
16575 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
16576 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
16578 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
16579 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
16580 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
16581 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
16582 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
16583 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
16586 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
16587 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
16588 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
16590 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
16591 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
16592 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
16593 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
16594 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
16595 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
16597 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
16598 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
16599 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
16600 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
16601 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
16604 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
16605 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
16606 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
16607 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
16608 by "cypherpunks_backup".
16609 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
16610 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
16611 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
16614 o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
16615 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
16616 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
16617 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
16619 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
16620 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
16621 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
16622 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
16623 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
16624 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
16625 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
16628 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
16629 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
16630 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
16631 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
16632 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
16633 own. Implements feature 15482.
16634 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
16635 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
16637 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
16638 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
16639 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
16640 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
16641 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
16643 o Minor features (command-line interface):
16644 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
16645 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16646 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
16647 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
16649 o Minor features (compilation):
16650 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
16651 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
16652 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
16653 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
16654 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
16656 o Minor features (control protocol):
16657 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
16658 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
16660 o Minor features (controller):
16661 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
16662 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
16663 present. Implements ticket 14840.
16664 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
16665 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
16666 Closes ticket 14845.
16667 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
16668 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
16669 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
16671 o Minor features (directory authorities):
16672 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
16673 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
16674 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
16675 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
16676 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
16678 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
16679 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
16680 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
16681 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
16682 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
16683 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
16684 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
16686 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
16687 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
16688 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
16689 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
16691 o Minor features (geoip):
16692 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16695 o Minor features (hidden services):
16696 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
16697 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
16698 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
16699 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
16701 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
16702 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
16703 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
16705 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
16706 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
16707 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
16708 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
16709 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
16710 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
16711 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
16712 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
16714 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
16715 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
16716 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
16717 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
16718 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
16719 Closes ticket 15745.
16721 o Minor features (logging):
16722 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
16723 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
16726 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
16727 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
16728 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
16729 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
16731 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
16732 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
16733 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
16734 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
16735 Resolves ticket 15435.
16737 o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
16738 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
16739 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
16740 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16741 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
16742 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
16743 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
16744 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16745 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
16746 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
16747 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
16748 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
16749 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
16750 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
16751 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
16752 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
16753 Related to ticket 16069.
16755 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
16756 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
16757 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
16759 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
16760 stderr, not stdout.
16761 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
16762 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
16763 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
16766 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16767 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
16768 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
16769 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
16770 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
16772 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
16773 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
16774 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
16775 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
16777 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
16778 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
16779 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
16780 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
16781 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
16782 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
16783 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
16784 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16786 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16787 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
16788 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
16789 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16791 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16792 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
16793 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
16795 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
16796 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
16797 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
16799 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
16800 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
16801 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
16802 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16804 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
16805 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
16806 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
16807 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
16808 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
16809 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
16811 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
16812 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
16813 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
16815 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
16816 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16818 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16819 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
16820 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16821 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
16822 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16823 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
16824 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
16825 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
16827 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
16828 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
16829 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
16830 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
16832 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
16833 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
16834 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
16836 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
16837 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
16838 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
16841 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16842 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
16843 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
16844 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
16845 recent enough Clang.
16847 o Minor bugfixes (network):
16848 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
16849 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
16850 unsuitable for public communications.
16852 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
16853 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
16854 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
16855 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
16857 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16858 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
16859 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16860 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
16861 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
16863 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
16864 of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
16866 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16867 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
16868 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
16869 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
16870 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
16872 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
16873 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
16874 from "cypherpunks".
16875 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
16876 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
16879 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
16880 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
16881 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
16882 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
16883 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
16885 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
16886 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
16887 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
16888 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
16889 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
16890 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
16892 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
16893 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
16894 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
16895 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
16897 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
16898 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
16899 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
16900 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
16901 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
16902 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
16903 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
16904 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
16906 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
16907 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
16908 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
16910 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16911 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
16912 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
16913 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
16914 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
16915 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
16916 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
16917 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
16918 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
16919 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
16920 function. Closes ticket 16763.
16921 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
16922 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
16924 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
16925 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
16926 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
16927 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
16928 haven't supported that in ages.
16929 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
16930 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
16931 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
16932 suite of other microdesc functions.
16933 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
16934 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
16935 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
16936 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
16937 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
16938 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
16939 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
16940 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
16941 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
16942 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
16943 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
16944 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
16945 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
16946 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
16947 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
16948 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
16950 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
16951 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
16955 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
16956 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
16957 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
16959 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
16960 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16961 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
16962 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
16963 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
16964 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
16965 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
16966 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
16967 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
16968 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
16970 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
16972 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
16973 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
16974 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
16975 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
16976 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
16977 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
16978 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
16979 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
16980 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
16981 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
16982 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
16983 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
16984 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
16986 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
16987 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
16990 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
16991 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
16992 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
16993 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
16994 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
16995 Closes ticket 14922.
16996 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
16997 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
16998 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
16999 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
17000 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
17001 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
17002 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
17003 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
17004 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
17005 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
17006 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
17007 Closes ticket 13338.
17009 o Removed features:
17010 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
17011 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
17012 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
17013 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
17014 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
17015 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
17016 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
17017 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
17018 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
17019 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
17020 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
17021 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
17022 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
17023 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
17024 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
17027 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
17028 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
17029 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
17030 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
17031 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
17032 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
17033 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
17034 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
17035 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
17036 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
17037 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
17039 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
17040 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
17041 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
17042 Closes ticket 15817.
17043 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
17044 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
17045 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
17046 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
17047 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
17048 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
17049 network before we begin.
17050 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
17051 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
17052 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
17053 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
17054 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
17055 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
17057 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
17058 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
17060 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
17061 default as a part of "make check".
17062 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
17063 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
17064 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
17065 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
17066 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
17067 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
17068 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
17069 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
17070 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
17071 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
17072 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
17073 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
17074 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
17075 files. Closes ticket 15180.
17076 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
17077 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
17078 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
17079 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
17080 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
17081 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
17082 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
17083 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
17084 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
17085 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
17086 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
17087 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
17088 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
17089 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
17090 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
17091 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
17092 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
17094 - Set the severity correctly when testing
17095 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
17096 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
17097 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
17098 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
17100 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
17101 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
17102 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
17103 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
17104 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
17105 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
17107 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
17108 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
17109 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
17110 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
17111 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
17112 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
17113 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
17114 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
17117 o Major bugfixes (stability):
17118 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
17119 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
17120 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
17121 by "cypherpunks_backup".
17122 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
17123 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
17124 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
17127 o Minor features (geoip):
17128 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17129 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17131 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
17132 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
17133 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
17134 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
17135 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
17136 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
17138 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17139 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
17140 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
17141 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
17144 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
17145 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
17146 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
17147 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
17148 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
17150 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
17151 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
17152 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
17153 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
17154 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
17157 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
17158 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
17159 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
17160 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
17161 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
17162 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
17163 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
17165 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17166 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
17167 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
17168 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
17170 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17171 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
17172 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
17173 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
17174 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
17175 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
17178 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
17179 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
17180 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
17183 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
17184 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
17185 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
17186 authorities should upgrade.
17188 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17189 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
17190 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
17191 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
17194 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17195 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17196 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17199 o Minor features (geoip):
17200 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17201 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17205 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
17206 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
17207 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
17208 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
17209 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
17211 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
17212 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
17214 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
17215 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
17216 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
17217 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
17218 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
17219 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
17220 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
17222 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
17223 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
17224 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
17225 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
17226 Resolves ticket 15515.
17227 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
17228 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
17229 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
17233 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
17234 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
17235 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
17236 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
17237 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
17239 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
17240 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
17242 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
17243 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
17244 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
17245 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
17246 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
17247 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
17248 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
17250 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
17251 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
17252 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
17253 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
17254 Resolves ticket 15515.
17257 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
17258 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
17259 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
17260 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
17261 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
17263 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
17264 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
17266 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
17267 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
17268 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
17269 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
17270 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
17271 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
17272 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
17274 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
17275 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
17276 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
17277 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
17278 Resolves ticket 15515.
17281 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
17282 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
17284 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
17285 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
17286 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
17287 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
17288 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
17289 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
17290 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
17291 bugs should be addressed.
17293 o New compiler and system requirements:
17294 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
17295 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
17296 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
17297 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
17299 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
17300 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
17301 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
17302 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
17303 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
17304 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
17305 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
17306 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
17307 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
17309 o Deprecated versions and removed support:
17310 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
17311 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
17312 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
17313 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
17314 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
17315 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
17317 o Directory authority changes:
17318 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
17319 closes ticket 14487.
17320 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
17321 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
17322 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
17324 o Major features (bridges):
17325 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
17326 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
17327 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
17330 o Major features (changed defaults):
17331 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
17332 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
17333 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
17334 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
17335 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
17336 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
17338 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
17339 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
17340 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
17341 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
17344 o Major features (directory system):
17345 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
17346 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
17347 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
17348 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
17349 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
17350 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
17351 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
17352 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
17353 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
17354 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
17355 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
17356 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
17357 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
17358 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
17359 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
17360 227. Closes ticket 10395.
17362 o Major features (guards):
17363 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
17364 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
17365 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
17366 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
17367 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
17369 o Major features (hidden services):
17370 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
17371 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
17372 Closes ticket 13667.
17373 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
17374 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
17375 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
17376 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
17377 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
17378 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
17379 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
17380 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
17381 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
17382 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
17383 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
17385 o Major features (performance):
17386 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
17387 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
17388 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
17389 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
17390 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
17391 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
17392 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
17393 Implements ticket 9682.
17395 o Major features (relay):
17396 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
17397 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
17398 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
17399 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
17400 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
17401 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
17402 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
17403 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
17405 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
17406 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
17407 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
17408 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
17409 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
17410 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
17411 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
17414 o Major features (sample torrc):
17415 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
17416 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
17417 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
17418 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
17419 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
17420 generally useful "sample torrc".
17422 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
17423 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
17424 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
17425 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
17426 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
17427 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
17429 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
17430 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
17431 Implements ticket 11485.
17433 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
17434 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
17435 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
17436 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
17437 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
17438 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
17441 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
17442 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
17443 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
17446 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
17447 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
17448 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17450 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
17451 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
17452 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
17453 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
17454 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
17456 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
17457 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
17458 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
17459 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
17461 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
17462 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
17463 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
17466 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17467 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
17468 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
17469 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
17470 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
17471 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
17473 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17474 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
17475 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
17476 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
17478 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
17479 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
17480 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
17481 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
17482 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
17483 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
17484 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
17486 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
17487 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
17488 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
17489 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
17490 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
17491 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17493 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
17494 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
17495 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
17496 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
17497 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17498 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
17499 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
17500 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17502 o Minor features (build):
17503 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
17504 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
17505 Resolves ticket 13037.
17507 o Minor features (client):
17508 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
17509 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
17510 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
17511 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
17513 o Minor features (client):
17514 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
17515 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
17516 Resolves ticket 13315.
17518 o Minor features (controller):
17519 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
17520 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
17522 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
17523 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
17525 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
17526 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
17527 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
17528 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
17529 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
17530 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
17531 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
17532 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
17533 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
17535 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
17536 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
17537 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
17538 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
17539 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
17540 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
17541 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
17542 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
17543 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
17544 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
17546 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17547 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
17548 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
17549 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
17550 argument more than once.
17551 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
17552 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
17553 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
17554 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
17555 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
17556 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
17558 o Minor features (geoip):
17559 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17560 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17563 o Minor features (guard nodes):
17564 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
17565 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
17566 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
17568 o Minor features (heartbeat):
17569 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
17570 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
17571 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
17572 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
17574 o Minor features (hidden service):
17575 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
17576 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
17577 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
17578 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
17579 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
17580 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
17581 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
17582 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
17583 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
17584 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
17585 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
17586 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
17587 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
17588 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
17590 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
17591 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
17592 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
17594 o Minor features (interface):
17595 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
17596 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
17597 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
17599 o Minor features (logging):
17600 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
17601 Resolves ticket 6852.
17602 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
17603 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
17604 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
17606 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
17607 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
17608 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
17609 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
17610 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
17611 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
17612 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
17613 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
17614 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
17615 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
17616 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
17617 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
17620 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
17621 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
17622 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
17623 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
17625 o Minor features (relay):
17626 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
17627 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
17628 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
17630 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
17631 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
17632 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
17633 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
17634 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
17635 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
17636 document. Implements feature 10427.
17638 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
17639 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
17640 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
17641 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
17643 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
17644 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
17645 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
17646 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
17647 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
17648 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
17650 o Minor features (stability):
17651 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
17652 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
17655 o Minor features (systemd):
17656 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
17657 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
17658 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
17659 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
17660 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
17661 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
17663 o Minor features (testing networks):
17664 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
17665 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
17666 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
17667 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
17668 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
17670 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
17671 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
17672 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
17673 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
17674 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
17675 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
17677 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
17678 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
17679 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
17680 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
17681 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
17683 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
17684 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
17685 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
17686 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
17687 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
17689 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
17690 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
17691 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
17692 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
17693 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
17696 o Minor features (validation):
17697 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
17698 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
17699 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
17700 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
17701 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
17702 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
17703 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
17704 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
17705 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
17706 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
17707 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
17710 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
17711 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
17712 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
17713 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17715 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
17716 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
17717 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
17718 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17720 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
17721 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
17722 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
17724 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
17725 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
17726 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
17728 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
17729 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17730 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
17731 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
17732 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
17733 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
17734 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
17736 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
17737 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
17738 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
17739 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17740 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
17741 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
17742 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
17743 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
17744 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
17746 o Minor bugfixes (client):
17747 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
17748 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
17749 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
17750 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
17751 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17752 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
17753 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
17754 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
17756 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
17757 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
17758 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
17759 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17760 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
17761 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17762 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
17763 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
17765 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
17766 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
17767 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
17770 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
17771 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
17772 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
17773 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
17774 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
17776 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
17777 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
17778 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
17779 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
17780 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
17781 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
17782 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
17783 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17785 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
17786 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
17787 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
17788 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
17789 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17791 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
17792 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
17793 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
17794 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
17795 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
17797 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
17798 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
17799 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17801 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
17802 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
17803 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
17804 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
17805 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
17807 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
17808 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
17809 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
17811 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17812 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
17814 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
17815 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
17816 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
17817 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
17819 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
17820 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
17822 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
17823 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
17824 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
17825 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
17826 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
17827 Addresses ticket 14188.
17828 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
17829 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
17830 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
17831 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
17832 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
17833 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
17834 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
17835 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17836 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
17837 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
17838 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
17841 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17842 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
17843 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
17844 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
17845 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
17846 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
17848 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17849 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
17850 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
17851 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
17852 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
17854 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
17855 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
17856 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
17857 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
17858 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
17859 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
17860 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
17861 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17862 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
17863 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17864 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
17865 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
17866 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17867 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
17868 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
17869 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17871 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
17872 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
17873 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
17874 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17875 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
17876 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
17877 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
17878 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
17881 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
17882 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
17883 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
17884 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
17885 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
17886 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
17887 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
17888 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
17889 state, and key files.
17890 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
17891 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
17894 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17895 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
17896 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
17897 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
17898 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
17899 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
17900 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
17901 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17902 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
17903 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
17904 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
17905 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
17906 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
17907 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
17908 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
17909 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
17910 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
17911 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
17914 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17915 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
17916 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
17917 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
17918 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
17919 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
17920 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
17921 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
17922 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
17923 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17925 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17926 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
17927 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17928 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
17929 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
17930 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
17932 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
17933 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
17935 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
17936 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
17937 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
17938 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
17939 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17941 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
17942 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
17943 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
17944 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
17945 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
17946 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17948 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17949 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
17950 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
17952 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
17953 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
17954 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
17956 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
17957 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
17958 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
17959 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
17960 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
17962 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
17963 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
17964 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
17967 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17968 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
17969 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
17970 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
17971 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
17974 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
17975 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
17976 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
17977 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
17980 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
17981 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
17982 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
17985 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17986 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
17987 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17989 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
17990 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
17991 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
17992 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
17993 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
17996 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
17997 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
17998 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17999 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
18000 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
18001 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
18003 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
18004 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
18005 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
18006 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
18007 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
18008 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
18010 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
18011 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
18012 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
18013 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
18014 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18015 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
18016 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
18017 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
18018 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
18019 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
18020 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
18021 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
18022 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
18023 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
18024 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
18025 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
18026 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
18027 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
18028 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
18029 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18030 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
18031 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
18032 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
18033 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
18034 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
18035 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
18036 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
18037 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18038 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
18039 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
18040 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
18041 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
18043 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
18044 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
18045 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
18046 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
18047 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18049 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18050 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
18051 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
18052 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
18053 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
18054 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18055 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
18056 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
18057 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18059 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
18060 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
18061 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
18063 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
18064 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
18065 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
18068 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
18069 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
18070 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
18071 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
18074 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
18075 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
18076 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18078 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18079 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
18080 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
18082 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
18083 Resolves ticket 12205.
18084 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
18085 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
18086 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
18087 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
18089 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
18090 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
18091 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
18093 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
18094 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
18096 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
18097 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
18098 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
18099 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
18100 or_options_t structure.
18101 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
18102 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
18103 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
18104 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
18105 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
18106 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
18107 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
18108 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
18110 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
18111 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
18113 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
18115 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
18116 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
18117 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
18118 with a function instead.
18119 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
18120 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
18121 Closes ticket 13172.
18122 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
18123 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
18124 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
18125 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
18126 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
18127 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
18128 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
18129 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
18130 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
18131 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
18132 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
18133 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
18137 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
18138 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
18139 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
18140 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
18142 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
18143 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
18144 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
18145 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
18146 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
18147 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
18148 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
18149 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
18150 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
18151 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
18152 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
18153 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
18154 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
18155 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
18156 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
18157 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
18158 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
18159 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
18161 o Distribution (systemd):
18162 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
18163 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
18164 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
18165 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
18166 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
18168 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
18169 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
18171 o Downgraded warnings:
18172 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
18173 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
18176 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
18177 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
18178 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
18181 o Removed features (directory authorities):
18182 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
18183 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
18184 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
18185 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
18186 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
18187 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
18188 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
18189 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
18190 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
18192 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
18193 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
18194 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
18195 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
18198 o Removed features:
18199 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
18200 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
18201 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
18202 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
18203 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
18205 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
18206 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
18207 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
18208 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
18209 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
18210 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
18211 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
18212 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
18213 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
18215 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
18216 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
18218 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
18219 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
18220 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
18221 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
18222 anymore, and ignore it.
18224 o Removed platform support:
18225 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
18226 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
18227 Closes ticket 11446.
18229 o Testing (test-network.sh):
18230 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
18231 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
18233 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
18235 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
18236 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
18237 Partially implements ticket 13161.
18240 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
18241 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
18242 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
18243 (existing behavior).
18244 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
18245 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
18246 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
18247 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
18248 Closes ticket 14107.
18249 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
18250 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18251 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
18252 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
18254 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
18255 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
18256 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
18257 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
18258 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
18259 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
18261 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
18263 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
18264 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
18265 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
18266 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
18267 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
18268 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
18269 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
18270 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
18271 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
18272 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
18273 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
18274 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
18276 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
18277 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
18278 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
18280 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
18281 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
18283 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
18284 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
18285 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
18287 o Directory authority changes:
18288 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
18289 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
18290 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
18291 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
18292 closes ticket 14487.
18294 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
18295 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
18296 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
18299 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
18300 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
18301 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
18302 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
18303 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
18304 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
18305 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
18306 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18308 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
18309 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
18310 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
18311 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18313 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18314 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
18315 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
18316 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
18318 o Minor features (controller):
18319 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
18320 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
18321 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
18323 o Minor features (geoip):
18324 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18325 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18328 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
18329 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
18330 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
18331 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18332 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
18333 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18335 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18336 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
18337 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
18338 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
18340 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18341 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
18342 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
18343 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
18344 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
18345 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
18346 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
18347 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18349 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
18350 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
18351 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18353 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
18354 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
18355 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
18356 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
18357 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
18361 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
18362 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
18363 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
18366 o Directory authority changes:
18367 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
18368 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
18369 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
18370 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
18371 closes ticket 14487.
18373 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
18374 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
18375 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
18376 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18378 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
18379 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
18380 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
18381 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
18382 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
18383 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
18384 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
18385 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18387 o Minor features (geoip):
18388 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18389 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18392 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
18393 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
18395 It adds several new security features, including improved
18396 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
18397 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
18398 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
18399 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
18400 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
18401 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
18402 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
18403 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
18404 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
18405 and features mentioned below.
18407 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
18408 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
18410 o Major features (security):
18411 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
18412 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
18413 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
18414 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
18415 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
18416 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
18417 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
18418 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
18419 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
18420 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
18422 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
18423 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
18424 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
18425 streams attached to each circuit.
18427 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
18428 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
18429 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
18430 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
18431 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
18432 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
18433 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
18434 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
18435 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
18436 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
18437 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
18438 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
18439 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
18441 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
18442 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
18443 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
18444 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
18446 o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
18447 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
18448 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
18449 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
18450 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
18451 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
18453 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
18454 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
18455 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
18456 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
18457 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
18458 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
18459 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
18460 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
18463 o Major features (controller):
18464 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
18465 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
18466 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
18467 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
18468 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
18469 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
18471 o Major features (relay performance):
18472 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
18473 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
18474 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
18475 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
18476 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
18477 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
18478 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
18479 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
18480 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
18481 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
18483 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
18484 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
18485 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
18486 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
18487 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
18488 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
18489 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
18490 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
18491 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
18492 Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
18494 o Major features (testing networks):
18495 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
18496 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
18497 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
18498 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
18499 Implements ticket 8530.
18501 o Major features (other):
18502 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
18503 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
18504 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
18505 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
18506 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
18507 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
18509 o Deprecated versions:
18510 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
18511 attention for some while.
18513 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
18514 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
18515 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
18517 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
18518 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
18519 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
18520 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
18521 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
18522 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
18523 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
18524 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
18525 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
18526 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
18527 router's identity is not forgeable.
18529 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
18530 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
18531 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
18532 bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
18534 o Major bugfixes (client):
18535 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
18536 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
18537 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
18538 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
18539 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
18540 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
18541 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
18542 to build circuits".
18544 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
18545 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
18546 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
18547 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
18550 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
18551 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
18552 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
18553 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
18554 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
18555 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
18556 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18558 o Major bugfixes (relay):
18559 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
18560 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18561 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18562 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
18563 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
18564 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
18565 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18566 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
18567 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
18568 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
18569 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
18570 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
18571 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
18572 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
18573 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
18574 bugfix on every version of Tor.
18576 o Minor features (security):
18577 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
18578 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
18579 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
18580 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
18582 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
18583 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
18584 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
18585 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
18586 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
18587 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
18588 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
18590 o Minor features (security, memory management):
18591 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
18592 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
18593 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
18594 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
18595 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
18596 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
18598 o Minor features (bridge client):
18599 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
18600 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
18601 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
18603 o Minor features (bridge):
18604 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
18605 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
18607 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
18608 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
18609 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
18610 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
18611 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
18612 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
18613 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
18614 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
18615 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
18616 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
18617 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
18618 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
18619 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
18620 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
18621 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
18623 o Minor features (build):
18624 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
18625 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
18626 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
18627 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
18628 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
18629 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
18630 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
18631 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
18632 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
18633 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
18634 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
18635 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
18636 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
18637 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
18638 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
18641 o Minor features (client):
18642 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
18643 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
18644 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
18645 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
18647 o Minor features (config options and command line):
18648 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
18649 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
18650 Implements ticket 10060.
18651 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
18652 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
18653 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
18655 o Minor features (config options):
18656 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
18657 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
18658 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
18659 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
18660 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
18661 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
18662 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
18663 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
18664 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
18665 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
18666 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
18667 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
18668 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
18669 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
18670 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
18671 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
18672 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
18675 o Minor features (controller):
18676 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
18677 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
18679 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
18680 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
18681 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
18682 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
18683 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
18684 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
18685 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
18686 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
18688 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
18689 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
18690 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
18692 o Minor features (diagnostic):
18693 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
18694 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
18695 help diagnose bug 7164.
18696 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
18697 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
18698 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
18699 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
18700 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
18702 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
18703 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
18704 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
18705 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
18706 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
18707 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
18708 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
18709 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
18710 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
18711 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
18712 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
18713 still referenced by a live node_t object.
18714 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
18715 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
18716 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
18718 o Minor features (geoip):
18719 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18722 o Minor features (interface):
18723 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
18724 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
18725 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
18726 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
18728 o Minor features (kernel API usage):
18729 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
18730 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
18732 o Minor features (log messages):
18733 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
18734 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
18735 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
18736 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
18737 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
18738 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
18739 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
18740 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
18742 o Minor features (log verbosity):
18743 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
18744 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
18745 Resolves ticket 5286.
18746 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
18747 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
18748 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
18749 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
18750 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
18751 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
18753 o Minor features (performance):
18754 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
18755 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
18756 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
18757 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
18758 Closes ticket 8109.
18760 o Minor features (relay):
18761 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
18762 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
18763 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
18765 o Minor features (testing):
18766 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
18767 the unit test scripts.
18768 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
18769 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
18770 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
18771 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
18773 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
18774 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
18775 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
18776 10267; patch from "yurivict".
18777 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
18778 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
18779 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
18780 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
18781 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
18782 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
18784 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
18785 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
18786 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
18787 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18789 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
18790 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
18791 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
18792 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
18793 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
18794 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
18795 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
18796 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
18797 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
18798 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
18800 o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
18801 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
18802 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
18804 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
18805 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
18806 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
18807 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
18808 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18810 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18811 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
18812 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
18813 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
18814 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18815 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
18816 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
18817 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
18818 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18819 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
18820 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
18821 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
18823 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
18824 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
18825 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
18826 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
18827 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
18828 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
18829 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
18830 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
18831 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18832 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
18833 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
18834 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18836 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
18837 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
18838 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
18839 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
18841 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
18842 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
18843 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
18844 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
18847 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
18848 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
18849 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
18850 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18851 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
18852 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
18855 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
18856 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
18857 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
18858 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
18859 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
18861 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
18862 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
18863 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
18866 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
18867 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
18868 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
18869 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
18870 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
18871 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
18872 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
18873 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
18874 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
18875 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
18877 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
18878 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
18879 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
18880 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
18881 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
18883 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
18884 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
18886 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18887 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
18888 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
18889 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
18890 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
18891 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
18892 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
18893 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
18894 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
18895 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18896 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
18897 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
18898 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
18900 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
18901 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
18902 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
18903 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
18904 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
18905 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
18906 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
18907 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
18908 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
18909 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
18910 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
18911 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
18912 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
18914 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
18915 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
18916 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
18918 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
18919 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
18920 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
18921 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
18922 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
18923 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
18925 o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
18926 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
18927 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
18928 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
18929 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
18930 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
18931 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
18932 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
18933 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
18934 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18936 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
18937 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
18938 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18940 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
18941 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
18942 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
18943 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
18944 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
18946 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
18947 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
18948 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
18949 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18950 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
18951 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
18952 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
18953 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
18954 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
18955 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
18956 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
18957 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
18958 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
18959 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
18961 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18962 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
18963 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
18964 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
18965 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
18966 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
18967 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
18968 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
18969 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
18971 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
18972 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
18973 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
18974 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
18975 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
18976 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
18977 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
18979 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
18980 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
18982 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
18983 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
18984 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
18985 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
18987 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
18988 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
18989 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
18990 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18991 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
18992 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
18993 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
18994 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
18995 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
18996 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
18997 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
18998 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
18999 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
19000 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
19001 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
19002 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
19003 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
19005 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
19006 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
19007 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
19008 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
19009 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
19010 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
19011 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
19012 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
19015 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
19016 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
19017 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
19018 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
19019 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
19020 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
19021 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19022 Reported by "mr-4".
19023 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
19024 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
19025 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
19026 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
19028 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
19029 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
19030 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
19031 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
19032 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
19033 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
19034 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
19035 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
19036 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
19037 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
19038 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
19039 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
19041 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
19042 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
19043 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
19045 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
19046 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
19047 early. Fixes bug 10081.
19049 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
19050 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
19051 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
19052 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
19055 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
19056 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
19057 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
19058 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
19061 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
19062 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
19063 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
19064 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
19066 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
19067 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
19068 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
19070 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
19071 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
19072 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
19073 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
19074 versions. Found by "skruffy".
19075 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
19076 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
19077 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
19080 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
19081 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
19082 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19083 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
19084 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
19085 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
19086 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
19087 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
19088 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19089 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
19090 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
19092 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19093 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
19094 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
19095 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
19096 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
19098 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
19099 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
19100 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
19101 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
19104 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
19105 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
19106 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
19107 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
19108 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
19109 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
19110 should never have affected anyone in practice.
19112 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19113 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
19114 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
19115 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
19116 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
19117 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
19118 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
19119 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
19120 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
19121 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
19122 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
19123 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
19124 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
19125 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
19126 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
19127 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
19128 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
19129 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
19130 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
19131 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
19132 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
19133 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
19134 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
19135 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
19137 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
19138 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
19139 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
19140 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
19141 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
19142 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
19143 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
19144 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
19145 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
19147 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
19148 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
19151 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
19152 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
19154 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
19156 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
19157 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
19158 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
19159 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
19160 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
19161 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
19163 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
19164 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
19166 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
19167 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
19168 caches don't get confused.
19169 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
19170 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19171 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
19172 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
19173 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
19174 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
19175 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
19176 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
19177 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
19178 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
19179 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
19180 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
19181 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
19182 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
19183 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19184 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
19185 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
19186 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19189 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
19190 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
19191 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
19192 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
19193 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
19195 o Removed code and features:
19196 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
19197 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
19198 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
19199 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
19200 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
19201 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
19203 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
19204 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
19205 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
19206 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
19207 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
19208 part of a fix for bug 10841.
19209 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
19210 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
19211 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
19212 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
19213 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
19214 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
19216 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
19217 Resolves ticket 11070.
19218 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
19219 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
19220 the rest of bug 10841.
19221 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
19222 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
19223 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
19224 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
19226 o Test infrastructure:
19227 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
19228 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
19229 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
19230 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
19231 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
19232 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
19233 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
19234 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
19235 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
19236 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
19238 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
19239 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
19240 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
19241 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
19242 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
19243 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
19244 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
19245 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
19246 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
19247 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
19248 invoking the other functions it calls.
19251 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
19252 Patch from Dana Koch.
19253 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
19254 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
19255 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
19256 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
19258 o Distribution (systemd):
19259 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
19260 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
19261 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
19262 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
19263 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
19264 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
19265 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
19266 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
19267 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
19268 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
19269 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
19270 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
19271 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
19275 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
19276 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
19277 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
19278 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
19279 (which does affect Tor).
19281 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
19282 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
19283 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
19284 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
19286 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
19287 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
19288 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
19289 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
19292 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
19293 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
19294 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
19295 the directory authorities.
19298 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
19299 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
19300 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
19301 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
19302 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
19303 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
19304 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
19305 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
19306 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
19307 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
19308 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
19309 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19311 o Directory authority changes:
19312 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
19314 o Minor features (geoip):
19315 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19319 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
19320 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
19321 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
19322 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
19325 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
19326 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
19327 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
19328 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
19329 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
19330 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
19331 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
19332 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
19333 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
19334 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
19337 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
19338 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
19339 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
19340 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
19341 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
19342 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
19343 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
19344 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
19348 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
19349 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
19350 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
19351 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
19352 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
19353 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
19354 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
19355 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
19356 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19357 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
19358 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
19359 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
19360 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
19363 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19367 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
19368 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
19369 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
19370 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
19371 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
19372 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
19373 of RAM, and several others.
19375 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19376 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
19377 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
19378 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
19379 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
19381 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
19382 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
19383 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
19384 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
19387 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19388 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
19389 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
19390 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
19391 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
19392 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
19393 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19394 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
19395 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
19396 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
19397 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
19398 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
19399 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
19400 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
19401 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
19402 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
19403 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
19404 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
19405 Resolves ticket 11438.
19407 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
19408 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
19409 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
19410 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
19411 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
19412 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19414 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19415 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
19416 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
19418 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19419 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
19420 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19422 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19423 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
19424 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
19425 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19427 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19428 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
19429 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
19431 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19432 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
19433 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
19436 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
19437 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
19438 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
19439 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
19442 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19443 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
19444 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
19445 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
19447 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19448 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
19449 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
19450 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
19452 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19453 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
19454 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
19458 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
19459 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
19460 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
19461 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
19463 o Major features (client security):
19464 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
19465 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
19466 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
19467 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
19468 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
19469 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
19472 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
19473 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
19474 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
19475 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19477 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19478 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
19479 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
19480 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
19481 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
19484 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
19485 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
19487 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
19488 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
19489 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
19490 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
19491 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
19492 GeoLite2 Country database.
19495 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
19496 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
19497 bugfix on every released Tor.
19498 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
19499 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
19500 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
19501 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19502 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
19503 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
19504 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
19505 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
19506 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
19507 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19508 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
19509 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
19510 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19511 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
19512 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
19514 o Documentation fixes:
19515 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
19516 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19519 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
19520 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
19521 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
19522 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
19523 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
19524 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
19525 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
19527 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
19528 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
19531 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
19532 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
19533 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
19534 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
19535 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
19536 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
19537 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
19538 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
19540 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
19541 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19542 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
19543 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
19544 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
19545 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
19548 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
19549 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19550 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
19551 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
19552 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
19555 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
19556 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
19557 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
19558 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
19559 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
19560 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
19561 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
19562 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
19564 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
19565 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
19566 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
19567 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
19568 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
19569 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
19570 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
19571 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
19572 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
19573 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
19574 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
19575 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
19576 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
19577 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
19578 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
19579 security, and privacy fixes.
19581 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
19582 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
19583 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
19584 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
19585 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
19586 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
19587 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
19588 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
19589 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
19590 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
19591 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
19593 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
19594 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
19595 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
19597 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
19599 o Major features (better link encryption):
19600 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
19601 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
19602 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
19603 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
19604 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
19605 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
19608 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
19609 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
19610 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
19611 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
19613 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
19615 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
19616 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
19617 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
19618 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
19619 them to solve bug 6033.)
19621 o Major features (relay performance):
19622 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
19623 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
19624 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
19625 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
19626 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
19627 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
19628 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
19629 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
19630 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
19631 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
19632 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
19633 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
19634 Implements ticket 9574.
19636 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
19637 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
19638 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
19639 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
19640 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
19641 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
19642 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
19643 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
19644 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
19645 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
19646 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
19647 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
19648 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
19649 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
19650 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
19651 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
19653 o Major features (use of guards):
19654 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
19655 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
19656 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
19657 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
19658 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
19659 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
19660 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
19661 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
19662 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
19663 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
19664 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
19665 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
19666 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
19667 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19669 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
19670 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
19671 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
19672 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
19674 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
19675 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
19678 o Major features (geoip database):
19679 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
19680 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
19681 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
19682 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
19683 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
19684 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
19686 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
19688 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19690 o Major features (IPv6):
19691 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
19692 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
19693 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
19694 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
19695 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
19696 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
19697 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
19698 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
19699 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
19700 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
19701 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
19702 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
19703 revised in proposal 208.
19704 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
19705 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
19706 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
19708 o Major features (directory authorities):
19709 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
19710 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
19712 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
19713 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
19714 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
19715 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
19716 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
19717 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
19718 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
19719 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
19720 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
19721 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
19722 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
19724 o Major features (build and portability):
19725 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
19726 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
19727 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
19728 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
19729 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
19730 fixes by Jim Meyering.
19731 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
19732 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
19733 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
19734 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
19735 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
19736 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
19738 o Security features:
19739 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
19740 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
19741 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
19742 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
19743 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
19744 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
19745 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
19746 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
19747 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
19750 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
19751 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
19752 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
19753 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
19754 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
19755 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
19756 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
19757 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
19758 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
19759 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
19760 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
19761 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
19762 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
19763 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
19764 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
19765 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
19766 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
19767 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
19769 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
19770 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
19771 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
19772 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
19774 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
19775 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
19776 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
19778 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
19779 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
19780 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19781 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
19782 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
19783 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19784 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
19785 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
19786 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
19788 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
19789 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19791 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
19792 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
19793 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
19794 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
19795 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
19796 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
19797 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
19798 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
19799 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
19800 last time we raised it).
19801 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
19802 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
19803 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
19805 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
19806 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
19807 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
19808 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
19809 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
19810 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
19811 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
19812 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
19813 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
19814 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
19815 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
19816 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
19817 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19819 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
19820 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
19821 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
19822 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
19823 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
19824 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
19825 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
19826 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
19827 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19828 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
19829 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
19830 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
19831 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
19833 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
19834 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
19835 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
19836 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
19837 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
19838 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
19839 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
19840 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
19841 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
19843 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
19844 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
19845 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
19846 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
19847 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
19848 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
19849 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
19850 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
19851 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
19852 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
19853 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
19854 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
19855 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
19856 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
19857 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
19858 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
19859 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
19862 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
19863 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
19864 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
19865 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19867 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
19868 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
19869 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
19870 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
19872 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
19873 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
19874 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
19875 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
19876 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
19877 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
19880 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
19881 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
19882 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
19883 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
19884 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
19885 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
19886 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
19888 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
19889 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
19890 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
19891 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19893 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
19894 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
19895 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
19896 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
19897 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
19898 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
19899 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
19900 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
19902 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
19903 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
19904 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
19906 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
19907 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
19908 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19910 o Internal abstraction features:
19911 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
19912 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
19913 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
19914 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
19915 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
19916 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
19917 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
19918 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
19919 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
19920 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
19921 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
19922 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
19923 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
19924 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
19925 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
19926 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
19927 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
19929 o New build requirements:
19930 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
19931 strongly recommended.
19932 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
19933 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
19934 from a source distribution.)
19936 o Minor features (protocol):
19937 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
19938 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
19940 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
19941 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
19942 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
19943 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
19944 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
19945 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
19946 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
19947 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
19948 closes ticket 7199.
19949 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
19950 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
19952 o Minor features (security):
19953 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
19954 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
19955 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
19956 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
19957 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
19958 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
19959 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
19960 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
19961 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
19963 o Minor features (control protocol):
19964 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
19966 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
19967 Implements ticket 4971.
19968 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
19969 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
19970 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
19971 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
19972 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
19974 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
19975 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
19977 o Minor features (path selection):
19978 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
19979 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
19980 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
19981 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
19982 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
19983 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
19984 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
19985 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
19986 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
19987 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
19988 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
19989 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
19990 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
19991 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
19993 o Minor features (hidden services):
19994 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
19995 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
19996 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
19997 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
19998 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
19999 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
20000 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
20001 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
20002 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
20003 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
20004 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
20005 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
20006 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
20008 o Minor features (clients):
20009 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
20010 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
20011 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
20012 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
20013 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
20014 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
20015 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
20016 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
20017 the ORPort and the DirPort.
20019 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
20020 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
20021 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
20022 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
20023 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
20024 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
20025 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
20026 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
20027 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
20028 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
20029 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
20030 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
20031 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
20032 Implements part of proposal 222.
20034 o Minor features (bridges):
20035 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
20036 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
20037 bugs 1913 and 1992.
20038 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
20039 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
20040 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
20041 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
20042 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
20043 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
20044 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
20045 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
20046 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
20047 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
20048 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
20050 o Minor features (relays):
20051 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
20052 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
20054 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
20055 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
20056 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
20057 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
20058 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
20059 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
20060 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
20061 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
20062 connect to the wrong addresses.
20063 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
20064 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
20065 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
20066 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
20069 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
20070 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
20071 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
20072 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
20073 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
20074 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
20076 o Minor features (directory authorities):
20077 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
20078 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
20079 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
20081 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
20082 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
20083 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
20084 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
20085 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
20086 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
20088 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
20089 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
20090 Implements ticket 8151.
20091 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
20092 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
20093 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
20094 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
20096 o Minor features (path bias detection):
20097 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
20098 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
20099 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
20100 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
20101 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
20102 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
20103 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
20104 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
20105 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
20106 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
20107 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
20108 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
20109 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
20110 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
20111 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
20112 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
20113 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
20114 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
20115 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
20116 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
20117 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
20118 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
20119 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
20120 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
20121 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
20122 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
20123 detection capability loss.
20125 o Minor features (build):
20126 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
20127 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
20128 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
20130 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
20131 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
20132 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20134 o Build improvements (autotools):
20135 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
20136 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
20137 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
20139 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
20140 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
20141 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
20142 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
20144 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
20145 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
20146 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
20147 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
20148 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
20149 than to perform erroneously.
20150 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
20152 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
20153 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
20154 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
20156 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
20157 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
20158 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
20159 hard-to-track-down errors.
20160 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
20161 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
20162 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
20163 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
20164 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
20165 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
20166 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
20167 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20168 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
20169 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
20170 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
20172 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
20173 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
20174 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
20175 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
20176 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
20177 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
20178 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
20179 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
20180 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
20181 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
20183 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
20184 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
20185 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
20186 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
20187 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
20188 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
20189 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
20190 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
20191 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
20192 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
20193 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
20194 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
20195 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
20197 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
20198 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
20199 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
20200 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
20201 or at least make it more diagnosable.
20202 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
20203 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
20204 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
20205 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
20207 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
20208 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
20209 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
20210 part of ticket 6736.
20211 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
20212 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
20213 Resolves ticket 6758.
20214 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
20215 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
20216 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
20217 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20218 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
20219 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
20220 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
20222 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
20223 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
20224 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
20225 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20227 o Minor features (testing):
20228 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
20229 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
20231 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
20232 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
20233 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
20236 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
20237 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
20239 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
20240 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
20241 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
20242 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
20243 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
20244 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
20245 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
20246 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
20247 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
20248 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
20249 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
20250 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
20251 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
20252 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
20253 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
20254 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
20255 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
20257 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
20258 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
20259 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
20260 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
20261 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
20262 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
20263 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
20264 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
20265 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
20266 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
20267 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
20268 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
20269 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
20270 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
20271 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
20272 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
20273 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
20274 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20275 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
20276 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
20279 o Minor fixes (config options):
20280 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
20281 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
20282 or we just won't work.)
20283 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
20284 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
20285 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20286 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
20287 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
20288 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
20289 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
20290 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20291 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
20292 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
20293 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
20294 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20295 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
20296 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
20297 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
20298 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
20299 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
20300 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
20301 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
20303 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
20304 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
20305 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
20307 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
20308 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
20309 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
20310 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
20312 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
20313 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
20314 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
20315 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
20316 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
20317 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20318 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
20319 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
20320 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
20321 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
20322 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20323 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
20324 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
20325 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
20326 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
20327 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
20330 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
20331 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
20332 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
20333 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
20334 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
20335 Should help resolve bug 8235.
20336 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
20337 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
20338 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
20339 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
20340 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
20341 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
20342 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
20343 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
20344 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
20345 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
20346 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
20348 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
20349 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
20350 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
20351 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
20352 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
20353 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
20354 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
20355 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
20357 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
20358 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
20359 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
20360 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
20362 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
20363 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
20364 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
20365 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
20366 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
20368 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
20369 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
20370 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
20371 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20372 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
20373 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20375 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
20376 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
20377 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
20378 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
20379 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
20380 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
20381 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
20382 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
20383 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
20385 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
20386 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
20387 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
20388 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
20389 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20390 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
20391 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
20392 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
20393 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
20394 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
20395 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
20396 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
20398 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
20399 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
20400 this is CID 718634.
20401 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
20402 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
20403 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
20404 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
20406 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
20407 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
20409 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
20410 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
20411 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
20412 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
20413 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
20414 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
20415 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
20416 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20417 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
20418 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
20419 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
20420 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20421 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
20422 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
20423 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20424 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
20425 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
20426 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
20428 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
20429 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
20430 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
20431 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
20432 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20433 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
20434 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
20435 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
20436 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
20437 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
20438 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
20439 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
20440 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
20443 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
20444 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
20445 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
20446 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
20447 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
20449 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
20450 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20451 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
20452 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
20453 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
20454 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20455 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
20456 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
20457 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
20460 o Minor bugfixes (build):
20461 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
20462 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20463 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20465 o Documentation fixes:
20466 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
20467 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
20468 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
20469 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
20470 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
20471 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
20472 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
20474 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
20475 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
20476 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
20477 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
20478 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
20479 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
20480 message is logged at notice, not at info.
20481 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
20482 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
20483 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
20484 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
20485 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
20486 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
20488 o Removed features:
20489 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
20490 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
20491 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
20493 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
20494 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
20495 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
20496 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
20497 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
20498 compatibility code.
20501 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
20502 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
20504 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
20505 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
20507 o Code simplification:
20508 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
20509 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
20510 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
20511 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
20513 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
20514 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
20516 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
20517 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
20518 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
20519 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
20520 present the same extensions.)
20521 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
20523 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
20524 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
20525 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
20526 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
20528 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
20529 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
20530 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
20531 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
20534 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
20536 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
20537 and the different handshakes it supports.
20538 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
20539 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
20540 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
20541 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
20543 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
20544 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
20545 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
20546 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
20547 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
20548 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
20549 testable, and a little less fragile too.
20550 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
20551 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
20552 Implements ticket 5529.
20553 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
20554 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
20555 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
20558 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
20559 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
20560 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
20561 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
20562 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
20563 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20564 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
20565 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
20566 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
20567 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
20568 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
20569 any encoding is overkill.
20570 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
20571 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
20572 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
20573 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
20574 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
20575 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
20576 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
20577 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
20578 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
20581 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
20582 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
20583 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
20584 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
20585 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
20586 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
20587 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
20588 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
20590 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
20591 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
20592 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
20593 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
20594 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
20595 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
20596 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
20597 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
20598 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
20599 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
20600 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
20602 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
20603 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
20604 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
20605 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
20606 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
20607 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
20608 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
20609 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
20610 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
20611 describes microdescriptors.
20613 o Major features (build hardening):
20614 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
20616 o Major features (relay scaling):
20617 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
20618 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
20619 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
20620 much faster than other AES implementations.
20621 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
20622 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
20623 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
20624 Resolves ticket 4526.
20625 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
20626 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
20628 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
20629 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
20630 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
20631 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
20633 o Major features (blocking resistance):
20634 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
20636 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
20637 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
20638 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
20639 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
20640 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
20641 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
20642 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
20643 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
20644 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
20645 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
20646 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
20647 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
20648 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
20649 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
20650 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
20651 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
20652 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
20653 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
20654 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
20656 o Major features (pluggable transports):
20657 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
20658 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
20659 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
20660 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
20662 o Major features (DoS resistance):
20663 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
20664 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
20665 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
20666 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
20667 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
20668 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
20669 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
20670 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
20671 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
20672 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
20673 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
20675 o Major features (hidden services):
20676 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
20677 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
20678 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
20680 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
20681 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
20682 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
20683 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
20684 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
20685 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
20687 o Major features (IPv6):
20688 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
20689 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
20690 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
20691 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
20692 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
20694 o Major features (directory authorities):
20695 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
20696 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
20697 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
20698 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
20699 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
20700 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
20701 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
20702 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
20703 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
20704 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
20706 o Major features (performance):
20707 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
20708 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
20709 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
20710 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
20711 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
20712 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
20713 side of Proposal 174.
20714 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
20715 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
20716 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
20717 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
20718 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
20719 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
20720 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
20721 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
20722 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
20723 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
20724 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
20725 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
20727 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
20728 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
20729 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
20730 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
20731 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
20734 o Major features (relays):
20735 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
20736 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
20737 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
20738 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
20739 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
20740 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
20741 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
20743 o Major features (stream isolation):
20744 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
20745 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
20746 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
20747 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
20748 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
20749 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
20750 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
20751 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
20752 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
20753 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
20754 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
20755 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
20756 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
20757 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
20759 o Major features (bufferevents):
20760 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
20761 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
20762 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
20763 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
20764 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
20765 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
20766 zero-copy transports where available.
20767 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
20768 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
20769 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
20770 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
20771 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
20772 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
20774 o Major features (path selection):
20775 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
20776 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
20777 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
20778 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
20781 o Major features (port forwarding):
20782 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
20783 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
20784 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
20785 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
20786 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
20787 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
20789 o Major features (logging):
20790 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
20791 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
20792 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
20793 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
20794 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
20795 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
20796 Implements enhancement 1668.
20798 o Major features (other):
20799 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
20800 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
20801 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
20802 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
20803 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
20804 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
20805 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
20806 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
20807 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
20808 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
20809 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
20810 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
20811 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
20812 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
20813 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
20814 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
20815 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
20816 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
20817 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
20818 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
20820 o New directory authorities:
20821 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
20822 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
20824 o Security/privacy fixes:
20825 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
20826 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
20827 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20828 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
20829 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
20830 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
20831 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
20832 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
20833 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
20834 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
20835 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
20836 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
20837 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
20838 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
20839 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
20840 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
20841 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
20842 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
20843 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
20844 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
20845 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
20846 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
20847 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
20848 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
20849 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
20850 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
20851 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
20852 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
20853 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
20854 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
20855 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
20857 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
20858 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
20859 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
20860 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
20861 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
20862 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
20863 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
20864 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20865 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
20866 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
20867 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
20868 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
20869 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
20870 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
20873 o Major bugfixes (clients):
20874 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
20875 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
20876 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
20877 which introduced predicted ports.
20878 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
20879 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
20880 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
20881 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
20882 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
20883 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
20884 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20885 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
20886 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
20888 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
20889 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
20890 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
20891 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
20892 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
20893 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
20895 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
20896 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
20897 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
20898 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
20899 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
20900 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
20901 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
20902 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
20903 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
20904 documents entirely.
20906 o Major bugfixes (relays):
20907 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
20908 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
20909 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
20910 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
20911 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
20912 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
20913 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
20914 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
20915 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
20916 immensely in tracking this bug down.
20917 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
20918 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
20919 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
20920 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
20921 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
20922 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
20923 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
20925 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
20926 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
20927 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
20928 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
20929 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
20930 cells were introduced.
20931 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
20932 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
20933 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
20934 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
20936 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
20937 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
20938 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
20939 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
20940 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
20941 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
20942 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
20943 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
20944 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
20945 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
20946 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
20947 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
20948 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
20949 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
20950 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
20951 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
20952 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
20953 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
20954 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
20955 Fixes part of bug 3825.
20957 o Changes to default torrc file:
20958 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
20959 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
20961 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
20962 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
20963 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
20965 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
20966 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
20967 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
20969 o Minor features (directory authorities):
20970 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
20971 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
20972 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
20973 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
20974 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
20975 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
20976 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
20977 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
20978 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
20979 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
20980 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
20981 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
20982 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
20983 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
20984 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
20987 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
20988 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
20989 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
20990 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
20991 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
20992 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
20993 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
20994 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
20995 sure. Closes bug 5139.
20996 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
20997 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
20998 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
20999 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
21000 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
21002 o Minor features (IPv6):
21003 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
21004 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
21005 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
21006 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
21007 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
21008 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
21010 o Minor features (hidden services):
21011 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
21012 Required by fix for bug 3460.
21013 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
21014 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
21015 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
21016 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
21017 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
21018 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
21019 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
21020 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
21021 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
21023 o Minor features (relays):
21024 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
21025 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
21026 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
21027 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
21028 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
21029 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
21030 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
21031 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
21032 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
21033 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
21034 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
21037 o Minor features (new config options):
21038 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
21039 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
21040 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
21041 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
21042 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
21043 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
21044 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
21045 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
21046 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
21047 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
21048 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
21049 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
21051 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
21052 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
21053 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
21054 Implements issue 933.
21055 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
21056 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
21057 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
21058 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
21059 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
21060 implements ticket 3439.
21061 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
21062 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
21063 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
21064 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
21065 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
21066 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
21067 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
21068 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
21070 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
21071 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
21072 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
21073 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
21074 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
21075 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
21076 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
21077 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
21078 appending to the list.
21079 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
21080 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
21081 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
21082 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
21085 o Minor features (controller, new events):
21086 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
21087 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
21088 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
21089 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
21090 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
21091 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
21093 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
21094 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
21095 circuit-status' control-port command.
21096 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
21097 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
21098 user. Implements ticket 1692.
21099 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
21100 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
21101 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
21103 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
21104 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
21105 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
21106 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
21107 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
21108 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
21109 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
21110 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
21111 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
21113 o Minor features (controller, other):
21114 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
21115 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
21116 part of ticket 3457.
21117 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
21118 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
21119 file. Resolves bug 1101.
21120 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
21121 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
21123 o Minor features (log messages):
21124 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
21125 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
21126 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
21127 please let us know about it.
21128 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
21129 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
21130 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
21131 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
21132 Resolves ticket 2474.
21133 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
21134 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
21136 o Minor features (other):
21137 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
21138 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
21139 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
21140 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
21142 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
21143 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
21144 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
21145 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
21146 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
21147 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
21148 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
21150 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
21151 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
21152 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
21153 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
21154 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
21156 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
21157 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
21158 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
21159 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
21160 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
21161 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
21162 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
21163 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
21164 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21165 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
21166 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
21167 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
21168 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
21169 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
21170 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
21171 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
21174 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
21175 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
21176 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
21177 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
21178 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
21179 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
21180 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
21181 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
21182 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
21184 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
21185 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
21186 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
21187 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
21188 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
21189 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
21190 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21191 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
21192 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
21193 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
21195 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
21196 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
21197 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21198 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
21199 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
21200 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
21201 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
21202 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
21203 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
21205 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
21206 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
21207 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
21208 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
21209 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
21210 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
21211 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
21212 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
21213 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
21215 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
21216 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
21217 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
21218 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
21219 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
21220 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
21221 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
21223 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
21224 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
21225 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
21226 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
21228 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
21229 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
21230 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
21231 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21232 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
21233 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
21234 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
21235 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
21236 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
21237 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
21238 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
21239 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
21242 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
21243 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
21244 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21245 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
21246 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
21247 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
21249 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
21250 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
21251 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21252 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
21253 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
21254 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
21255 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
21256 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
21257 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
21258 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
21259 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
21260 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
21261 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
21262 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
21263 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
21265 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
21266 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
21267 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
21268 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
21269 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
21270 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
21272 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
21273 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
21274 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
21275 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
21276 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
21277 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
21278 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
21279 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
21280 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
21281 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
21282 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
21283 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
21284 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
21285 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
21286 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21288 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
21289 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
21290 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
21291 be disabled using the new
21292 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
21293 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21294 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
21295 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
21296 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
21297 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
21298 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
21300 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
21301 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
21302 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
21303 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21304 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
21305 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
21306 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
21308 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
21309 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
21310 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
21311 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
21312 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21313 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
21314 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
21315 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
21317 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
21318 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
21319 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
21320 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
21321 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
21322 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
21323 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
21324 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21326 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21327 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
21328 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
21329 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
21330 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
21331 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
21332 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
21333 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
21335 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
21336 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
21337 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
21338 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
21340 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
21341 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
21342 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
21344 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
21345 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
21347 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
21348 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
21349 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
21350 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
21351 case for flushing marked connections.
21352 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
21353 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
21354 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
21355 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
21356 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
21357 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
21358 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
21359 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
21360 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
21361 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21363 o Minor bugfixes (other):
21364 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
21365 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
21366 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
21367 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
21368 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
21369 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
21370 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
21371 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
21372 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
21373 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
21375 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
21376 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
21377 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
21378 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
21379 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21381 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
21382 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
21383 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
21384 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
21385 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21386 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
21387 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
21388 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
21389 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
21390 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
21391 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
21392 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
21393 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
21394 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
21395 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
21396 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
21398 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
21399 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
21400 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
21401 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
21402 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
21403 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
21404 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21405 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
21406 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21407 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
21408 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
21409 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
21410 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
21411 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
21412 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
21413 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
21414 Implements ticket 3264.
21415 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
21417 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
21418 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
21419 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
21420 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
21421 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
21422 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
21424 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
21425 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
21426 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
21427 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
21428 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
21429 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
21430 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
21431 them from the other auths.
21432 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
21433 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
21434 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
21435 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21436 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
21437 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
21438 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
21439 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
21443 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
21444 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
21445 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
21447 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
21448 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
21449 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
21450 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
21451 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
21452 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
21453 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
21454 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
21456 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
21457 ./src/test/bench binary.
21458 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
21459 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
21460 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
21461 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
21464 o Build improvements:
21465 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
21466 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
21467 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
21468 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
21469 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
21470 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
21471 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
21472 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
21473 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
21474 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
21475 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
21476 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
21477 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
21478 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
21479 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
21480 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
21481 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
21482 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
21483 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
21484 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
21485 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
21487 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
21489 o Build requirements:
21490 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
21491 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
21492 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
21493 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
21494 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
21495 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
21496 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
21497 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
21498 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
21499 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
21500 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
21501 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
21502 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
21504 o Build fixes (compile/link):
21505 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
21506 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
21508 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
21509 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
21510 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
21511 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
21512 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
21513 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
21514 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21515 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
21516 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
21518 o Build fixes (other):
21519 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
21520 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
21522 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
21523 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
21524 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
21525 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21526 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
21527 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
21528 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
21529 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
21531 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
21532 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
21535 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
21536 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
21537 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
21538 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
21539 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
21540 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
21541 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
21542 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
21544 o Code refactoring (safety):
21545 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
21546 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
21547 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
21548 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
21549 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
21550 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
21551 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
21552 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
21553 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
21554 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
21555 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
21556 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
21558 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
21559 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
21560 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
21561 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
21562 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
21563 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
21564 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
21565 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
21566 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
21567 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
21568 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
21569 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
21570 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
21571 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
21572 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
21573 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
21574 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
21575 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
21577 o Code refactoring (separate):
21578 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
21579 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
21580 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
21582 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
21583 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
21586 o Code refactoring (name changes):
21587 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
21588 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
21589 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
21590 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
21591 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
21592 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
21593 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
21595 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
21596 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
21597 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
21598 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
21599 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
21600 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
21601 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
21602 invalid value, rather than just -1.
21603 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
21604 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
21605 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
21607 o Code refactoring (other):
21608 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
21609 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
21611 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
21612 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
21613 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
21614 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
21615 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
21616 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
21617 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
21618 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
21619 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
21620 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
21621 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
21622 our library structure used to force them to link it.
21624 o Removed features and files:
21625 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
21626 it would be a bad idea to start.
21627 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
21629 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
21630 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
21631 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
21632 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
21633 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
21634 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
21635 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
21636 are no longer in use as relays.
21637 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
21638 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
21639 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
21640 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
21641 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
21642 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
21646 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
21647 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
21648 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
21650 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
21651 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
21653 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
21654 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
21655 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
21657 o Documentation fixes:
21658 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
21659 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
21660 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
21661 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
21662 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
21663 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
21664 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
21665 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
21668 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
21669 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
21673 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
21674 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
21675 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21676 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
21677 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
21678 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
21679 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
21683 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
21684 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
21685 attack that could in theory leak path information.
21688 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
21689 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
21690 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21691 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
21692 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
21693 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
21694 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
21695 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
21696 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
21697 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
21698 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
21699 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
21700 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
21701 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
21704 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
21705 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
21706 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
21710 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
21711 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
21712 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
21713 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
21714 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
21715 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
21716 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21717 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
21718 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
21719 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
21720 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21723 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
21724 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
21727 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
21728 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
21731 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
21732 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
21733 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
21734 and fixes several crash bugs.
21736 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
21737 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
21738 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
21739 those packages and upgrade anyway.
21741 o Directory authority changes:
21742 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
21743 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
21747 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
21748 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
21749 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
21750 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
21751 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
21752 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
21753 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
21754 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
21755 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
21756 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
21757 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
21758 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
21759 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
21760 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
21761 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
21762 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
21763 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
21764 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
21765 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
21766 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
21767 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
21768 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
21769 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
21770 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
21771 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
21772 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
21773 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
21776 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
21777 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21778 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
21779 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
21781 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
21782 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
21784 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
21785 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
21786 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
21787 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
21788 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
21789 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
21790 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
21791 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
21794 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
21795 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
21796 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
21797 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
21798 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
21799 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
21800 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
21801 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
21802 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
21803 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
21804 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
21805 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
21806 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
21807 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
21808 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
21809 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
21810 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
21811 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
21812 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
21813 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
21814 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
21815 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
21816 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
21817 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
21818 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
21819 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
21820 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
21821 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
21822 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
21823 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
21824 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
21825 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
21826 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
21827 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
21828 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21829 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
21830 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
21831 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
21832 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
21833 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21834 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
21835 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21836 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
21837 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
21838 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
21839 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
21841 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
21842 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
21843 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
21844 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
21845 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
21846 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
21847 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
21848 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
21849 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
21850 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
21851 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21852 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
21853 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21854 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
21855 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
21858 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
21859 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
21860 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
21861 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
21863 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21866 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
21867 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
21868 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
21869 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
21870 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
21871 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
21872 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
21875 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
21876 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
21877 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
21879 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
21880 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
21881 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
21882 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
21883 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
21884 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
21885 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
21886 (which Tor does not do by default).
21888 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
21889 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
21890 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
21891 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
21892 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
21894 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
21895 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
21896 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
21899 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
21900 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
21901 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
21902 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
21903 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
21905 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
21906 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
21909 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
21910 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
21911 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
21912 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
21913 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
21914 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
21915 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
21916 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
21918 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
21919 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
21920 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
21921 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
21922 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
21923 close based on processing a cell on it.
21924 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
21925 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
21926 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
21927 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21928 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
21929 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
21930 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
21931 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
21932 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
21933 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
21934 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
21935 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
21936 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
21937 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
21938 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
21941 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
21942 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
21943 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
21944 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
21945 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
21946 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
21947 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
21949 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
21950 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
21951 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
21952 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
21953 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
21954 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
21955 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
21956 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
21957 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21958 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
21959 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
21960 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
21961 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
21962 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
21963 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
21964 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
21965 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
21966 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
21967 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21968 Reported by "troll_un".
21969 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
21970 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21971 Reported by "troll_un".
21972 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
21973 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
21974 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
21975 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
21978 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
21979 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
21980 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
21981 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
21982 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
21983 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
21984 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
21985 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
21986 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
21987 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
21988 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21990 o Packaging changes:
21991 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
21992 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
21995 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
21996 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
21997 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
21998 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
21999 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
22001 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
22002 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
22004 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22005 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
22006 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
22007 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
22008 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22009 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
22010 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
22011 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
22012 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
22015 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22018 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
22019 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
22020 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
22022 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
22023 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
22024 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
22025 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
22026 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
22027 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
22028 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
22029 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
22030 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
22031 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
22032 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
22033 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
22034 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
22036 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
22037 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
22038 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
22039 currently connected to them.
22041 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
22042 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
22043 remain; see for example proposal 188.
22045 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
22046 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
22047 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
22048 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
22049 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
22050 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
22051 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
22052 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
22053 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
22054 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
22055 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
22056 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
22057 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
22058 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
22059 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
22060 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
22061 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
22062 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
22065 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
22066 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
22067 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
22068 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
22069 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
22070 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
22071 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
22072 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
22073 when bridges were introduced.
22074 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
22075 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
22076 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
22077 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22078 Found by "frosty_un".
22081 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
22082 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
22084 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
22085 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
22086 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
22087 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
22088 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
22089 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
22090 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
22093 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
22094 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
22095 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
22096 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
22097 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
22098 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
22099 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
22100 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
22101 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
22102 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
22103 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
22104 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
22105 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
22106 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
22107 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
22108 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
22109 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
22110 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
22112 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
22113 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
22114 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
22115 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22116 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
22117 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
22118 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
22119 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
22120 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
22121 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
22122 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
22123 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
22126 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
22127 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
22128 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
22129 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22132 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
22133 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
22134 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
22135 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
22136 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
22138 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22139 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
22140 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
22141 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
22142 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
22143 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
22144 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
22145 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
22146 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
22147 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22149 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22150 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
22151 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
22152 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
22153 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
22154 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
22155 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
22156 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
22157 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
22158 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
22159 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
22160 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
22161 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
22162 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
22163 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22164 Found by "frosty_un".
22165 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
22166 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
22167 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
22168 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
22169 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
22170 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
22171 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
22172 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
22173 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
22174 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
22175 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
22176 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
22177 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22178 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
22179 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
22180 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
22181 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
22182 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
22183 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
22185 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22186 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
22187 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
22188 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
22189 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
22190 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
22191 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
22192 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
22194 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
22195 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
22196 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
22197 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
22198 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
22199 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
22200 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
22201 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
22202 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
22203 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
22204 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
22205 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
22207 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
22208 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22209 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
22210 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22211 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
22212 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22213 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
22214 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
22215 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
22217 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
22219 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
22220 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
22221 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
22222 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22223 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
22224 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
22225 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
22226 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22228 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
22229 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
22230 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
22231 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
22232 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
22234 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22235 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
22236 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
22237 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
22238 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22241 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
22242 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
22243 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
22244 reachable from Iran again.
22247 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
22248 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
22249 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22251 o Minor features (security):
22252 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
22253 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
22254 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
22255 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
22256 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
22257 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
22258 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
22259 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
22260 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
22261 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
22264 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
22265 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
22266 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
22267 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
22268 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
22269 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
22270 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
22271 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
22272 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22274 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
22275 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
22276 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
22277 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
22278 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
22279 raised by bug 3898.
22280 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
22281 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
22282 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
22283 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
22284 fixes part of bug 2442.
22285 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
22286 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
22287 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
22289 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
22290 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
22291 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
22292 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
22293 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22296 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
22297 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
22298 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
22299 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
22300 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
22301 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
22304 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
22305 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
22306 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
22307 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
22308 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
22309 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
22310 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
22311 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
22312 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
22313 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
22315 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
22316 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
22317 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
22318 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
22319 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
22320 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
22321 many many other features and bugfixes.
22323 o Major features (client performance):
22324 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
22325 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
22326 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
22327 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
22328 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
22329 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
22331 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
22332 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
22333 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
22334 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
22335 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
22336 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
22337 the first implementation of this feature.
22339 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
22340 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
22341 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
22342 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
22343 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
22344 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
22345 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
22346 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
22347 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
22348 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
22349 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
22350 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
22351 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
22352 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
22353 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
22354 file. Implements ticket 1296.
22356 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
22357 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
22358 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
22359 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
22360 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
22361 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
22362 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
22363 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
22364 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
22365 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
22366 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
22367 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
22368 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
22369 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
22370 they first get the Guard flag.
22371 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
22372 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
22373 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
22374 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
22375 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
22376 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
22377 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
22378 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
22380 o Major features (relays control their load better):
22381 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
22382 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
22383 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
22384 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
22385 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
22386 based on a variant of proposal 163.
22387 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
22388 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
22389 but never per-conn write limits.
22390 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
22391 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
22392 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
22393 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
22395 o Major features (controllers):
22396 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
22397 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
22398 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
22399 contributions to the network.
22400 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
22401 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
22402 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
22404 o Major features (directory authorities):
22405 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
22406 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
22407 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
22409 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
22410 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
22411 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
22412 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
22413 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
22414 download consensus + microdescriptors".
22415 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
22416 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
22417 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
22418 hash algorithm in the future.
22419 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
22420 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
22421 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
22423 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
22424 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
22425 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
22426 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
22427 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
22428 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
22429 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
22430 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
22431 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
22432 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
22433 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
22434 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
22435 connections to directory servers.
22436 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
22437 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
22438 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
22439 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
22440 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
22441 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
22442 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
22443 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
22444 information, or fetch directory information.
22445 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
22446 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
22447 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
22448 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
22449 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
22451 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
22452 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
22453 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
22454 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
22455 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
22456 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
22457 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
22458 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
22459 the network changes.
22460 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
22461 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
22463 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
22464 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
22465 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
22466 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
22467 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
22468 unless you really want your Tor to break.
22469 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
22470 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
22471 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
22472 - When StrictNodes is 1:
22473 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
22474 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
22475 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
22476 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
22477 reachability self-tests.
22478 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
22479 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
22480 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
22481 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
22482 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
22484 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
22485 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22486 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
22488 o Major features (misc):
22489 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
22490 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
22491 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
22492 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
22493 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
22494 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
22495 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
22496 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
22497 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
22498 part of ticket 3076.
22499 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
22500 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
22501 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
22503 o Code security improvements:
22504 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
22505 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
22506 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
22507 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
22508 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
22509 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
22510 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
22511 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
22512 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
22513 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
22514 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
22515 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
22516 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
22517 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
22518 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
22519 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
22520 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
22521 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
22522 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
22523 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
22524 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
22525 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
22526 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
22527 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
22528 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
22529 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
22530 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
22531 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
22533 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
22534 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
22535 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
22536 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
22537 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
22538 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
22539 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
22540 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
22541 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
22542 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
22543 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
22544 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
22545 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
22547 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
22548 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
22549 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
22551 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
22552 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
22554 o Major bugfixes (stability):
22555 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
22556 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
22557 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22558 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
22559 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22560 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
22561 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
22562 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
22563 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
22564 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
22565 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
22566 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
22567 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
22568 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
22569 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
22570 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
22572 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
22573 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
22574 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
22576 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
22577 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
22578 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
22579 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
22580 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
22581 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
22582 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
22583 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
22584 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
22585 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
22586 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
22587 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
22588 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
22589 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
22590 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
22591 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
22592 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
22593 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
22594 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22596 o Privacy fixes (clients):
22597 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
22598 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
22599 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
22600 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
22601 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
22602 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
22603 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
22604 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
22605 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
22607 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
22608 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
22609 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
22610 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
22611 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
22612 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
22613 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
22614 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
22615 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
22616 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
22618 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
22619 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
22620 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
22621 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
22622 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
22623 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
22624 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22625 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
22626 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
22627 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
22628 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
22629 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
22630 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
22632 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
22633 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
22634 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
22635 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
22636 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
22637 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
22638 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
22639 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
22640 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
22641 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
22643 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
22644 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
22645 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
22646 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
22647 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
22648 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
22649 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
22651 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
22652 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
22653 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
22654 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
22655 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
22656 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
22657 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
22658 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
22659 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
22660 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
22661 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
22662 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
22663 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
22664 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
22665 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
22667 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
22668 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
22669 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
22670 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
22671 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
22672 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
22673 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
22675 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
22676 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
22677 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
22678 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
22679 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
22680 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
22681 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
22682 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
22684 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
22685 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
22686 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
22687 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
22688 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
22689 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
22690 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
22691 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
22692 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
22693 the longest-lived bug prize.
22694 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
22695 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
22696 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
22697 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
22698 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
22699 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
22700 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
22701 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
22702 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
22703 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
22705 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
22706 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
22707 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
22708 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
22709 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
22710 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
22713 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
22714 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
22715 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
22716 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
22717 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
22718 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
22719 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
22720 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
22721 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
22722 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
22723 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
22724 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22725 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
22726 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
22727 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
22728 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
22729 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
22730 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
22731 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
22732 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
22733 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
22734 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
22735 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
22736 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
22737 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
22738 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
22740 o Major bugfixes (misc):
22741 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
22742 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
22743 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22744 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
22745 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
22746 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
22747 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
22748 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
22750 o Minor features (relays):
22751 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
22752 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
22753 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
22754 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
22755 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
22756 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
22757 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
22758 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
22760 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
22761 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
22762 Resolves ticket 3252.
22763 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
22764 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
22766 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
22767 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
22768 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
22769 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
22770 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
22772 o Minor features (network statistics):
22773 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
22774 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
22775 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
22776 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
22777 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
22778 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
22779 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
22780 measure download times.
22781 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
22782 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
22784 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
22785 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
22786 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
22787 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
22789 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
22790 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
22791 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
22793 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
22794 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
22795 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
22796 Implements ticket 2432.
22797 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
22798 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
22799 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
22800 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
22801 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
22802 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
22803 Implements enhancement 1790.
22804 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
22805 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
22807 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
22808 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
22809 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
22810 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
22811 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
22812 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
22813 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
22815 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22817 o Minor features (clients):
22818 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
22819 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
22820 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
22821 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
22823 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
22824 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
22825 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
22826 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
22827 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
22828 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
22829 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
22830 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
22832 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
22833 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
22834 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
22835 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
22836 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
22837 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
22838 SSL handshake issues.
22840 o Minor features (directory authorities):
22841 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
22842 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
22843 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
22844 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
22845 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
22846 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
22847 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
22848 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
22849 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
22850 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
22851 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
22852 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
22853 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
22854 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
22855 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
22856 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
22857 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
22858 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
22859 hour of their uptime.
22860 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
22861 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
22862 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
22863 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
22865 o Minor features (hidden services):
22866 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
22867 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
22868 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
22869 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
22870 Required by fix for bug 3000.
22871 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
22872 by fix for bug 3000.
22873 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
22874 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
22875 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
22876 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
22877 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
22879 o Minor features (controller interface):
22880 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
22881 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
22882 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
22883 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
22884 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
22885 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
22886 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
22887 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
22888 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
22889 over our stored history.
22890 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
22891 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
22892 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
22894 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
22895 to the circuit build timeout.
22896 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
22897 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
22898 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
22900 o Minor features (controller protocol):
22901 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
22902 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
22903 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
22905 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
22906 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
22907 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
22908 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
22909 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
22910 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
22911 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
22912 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
22913 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
22914 arguments we do not recognize.
22916 o Minor features (more useful logging):
22917 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
22918 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
22919 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
22920 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
22921 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
22922 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
22923 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
22924 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
22925 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
22926 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
22927 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
22928 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
22929 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
22930 got suppressed since the last warning.
22931 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
22932 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
22933 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
22934 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
22935 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
22936 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
22937 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
22939 o Minor features (log domains):
22940 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
22941 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
22942 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
22944 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
22945 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
22947 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
22948 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
22949 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
22951 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
22952 during the TLS handshake.
22954 o Minor features (build process):
22955 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
22956 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
22957 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
22959 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
22960 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
22961 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
22963 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
22964 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
22965 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
22966 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
22967 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
22968 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
22970 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
22971 source files Tor was built with.
22972 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
22973 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
22974 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
22975 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
22976 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
22977 speeds up the build considerably.
22979 o Minor features (options / torrc):
22980 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
22981 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
22982 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
22983 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
22984 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
22985 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
22986 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
22987 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
22988 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
22989 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
22990 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
22991 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
22992 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
22993 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
22994 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
22995 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
22996 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
22997 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
22998 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
22999 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
23000 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
23001 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
23002 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
23003 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
23004 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
23005 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
23006 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
23008 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
23009 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
23010 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
23013 o Minor features (unit tests):
23014 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
23015 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
23016 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
23017 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
23018 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
23019 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
23021 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
23022 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
23025 o Minor features (misc):
23026 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
23027 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
23028 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
23029 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
23031 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
23032 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
23033 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
23034 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
23035 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
23037 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
23038 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
23039 open() without checking it.
23040 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
23041 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
23042 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
23043 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
23045 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
23046 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
23047 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
23048 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
23049 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
23050 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
23051 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
23052 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
23053 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
23054 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
23055 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
23056 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
23057 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
23058 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
23059 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
23060 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
23061 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
23062 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
23063 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
23064 based on the time during which we were active and not in
23065 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
23066 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
23067 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
23068 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
23069 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
23070 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
23071 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
23072 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
23074 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
23075 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
23076 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
23077 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
23079 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
23080 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
23081 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
23082 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
23083 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
23085 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
23086 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
23087 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23088 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
23089 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
23090 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
23091 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
23092 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
23093 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
23094 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
23095 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
23096 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
23097 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
23099 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
23100 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
23101 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
23102 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
23103 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
23104 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
23105 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
23106 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
23107 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
23108 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
23109 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
23110 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
23111 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
23112 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
23113 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
23114 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
23115 two-hop circuits are actually created.
23116 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
23117 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
23118 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
23119 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
23121 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
23122 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
23123 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
23124 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
23125 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
23126 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
23127 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
23128 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
23129 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
23131 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
23132 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
23133 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
23134 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
23135 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
23136 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
23137 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
23138 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
23139 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
23140 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
23141 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
23142 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
23143 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
23146 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
23147 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
23148 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
23149 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
23150 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23151 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
23152 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
23153 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
23154 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
23155 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
23156 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
23158 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
23159 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
23161 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
23162 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
23163 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
23164 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
23165 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23166 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
23167 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
23168 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
23170 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
23171 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
23172 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
23173 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23174 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
23175 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
23176 discovered by katmagic.
23177 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
23178 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
23180 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
23181 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
23182 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
23183 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
23184 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
23185 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
23186 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
23187 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
23188 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
23190 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
23191 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
23193 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
23194 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
23196 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
23197 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
23199 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
23200 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
23201 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
23202 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
23203 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
23204 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
23205 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
23206 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
23207 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
23208 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
23209 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
23210 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
23211 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
23212 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
23213 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
23215 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
23216 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
23217 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
23218 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
23219 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
23220 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
23221 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
23222 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
23223 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
23225 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
23226 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
23227 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
23229 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
23230 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
23231 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
23232 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
23234 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
23235 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
23236 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
23237 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
23238 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
23239 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
23240 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
23242 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
23243 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
23244 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
23245 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
23246 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
23247 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
23249 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
23250 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
23251 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
23252 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
23253 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
23254 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
23255 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
23256 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23257 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
23259 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
23260 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
23261 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23262 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
23263 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23264 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
23265 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
23266 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
23267 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
23268 control-spec.txt said they were.
23270 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
23271 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
23272 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
23274 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
23275 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23276 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
23277 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
23278 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
23280 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
23281 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
23283 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
23284 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
23285 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
23286 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
23287 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
23288 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
23289 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
23291 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
23292 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
23293 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
23294 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23295 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
23296 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
23297 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
23298 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
23301 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
23302 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
23303 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
23304 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
23305 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
23306 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
23307 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
23308 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
23309 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
23310 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
23311 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
23312 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23313 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
23314 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
23315 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
23317 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
23318 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
23319 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
23320 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
23321 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
23322 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23323 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
23325 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
23326 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
23329 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
23330 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
23331 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
23332 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
23333 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23334 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
23335 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
23336 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
23337 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
23338 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
23339 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
23340 fixes part of bug 3407.
23341 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
23342 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
23343 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
23344 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
23345 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
23346 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
23347 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
23348 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
23349 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
23350 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
23352 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
23353 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
23354 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
23355 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
23356 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
23357 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
23358 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
23359 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23360 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
23361 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
23362 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
23363 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23364 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
23365 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
23366 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
23367 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
23368 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
23370 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
23371 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
23372 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
23373 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
23374 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
23375 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
23376 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
23377 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
23378 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
23379 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
23380 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
23381 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
23383 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
23384 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
23385 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
23386 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
23387 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
23389 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
23390 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
23391 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
23392 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
23394 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
23395 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
23396 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
23397 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
23398 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
23399 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
23400 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
23401 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
23402 structures and defines in or.h for now.
23403 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
23405 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
23406 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
23407 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
23408 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
23409 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
23410 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
23411 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
23412 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
23414 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
23415 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
23416 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
23418 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
23419 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
23420 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
23421 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
23422 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
23423 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
23424 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
23425 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
23426 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
23427 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
23429 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
23431 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
23432 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
23433 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
23434 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
23435 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
23436 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
23437 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
23438 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
23439 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
23440 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
23442 o Documentation changes:
23443 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
23444 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
23446 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
23447 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
23448 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
23449 what should go in a patch.
23450 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
23452 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
23453 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
23454 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
23455 projects directory in svn.
23457 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
23458 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
23459 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
23460 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
23461 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
23462 hidden service usage.
23463 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
23464 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
23465 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
23466 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
23467 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
23470 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
23471 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
23472 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
23473 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
23474 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
23477 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
23478 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
23479 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
23480 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
23481 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
23482 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
23483 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
23484 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
23485 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
23486 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
23487 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
23488 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
23489 via application-level web tricks.
23490 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
23491 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
23492 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
23493 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
23494 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
23495 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
23496 send a body too). Since only server versions before
23497 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
23498 keep the workaround in place.
23499 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
23500 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
23501 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
23502 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
23503 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
23504 want to do it differently.
23505 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
23506 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
23507 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
23510 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
23511 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
23512 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
23513 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
23514 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
23515 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
23518 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
23519 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
23520 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
23521 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
23522 the rest of bug 1074.
23523 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
23524 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23525 Found by "piebeer".
23526 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
23527 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
23528 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
23529 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
23530 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
23531 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
23532 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23535 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
23537 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23540 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
23541 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
23542 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
23543 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
23544 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
23545 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
23546 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
23547 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
23548 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
23549 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
23550 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23552 o Packaging changes:
23553 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
23554 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
23555 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
23556 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
23557 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
23558 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
23561 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
23562 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
23563 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
23564 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
23565 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
23567 o Major bugfixes (security):
23568 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
23569 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
23570 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
23572 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
23573 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
23574 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
23575 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
23576 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
23577 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
23578 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
23579 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
23581 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23582 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
23583 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
23584 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
23585 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
23586 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
23587 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
23588 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
23589 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
23590 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
23591 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
23592 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
23593 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
23594 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
23597 o Minor bugfixes (other):
23598 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
23599 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
23600 bug reported by doorss.
23601 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
23602 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
23603 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23604 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
23605 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
23607 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
23608 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
23609 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
23610 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
23611 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
23614 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23615 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
23618 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
23619 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
23620 Automake 1.7 or later.
23621 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
23622 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
23623 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
23624 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
23627 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
23628 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
23629 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
23630 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
23634 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
23635 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
23636 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
23637 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
23639 o Directory authority changes:
23640 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
23643 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23646 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
23647 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
23648 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
23649 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
23650 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
23653 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
23654 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
23655 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
23656 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
23657 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23658 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
23659 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
23660 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
23661 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
23662 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
23663 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
23664 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
23665 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
23666 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
23667 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
23668 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
23669 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
23670 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
23671 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
23672 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
23673 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
23674 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
23675 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
23678 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
23679 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
23680 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
23681 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
23683 o New directory authorities:
23684 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
23688 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
23689 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
23690 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
23692 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
23693 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
23694 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
23695 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
23696 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
23697 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
23699 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
23700 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
23701 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
23704 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
23705 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
23706 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
23707 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
23708 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
23709 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
23710 Patch from mingw-san.
23713 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
23714 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
23715 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
23716 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
23717 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
23718 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
23721 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
23722 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
23723 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
23724 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
23725 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
23727 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
23728 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
23731 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
23732 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
23733 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
23734 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
23735 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
23736 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
23737 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
23738 their directory fetches over TLS).
23739 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
23740 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
23741 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
23742 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
23743 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
23744 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
23745 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
23746 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
23749 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
23750 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
23754 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
23755 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23756 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
23757 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
23758 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
23759 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
23760 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23763 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
23764 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
23765 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
23766 several minor potential security bugs.
23769 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
23770 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
23771 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
23772 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
23773 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
23774 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
23775 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
23778 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
23779 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
23781 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
23782 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
23783 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
23784 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
23787 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
23788 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
23792 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
23793 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
23794 customized patches to run/build.
23797 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
23798 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
23799 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
23802 o Major bugfixes (performance):
23803 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
23804 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
23805 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
23806 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
23807 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
23808 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
23809 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
23812 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
23813 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
23814 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
23815 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
23816 libraries in a security patch.
23817 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
23818 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
23819 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
23820 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
23824 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
23825 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
23828 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
23829 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
23830 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
23831 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
23832 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
23835 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
23836 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
23837 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
23838 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
23839 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
23841 o Directory authority changes:
23842 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
23846 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
23847 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
23848 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23851 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
23852 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
23853 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
23854 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
23855 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
23858 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
23859 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
23860 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
23861 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
23862 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
23863 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
23864 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
23867 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
23868 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
23869 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23870 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
23871 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
23872 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
23874 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
23875 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
23878 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
23879 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
23880 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
23881 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
23883 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
23884 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
23886 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
23887 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
23888 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
23889 in the Vidalia Settings window.
23892 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
23893 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
23894 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
23895 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
23896 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
23898 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
23899 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
23901 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
23902 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
23903 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
23906 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
23907 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
23908 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
23910 o New directory authorities:
23911 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
23913 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
23916 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
23917 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
23919 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
23920 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
23921 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
23922 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
23923 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
23924 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
23925 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23926 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
23927 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
23928 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
23929 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
23930 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
23931 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
23932 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
23933 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
23934 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
23935 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
23937 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
23938 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
23939 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
23941 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
23942 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
23946 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
23947 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
23948 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
23949 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
23950 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
23953 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
23954 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
23958 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
23959 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
23960 part of patch provided by "optimist".
23963 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
23964 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
23965 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
23966 and confuse fewer users.
23969 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
23970 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
23971 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
23972 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
23973 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
23974 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
23975 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
23978 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
23979 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
23980 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
23981 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
23982 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
23983 other features and bug fixes.
23985 o Major features (clients):
23986 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
23987 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
23988 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
23989 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
23991 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
23992 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
23993 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
23994 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
23995 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
23996 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
23997 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
23998 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
23999 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
24000 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
24002 o Major features (relays):
24003 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
24004 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
24005 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
24006 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
24007 data. Found by Jacob.
24008 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
24009 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
24010 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
24011 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
24013 o Major features (hidden services):
24014 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
24015 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
24016 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
24017 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
24018 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
24019 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
24020 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
24021 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
24022 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
24023 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
24024 lookups more reliable.
24026 o Major features (path selection):
24027 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
24028 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
24029 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
24030 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
24031 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
24033 o Major features (misc):
24034 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
24035 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
24037 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
24038 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
24039 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
24040 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
24041 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
24042 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
24044 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
24045 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
24046 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
24047 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
24049 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
24052 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
24053 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
24054 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
24055 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
24056 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
24057 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
24058 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
24059 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
24060 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
24061 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
24062 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
24063 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
24064 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
24065 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
24066 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
24067 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
24068 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
24069 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
24070 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
24071 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
24072 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24073 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
24074 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
24075 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
24076 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
24077 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
24078 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
24079 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
24080 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
24081 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
24082 Implements proposal 148.
24084 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24085 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
24086 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
24087 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
24088 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
24089 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
24091 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
24092 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
24093 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
24094 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
24095 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
24096 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24097 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
24098 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
24099 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
24101 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
24102 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
24103 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
24104 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
24106 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
24107 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
24108 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
24109 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
24110 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
24111 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
24112 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
24113 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
24114 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24116 o Major bugfixes (clients):
24117 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
24118 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
24119 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
24120 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
24121 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
24122 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
24123 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
24124 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
24125 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
24126 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
24127 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
24128 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
24129 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
24130 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
24131 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
24134 o Major bugfixes (relays):
24135 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
24136 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
24137 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
24138 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
24139 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
24140 patch by Sebastian.
24141 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
24142 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
24143 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
24144 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
24145 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
24146 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
24147 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
24148 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
24149 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
24150 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
24153 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
24154 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
24155 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
24156 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
24157 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
24158 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
24160 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
24161 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
24162 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
24163 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
24164 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
24165 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
24166 on a typical directory cache.
24167 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
24168 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
24169 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
24170 and may reduce fragmentation.
24172 o New/changed config options:
24173 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
24174 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
24175 Suggested by Lucky Green.
24176 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
24177 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
24178 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
24179 locked down these days.
24180 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
24181 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
24182 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
24183 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
24184 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
24185 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
24186 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
24187 output to messages of warning and error severity.
24188 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
24189 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
24190 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
24191 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
24192 directory requests we should expect to see.
24193 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
24194 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
24195 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
24196 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
24197 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
24198 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
24199 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
24201 o Minor features (relays):
24202 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
24203 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
24204 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
24205 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
24206 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
24208 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
24209 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
24210 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
24211 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
24212 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
24213 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
24214 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
24215 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
24216 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
24217 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
24218 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
24219 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
24220 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
24222 o Minor features (directory authorities):
24223 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
24224 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
24225 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
24226 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
24227 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
24228 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
24229 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
24230 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
24231 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
24232 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
24234 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
24235 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
24236 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
24237 fingerprints with or without space.
24239 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
24240 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
24241 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
24242 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
24243 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
24244 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
24245 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
24246 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
24247 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
24249 o Minor features (bridges):
24250 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
24251 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
24253 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
24254 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
24257 o Minor features (hidden services):
24258 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
24259 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
24260 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
24261 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
24262 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
24263 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
24264 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
24265 faster after restart.
24266 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
24267 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
24269 o Minor features (build and packaging):
24270 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
24272 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
24273 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
24275 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
24276 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
24277 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
24278 entirely. Patch from coderman.
24279 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
24280 are built without support for deprecated functions.
24281 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
24282 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
24283 system to do it for us.
24284 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
24285 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
24286 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
24287 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
24288 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
24289 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
24290 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
24291 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
24292 the letter of C99's alias rules.
24293 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
24294 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
24295 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
24296 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
24297 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
24298 with log.h on Android.
24299 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
24300 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
24302 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
24303 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
24304 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
24305 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
24307 o Minor features (controllers):
24308 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
24309 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
24310 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
24311 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
24312 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
24313 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
24314 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
24315 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
24316 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
24317 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
24319 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
24320 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
24321 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
24322 been fetched and validated.
24323 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
24324 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
24326 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
24328 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
24329 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
24330 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
24331 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
24332 partway through and wants to catch up.
24333 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
24335 o Minor features (tools):
24336 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
24337 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
24338 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
24339 people find host:port too confusing.
24340 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
24341 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
24343 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
24344 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
24345 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
24346 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
24347 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
24348 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
24349 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
24350 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
24351 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
24353 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
24354 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
24355 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
24356 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
24357 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
24359 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
24360 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
24361 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
24363 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
24364 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24365 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
24366 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
24367 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
24368 have already been marked for close.
24369 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
24370 memory performance during directory parsing.
24372 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
24373 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
24374 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
24375 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
24376 done that for a long time.
24377 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
24378 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
24379 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
24380 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
24381 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
24382 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
24383 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
24384 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
24385 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
24386 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
24387 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
24388 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
24389 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
24390 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
24391 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
24392 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
24393 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
24394 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
24395 because of a pending download.
24396 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
24397 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
24398 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
24399 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
24400 bug 820, reported by seeess.
24402 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
24403 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
24404 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
24405 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
24406 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
24407 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
24408 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
24409 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
24410 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
24412 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
24413 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
24415 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
24416 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
24417 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
24418 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
24419 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
24420 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
24421 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
24422 of 0. Suggested by lark.
24423 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
24424 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
24425 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
24426 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
24427 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
24429 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
24430 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
24431 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
24433 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
24434 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
24436 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
24437 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
24438 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
24439 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
24440 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
24441 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
24442 rest, and don't automatically fail.
24443 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
24444 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
24445 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
24446 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
24447 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
24448 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
24450 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
24451 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
24452 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
24453 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
24454 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
24455 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
24456 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
24458 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
24459 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24461 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
24462 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
24463 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
24464 Workaround for bug 1024.
24465 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
24466 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
24467 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
24468 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
24469 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
24470 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
24471 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
24472 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
24475 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
24476 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
24479 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
24480 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
24481 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
24482 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
24483 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
24484 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
24485 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
24487 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
24488 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
24489 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
24490 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
24491 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
24492 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
24493 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
24494 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
24497 o Deprecated and removed features:
24498 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
24499 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
24500 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
24502 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
24504 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
24505 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
24506 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
24507 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
24508 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
24509 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
24510 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
24511 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
24512 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
24513 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
24514 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
24515 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
24516 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
24517 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
24520 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24521 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
24522 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
24523 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
24524 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
24526 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
24527 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
24528 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
24529 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
24530 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
24531 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
24532 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
24533 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
24534 actual mistakes we're making here.
24535 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
24536 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
24537 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
24538 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
24539 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
24540 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
24541 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
24542 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
24543 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
24544 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
24545 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
24546 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
24547 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
24548 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
24549 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
24552 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
24554 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
24555 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
24556 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
24557 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
24558 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
24561 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
24562 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
24563 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
24564 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
24565 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
24566 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
24567 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
24568 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
24569 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
24570 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
24573 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
24574 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
24575 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
24576 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
24577 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
24578 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
24579 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
24580 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
24583 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
24584 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
24585 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
24586 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
24587 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
24589 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
24590 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
24591 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
24592 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
24595 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
24596 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
24597 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
24598 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
24599 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
24600 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
24601 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
24602 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
24605 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
24606 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
24607 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
24608 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
24611 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
24612 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
24613 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
24614 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
24616 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
24617 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
24618 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
24621 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
24622 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
24625 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
24626 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
24627 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
24628 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
24629 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
24630 reported by "wood".
24631 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
24632 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
24633 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
24634 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
24635 identify a connection.
24636 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
24637 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
24638 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
24639 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
24640 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
24641 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
24642 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
24643 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
24644 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
24645 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
24647 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
24648 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
24649 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
24650 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
24651 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
24652 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
24653 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
24656 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
24657 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
24659 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
24660 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
24661 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
24662 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
24663 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
24664 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
24665 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24666 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
24668 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
24669 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
24670 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
24671 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
24672 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
24673 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
24674 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
24675 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
24676 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
24677 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
24678 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
24679 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
24680 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
24681 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
24682 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
24683 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
24684 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
24685 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
24686 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
24687 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
24688 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
24689 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
24690 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
24691 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
24692 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
24693 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
24694 840. Patch from rovv.
24695 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
24696 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
24697 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
24699 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
24700 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
24701 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
24702 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
24703 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
24704 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
24705 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
24707 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
24708 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
24709 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
24712 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
24713 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
24715 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
24716 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
24717 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
24718 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
24719 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
24720 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
24721 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
24722 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
24723 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
24725 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
24727 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
24728 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
24732 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
24733 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
24734 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
24735 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
24736 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
24737 variety of other issues.
24740 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
24741 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
24742 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
24743 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
24744 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
24745 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
24746 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
24747 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
24748 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
24749 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
24750 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
24751 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
24754 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
24755 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24757 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
24758 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
24759 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
24760 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
24761 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
24762 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
24763 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24764 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
24765 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
24766 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
24767 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
24768 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
24769 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
24770 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
24771 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
24775 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
24776 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
24777 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
24778 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
24779 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
24780 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
24781 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
24782 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
24783 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
24784 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
24785 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
24786 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
24787 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
24788 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
24789 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
24790 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
24791 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
24792 list. It has been gone for many months.
24793 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
24794 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
24795 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
24798 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
24799 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
24800 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
24803 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
24804 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
24805 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
24806 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
24809 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
24810 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
24811 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
24812 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
24813 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
24814 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
24816 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
24817 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
24818 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
24819 pointed out by rovv.
24822 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
24823 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24824 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
24825 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24826 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
24827 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
24828 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
24829 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
24830 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
24831 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24832 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
24833 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
24834 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
24835 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24836 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
24837 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
24838 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
24839 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
24840 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
24841 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
24842 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
24845 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
24846 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
24847 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
24848 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
24849 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
24850 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
24851 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
24853 o New v3 directory design:
24854 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
24855 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
24856 network status document rather than each publishing their own
24857 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
24858 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
24859 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
24860 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
24862 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
24863 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
24864 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
24865 dannenberg (run by CCC).
24866 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
24867 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
24868 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
24869 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
24870 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
24871 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
24872 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
24873 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
24874 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
24875 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
24877 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
24878 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
24879 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
24880 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
24881 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
24882 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
24883 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
24884 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
24885 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
24886 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
24887 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
24888 certain censored countries by default again.
24889 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
24890 Tor's x509 certificates.
24892 o Implement bridge relays:
24893 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
24894 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
24895 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
24896 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
24897 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
24898 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
24899 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
24900 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
24901 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
24902 rather than "v2,v3".
24903 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
24904 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
24905 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
24906 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
24907 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
24908 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
24909 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
24910 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
24911 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
24912 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
24913 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
24915 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
24916 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
24917 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
24918 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
24919 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
24920 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
24921 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
24922 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
24923 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
24924 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
24925 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
24926 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
24927 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
24928 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
24929 bridges are functioning.
24930 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
24931 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
24932 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
24933 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
24934 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
24935 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
24936 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
24937 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
24938 knows that password. Unset by default.
24939 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
24940 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
24941 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
24942 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
24943 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
24944 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
24945 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
24946 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
24947 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
24948 and bridges@torproject.org.
24950 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
24951 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
24952 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
24953 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
24954 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
24955 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
24956 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
24957 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
24958 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
24959 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
24960 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
24961 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
24962 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
24963 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
24964 longer a completely silly thing to do.
24966 o Major features (relay usability):
24967 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
24968 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
24969 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
24970 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
24971 proposal 111 for details.
24972 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
24973 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
24974 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
24975 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
24977 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
24978 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
24979 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
24981 o Major features (directory authorities):
24982 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
24983 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
24984 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
24985 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
24986 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
24987 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
24988 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
24989 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
24990 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
24991 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
24992 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
24993 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
24994 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
24996 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
24997 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
24998 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
24999 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
25000 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
25001 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
25002 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
25003 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
25004 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
25005 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
25006 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
25007 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
25008 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
25009 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
25010 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
25011 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
25012 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
25013 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
25014 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
25015 general, controller, or bridge.
25017 o Major features (other):
25018 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
25019 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
25020 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
25021 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
25022 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
25023 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
25024 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
25025 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
25026 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
25027 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
25028 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
25029 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
25030 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
25031 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
25034 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
25035 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
25036 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
25038 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
25039 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
25040 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
25041 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
25042 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
25043 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
25044 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
25045 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
25046 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
25047 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
25048 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
25050 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
25051 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
25053 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
25054 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
25055 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
25056 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
25058 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
25059 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
25060 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
25061 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
25062 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
25064 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
25065 address maps to an internal address space.
25066 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
25067 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
25068 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
25069 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
25070 complements proposal 107.
25071 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
25072 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
25073 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
25074 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
25075 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
25076 reported by taranis and lodger.
25077 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
25078 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
25079 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
25080 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
25081 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
25082 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
25083 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
25084 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
25085 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
25086 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
25087 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
25088 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
25089 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
25091 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
25092 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
25094 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
25095 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
25096 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
25097 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
25098 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
25099 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
25100 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
25102 o Major bugfixes (other):
25103 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
25104 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
25105 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
25107 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
25108 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
25109 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
25110 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
25111 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
25112 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
25113 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
25114 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
25115 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
25116 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
25117 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
25118 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
25119 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
25120 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
25121 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
25122 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
25123 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
25124 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
25125 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
25127 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
25128 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
25129 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
25130 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
25131 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
25132 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
25133 eat all of our bandwidth.
25134 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
25135 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
25136 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
25137 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
25138 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
25139 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
25140 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
25141 bug 688, reported by mfr.
25142 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
25143 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
25144 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
25145 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
25147 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
25148 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
25149 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
25150 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
25151 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
25152 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
25153 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
25154 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
25155 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
25156 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
25157 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
25158 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
25160 o Performance improvements (memory):
25161 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
25162 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
25163 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
25164 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
25165 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
25166 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
25167 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
25168 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
25169 memory fragmentation.
25170 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
25171 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
25172 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
25173 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
25174 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
25176 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
25177 of them were actually distinct.
25178 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
25180 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
25181 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
25182 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
25183 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
25184 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
25185 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
25186 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
25187 performance-intensive.
25188 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
25189 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
25190 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
25191 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
25192 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
25195 o Performance improvements (socket management):
25196 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
25197 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
25198 our allocated connection limit.
25199 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
25200 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
25201 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
25202 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
25203 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
25205 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
25206 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
25208 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
25209 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
25210 is interested in a given message.
25211 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
25212 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
25213 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
25214 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
25215 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
25217 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
25218 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
25219 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
25221 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
25222 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
25223 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
25224 they are the same).
25225 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
25226 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
25227 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
25228 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
25231 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
25232 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
25233 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
25234 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
25235 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
25236 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
25237 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
25239 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
25240 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
25241 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
25242 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
25243 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
25244 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
25245 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
25246 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
25247 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
25248 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
25249 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
25250 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
25251 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
25254 o Changed config option behavior (features):
25255 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
25256 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
25257 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
25258 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
25259 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
25260 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
25261 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
25262 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
25263 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
25264 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
25265 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
25266 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
25267 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
25268 and are reaching it.
25269 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
25270 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
25271 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
25272 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
25274 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
25275 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
25276 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
25277 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
25278 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
25279 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
25280 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
25281 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
25282 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
25284 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
25285 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
25286 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
25287 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
25288 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
25289 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
25290 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
25291 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
25293 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
25294 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
25296 o New config options:
25297 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
25298 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
25299 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
25300 running a test network on a single host.
25301 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
25302 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
25303 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
25304 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
25305 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
25306 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
25307 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
25308 the approved-routers file.
25309 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
25310 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
25311 v2 directory information.
25313 o Minor features (other):
25314 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
25315 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
25316 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
25317 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
25318 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
25319 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
25321 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
25322 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
25323 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
25324 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
25325 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
25326 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
25327 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
25329 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
25330 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
25331 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
25333 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
25334 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
25335 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
25336 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
25337 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
25339 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
25340 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
25341 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
25342 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
25343 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
25344 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
25345 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
25347 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
25348 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
25349 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
25350 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
25351 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
25352 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
25353 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
25354 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
25355 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
25358 o Minor bugfixes (other):
25359 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
25360 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
25362 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
25363 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
25364 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
25365 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
25366 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
25367 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
25369 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
25370 bandwidthburst values.
25371 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
25372 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
25373 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
25374 to mark all our entry points down.
25375 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
25376 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
25377 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
25378 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
25379 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
25381 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
25382 more often than they are allowed to appear.
25383 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
25384 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
25385 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
25386 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
25387 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
25388 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
25389 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
25391 o Controller features:
25392 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
25393 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
25394 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
25395 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
25396 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
25397 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
25399 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
25400 multiple controller passwords.
25401 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
25402 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
25403 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
25404 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
25406 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
25407 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
25408 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
25409 cookie authentication file, and config option
25410 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
25411 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
25412 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
25413 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
25415 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
25416 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
25417 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
25418 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
25419 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
25420 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
25421 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
25423 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
25424 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
25426 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
25427 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
25428 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
25429 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
25430 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
25431 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
25432 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
25433 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
25434 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
25435 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
25436 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
25437 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
25438 report the value as a "minimum skew."
25440 o Controller bugfixes:
25441 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
25442 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
25443 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
25444 processes can't run us out of memory.
25445 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
25446 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
25447 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
25449 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
25450 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
25451 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
25452 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
25453 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
25454 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
25455 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
25456 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
25457 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
25458 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
25459 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
25460 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
25461 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
25462 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
25463 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
25465 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
25466 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
25468 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
25469 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
25470 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
25471 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
25472 WARN-severity events.
25474 o Portability / building / compiling:
25475 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
25476 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
25477 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
25478 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
25479 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
25480 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
25481 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
25482 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
25483 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
25484 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
25485 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
25486 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
25487 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
25489 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
25490 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
25491 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
25492 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
25493 Use this version consistently in log messages.
25494 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
25495 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
25496 partial results on small file reads.
25497 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
25498 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
25499 a directory. Fix from lodger.
25500 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
25501 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
25502 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
25504 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
25505 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
25506 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
25507 logging for the unit tests.
25508 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
25509 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
25511 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
25512 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
25514 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
25515 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
25516 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
25517 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
25520 o Logging improvements:
25521 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
25522 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
25523 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
25524 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
25525 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
25526 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
25527 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
25529 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
25530 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
25531 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
25532 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
25533 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
25534 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
25535 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
25536 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
25537 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
25538 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
25539 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
25540 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
25541 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25542 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
25543 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
25544 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
25545 Good in combination with --hash-password.
25546 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
25547 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
25549 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
25550 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
25551 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
25552 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
25554 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
25555 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
25556 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
25557 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
25558 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
25560 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
25561 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
25562 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
25563 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
25564 makes the log messages nicer.
25565 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
25566 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
25568 o Contributed scripts and tools:
25569 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
25570 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
25572 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
25573 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
25574 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
25575 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
25576 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
25577 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
25578 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
25579 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
25580 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
25581 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
25583 o Newly deprecated features:
25584 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
25585 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
25586 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
25587 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
25589 o Removed features:
25590 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
25591 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
25592 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
25593 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
25594 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
25596 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
25597 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
25598 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
25599 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
25600 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
25601 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
25602 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
25603 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
25605 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
25606 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
25607 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
25608 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
25609 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
25610 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
25612 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
25613 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
25614 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
25615 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
25616 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
25617 patch from Karsten Loesing.
25618 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
25619 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
25620 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
25621 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
25622 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
25623 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
25624 code), this assumption no longer holds.
25625 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
25629 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
25630 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
25631 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
25632 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
25635 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
25636 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
25637 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
25638 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
25639 on network address.
25642 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
25643 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
25644 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
25645 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
25646 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
25647 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
25648 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
25649 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
25650 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
25651 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
25652 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
25653 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
25656 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
25657 rebuild our server descriptor.
25658 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
25659 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
25660 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
25661 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
25662 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
25663 nonstandard integer types.
25664 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
25665 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
25666 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
25667 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
25668 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
25670 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
25671 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
25672 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
25673 when they receive them.
25674 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
25675 This includes some 64-bit systems.
25676 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
25677 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
25678 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
25679 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
25680 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
25681 router_get_by_hexdigest().
25682 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
25683 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
25687 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
25688 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
25689 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
25690 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
25691 lists for a few hours each day.
25693 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25694 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
25695 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
25696 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
25697 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
25698 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
25699 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
25700 rend_process_relay_cell().
25702 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25703 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
25704 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
25705 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
25706 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
25707 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
25708 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
25709 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
25711 o Major bugfixes (other):
25712 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
25713 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
25714 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
25715 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
25716 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
25717 circuit cannibalization).
25718 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
25719 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
25720 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
25721 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
25722 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
25723 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
25726 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
25727 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
25729 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
25730 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
25731 absent. Resolves bug 467.
25732 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
25733 a way to trigger this remotely.)
25734 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
25735 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
25736 were reporting the dir port.)
25737 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
25738 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
25739 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
25740 the future. Fixes bug 434.
25741 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
25743 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
25744 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
25745 the onion key from getting rotated.
25746 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
25747 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
25748 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
25749 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
25750 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
25751 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
25752 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
25755 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
25756 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
25757 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
25758 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
25759 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
25762 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
25763 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
25766 o Major bugfixes (security):
25767 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
25768 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
25769 become more of a headache than it's worth.
25771 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
25772 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
25773 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
25775 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
25776 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
25777 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
25778 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
25779 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
25780 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
25782 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
25783 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
25784 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
25785 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
25786 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
25788 o Minor features (controller):
25789 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
25790 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
25791 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
25792 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
25794 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
25795 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
25796 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
25797 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
25798 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
25799 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
25800 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
25801 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
25803 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
25804 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
25805 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
25806 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
25807 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
25808 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
25809 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
25810 if we ran off the end of the list.
25811 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
25812 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
25813 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
25814 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
25815 every time we change any piece of our config.
25816 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
25817 encourage people using them to stop.
25818 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
25820 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
25821 servers to choose a circuit.
25822 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
25823 unparseable piece of it.
25826 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
25827 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
25828 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
25829 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
25830 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
25831 TorK, etc. Or worse.
25833 o Major security fixes:
25834 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
25835 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
25838 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
25839 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
25840 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
25841 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
25843 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
25844 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
25846 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25847 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
25848 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
25849 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
25850 routerlist while inserting a new router.
25851 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
25852 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
25854 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
25855 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
25856 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
25858 o Major bugfixes (security):
25859 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
25861 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
25862 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
25863 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
25864 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
25865 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
25866 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
25867 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
25868 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
25869 guard list unless we need to.
25871 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
25872 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
25873 don't get overused as guards.
25875 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
25876 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
25877 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
25878 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
25879 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
25881 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25882 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
25883 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
25886 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
25887 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
25888 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
25889 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
25890 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
25891 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
25892 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
25893 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
25896 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
25897 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
25898 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
25899 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
25901 o Directory authority changes:
25902 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
25903 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
25904 or use hidden services.
25906 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25907 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
25908 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
25909 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
25910 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
25911 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
25912 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
25913 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
25914 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
25917 o Major bugfixes (security):
25918 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
25919 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
25920 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
25922 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
25923 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
25924 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
25925 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
25926 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
25927 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
25928 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
25929 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
25930 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
25931 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
25934 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
25935 purpose=controller.
25936 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
25937 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
25939 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
25940 having a hard time downloading.
25941 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
25942 partial results on small file reads.
25943 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
25944 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
25945 the gaps in the store get very large.
25948 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
25949 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
25951 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
25952 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
25955 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
25956 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
25957 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
25958 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
25959 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
25960 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
25962 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
25963 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
25964 free speech on the Internet.
25966 o Major features, client performance:
25967 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
25968 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
25969 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
25970 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
25971 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
25972 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
25973 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
25974 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
25975 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
25976 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
25977 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
25978 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
25979 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
25980 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
25981 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
25983 o Major features, client functionality:
25984 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
25985 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
25986 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
25987 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
25988 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
25989 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
25990 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
25991 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
25992 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
25993 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
25994 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
25995 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
25996 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
25998 o Major features, servers:
25999 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
26000 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
26001 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
26002 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
26003 authenticated, so use with care.
26004 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
26005 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
26006 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
26008 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
26009 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
26010 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
26011 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
26012 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
26013 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
26015 o Improvements on DNS support:
26016 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
26017 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
26018 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
26019 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
26020 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
26021 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
26022 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
26023 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
26024 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
26025 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
26026 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
26027 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
26028 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
26029 lets you turn it off.
26030 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
26031 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
26032 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
26033 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
26034 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
26035 useful to the network.
26036 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
26037 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
26038 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
26039 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
26040 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
26041 our tests for DNS hijacking.
26043 o Improvements on reachability testing:
26044 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
26045 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
26046 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
26047 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
26048 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
26049 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
26050 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
26051 if their identity keys are as expected.
26052 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
26053 chews through many circuits before giving up.
26054 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
26055 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
26056 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
26057 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
26058 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
26059 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
26060 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
26061 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
26062 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
26063 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
26064 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
26065 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
26067 o Improvements on rate limiting:
26068 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
26069 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
26070 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
26071 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
26072 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
26074 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
26075 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
26076 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
26077 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
26078 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
26079 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
26080 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
26081 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
26083 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
26084 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
26086 o Major features, NT services:
26087 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
26088 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
26089 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
26090 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
26091 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
26092 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
26093 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
26095 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
26096 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
26097 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
26099 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
26100 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
26101 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
26103 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
26104 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
26106 o Directory authority improvements:
26107 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
26109 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
26110 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
26111 too much load to the exit nodes.
26112 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
26113 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
26114 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
26115 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
26116 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
26117 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
26118 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
26119 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
26120 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
26121 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
26122 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
26123 broken. Not used yet.
26124 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
26125 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
26126 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
26127 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
26128 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
26129 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
26130 non-versioning dirservers.
26131 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
26132 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
26133 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
26135 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
26136 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
26137 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
26138 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
26140 o Directory mirrors and clients:
26141 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
26142 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
26143 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
26144 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
26145 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
26146 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
26147 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
26148 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
26149 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
26150 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
26151 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
26152 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
26153 routers for even longer.
26154 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
26155 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
26156 caching HTTP proxies.
26157 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
26158 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
26159 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
26160 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
26162 o Major fixes, crashes:
26163 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
26164 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
26165 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
26166 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
26168 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
26169 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
26170 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
26171 stream is detached.
26172 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
26173 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
26174 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
26175 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
26176 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
26177 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
26178 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
26179 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
26180 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
26181 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
26183 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
26184 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
26185 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
26186 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
26187 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
26188 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
26189 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
26190 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
26191 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
26192 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
26193 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
26194 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
26195 could return an unnamed server instead.
26196 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
26197 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
26198 a more attractive target for compromise.)
26199 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
26200 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
26201 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
26202 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
26204 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
26205 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
26207 o Major fixes, other:
26208 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
26209 uptime in the descriptor.
26210 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
26211 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
26212 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
26213 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
26214 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
26215 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
26216 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
26217 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
26218 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
26219 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
26220 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
26221 our DirPort now, etc.
26222 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
26223 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
26224 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
26226 o New config options or behaviors:
26227 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
26228 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
26229 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
26230 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
26231 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
26232 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
26233 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
26234 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
26235 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
26236 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
26237 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
26238 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
26240 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
26241 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
26242 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
26243 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
26244 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
26246 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
26247 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
26248 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
26249 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
26250 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
26251 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
26252 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
26253 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
26254 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
26255 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
26256 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
26257 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
26258 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
26259 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
26260 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
26261 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
26262 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
26263 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
26264 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
26265 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
26266 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
26267 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
26268 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
26269 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
26270 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
26271 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
26272 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
26273 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
26274 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
26275 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
26277 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
26278 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
26279 your ORPort is set.
26282 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
26283 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
26285 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
26286 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
26287 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
26288 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
26290 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
26291 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
26292 whether the config options are bad or good.
26293 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
26294 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
26295 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
26296 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
26297 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
26298 result more than once.
26299 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
26300 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
26301 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
26302 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
26303 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
26304 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
26305 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
26306 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
26307 before we check for libevent.
26308 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
26309 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
26310 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
26311 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
26312 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
26313 recommendation system saner.)
26314 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
26315 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
26316 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
26317 now universal binaries.
26318 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
26319 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
26321 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
26323 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
26324 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
26325 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
26326 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
26327 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
26328 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
26330 o Minor features, controller:
26331 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
26332 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
26333 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
26335 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
26336 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
26337 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
26338 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
26339 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
26340 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
26341 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
26343 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
26344 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
26345 connected or resolved cell.
26346 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
26347 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
26348 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
26349 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
26350 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
26351 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
26352 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
26354 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
26355 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
26356 entry guard status as it changes.
26357 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
26358 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
26359 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
26360 watching for STREAM events.
26361 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
26362 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
26363 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
26364 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
26366 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
26367 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
26368 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
26369 working much like those for circuit events.
26370 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
26371 about the current status of a router.
26372 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
26373 a router's status has changed.
26374 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
26375 can tell which events and features are supported.
26376 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
26377 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
26378 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
26379 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
26380 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
26381 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
26382 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
26383 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
26384 for more information.
26385 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
26386 best guess to the user.
26387 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
26388 descriptor has changed.
26389 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
26390 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
26391 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
26393 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
26394 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
26395 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
26396 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
26397 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
26398 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
26399 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
26400 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
26401 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
26402 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
26403 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
26405 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
26406 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
26408 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
26409 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
26410 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
26412 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
26413 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
26414 the controller from learning about current events.
26415 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
26416 reported by Mike Perry.
26417 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
26418 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
26419 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
26420 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
26421 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
26422 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
26423 long nicknames where appropriate.
26424 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
26425 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
26427 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
26428 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
26429 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
26430 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
26431 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
26433 o Minor features, code performance:
26434 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
26435 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
26436 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
26438 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
26439 some profiles, but not others.)
26440 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
26441 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
26442 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
26443 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
26444 operations, for profiling.
26445 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
26446 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
26447 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
26448 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
26449 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
26450 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
26451 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
26452 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
26454 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
26455 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
26456 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
26457 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
26458 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
26459 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
26460 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
26461 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
26462 family lists conveniently.
26464 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
26465 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
26466 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
26467 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
26468 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
26469 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
26470 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
26471 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
26472 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
26473 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
26474 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
26475 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
26476 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
26477 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
26478 of it), is not therefore "up".
26480 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
26481 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
26482 what version a router is running.
26483 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
26484 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
26485 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
26486 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
26488 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
26489 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
26490 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
26491 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
26492 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
26495 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
26496 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
26497 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
26499 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
26500 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
26502 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
26503 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
26504 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
26505 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
26506 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
26507 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
26508 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
26509 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
26510 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
26511 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
26513 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
26514 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
26515 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
26516 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
26517 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
26518 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
26519 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
26520 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
26521 get one we don't recognize.
26524 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
26525 o Security bugfixes:
26526 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
26527 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
26528 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
26529 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
26533 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
26534 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
26535 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
26538 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
26540 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
26541 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
26542 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
26543 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
26544 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
26545 its circuits on demand.
26546 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
26547 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
26548 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
26549 connections more stable on average.
26550 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
26551 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
26552 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
26554 o Security bugfixes:
26555 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
26556 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
26559 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
26561 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
26562 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
26563 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
26564 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
26565 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
26566 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
26567 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
26568 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
26571 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
26573 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
26574 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
26575 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
26576 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
26577 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
26578 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
26579 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
26580 it can't resolve its hostname.
26581 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
26582 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
26583 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
26586 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
26587 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
26588 "extendcircuit" request.
26589 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
26590 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
26591 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
26592 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
26594 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
26595 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
26596 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
26598 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
26599 methods: these are known to be buggy.
26600 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
26601 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
26602 we don't recognize.
26605 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
26607 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
26608 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
26609 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
26610 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
26611 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
26612 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
26613 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
26614 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
26615 test reachability, so you won't publish.
26618 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
26619 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
26620 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
26621 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
26622 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
26624 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
26625 own server descriptor yet.
26628 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
26630 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
26631 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
26632 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
26633 make sure to test via one of these.
26634 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
26635 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
26636 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
26637 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
26638 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
26640 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
26641 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
26642 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
26645 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
26646 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
26647 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
26648 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
26649 directory authority.
26650 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
26651 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
26652 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
26653 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
26656 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
26657 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
26658 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
26660 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
26661 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
26662 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
26663 current guards when picking a new guard.
26664 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
26665 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
26666 when we had more than one pending.
26667 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
26668 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
26669 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
26670 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
26671 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
26672 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
26673 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
26674 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
26675 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
26676 debug the reachability problems better.
26678 o Log / documentation fixes:
26679 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
26680 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
26681 about protocol violations by others.
26682 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
26683 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
26684 about what happened to our old torrc.
26687 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
26688 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
26689 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
26690 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
26691 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
26692 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
26694 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
26695 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
26696 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
26697 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
26698 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
26699 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
26700 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
26701 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
26702 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
26703 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
26704 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
26705 on malicious huge inputs.
26707 o Security fixes, major:
26708 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
26709 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
26710 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
26711 misreading their logs.
26712 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
26713 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
26714 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
26715 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
26716 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
26717 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
26718 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
26719 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
26720 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
26721 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
26722 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
26723 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
26724 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
26725 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
26727 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
26728 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
26729 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
26730 firewall options forbid.
26731 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
26732 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
26733 can only proxy to certain destinations.
26734 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
26735 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
26736 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
26738 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
26739 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
26740 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
26741 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
26742 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
26743 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
26744 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
26745 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
26746 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
26747 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
26748 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
26749 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
26750 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
26752 o Security fixes, minor:
26753 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
26754 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
26756 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
26757 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
26758 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
26759 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
26760 if we've not heard of a server.
26761 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
26762 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
26763 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
26764 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
26765 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
26766 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
26767 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
26768 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
26769 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
26770 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
26771 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
26772 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
26773 aids some statistical attacks.
26774 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
26775 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
26776 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
26777 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
26778 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
26779 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
26780 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
26781 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
26784 o Packaging improvements:
26785 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
26786 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
26787 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
26788 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
26789 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
26790 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
26792 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
26793 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
26794 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
26795 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
26796 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
26797 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
26799 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
26800 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
26801 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
26803 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
26804 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
26805 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
26806 They are useless now.
26807 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
26808 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
26809 is reachable by you.
26810 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
26813 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
26814 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
26815 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
26816 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
26817 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
26818 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
26819 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
26820 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
26821 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
26822 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
26823 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
26824 and isolating attacks better.
26825 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
26826 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
26827 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
26828 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
26829 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
26830 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
26831 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
26832 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
26833 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
26834 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
26835 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
26837 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
26838 can answer v2 directory requests too.
26839 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
26840 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
26841 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
26842 mirrors still cache and serve it).
26843 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
26844 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
26845 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
26846 for clients and for servers.
26847 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
26848 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
26849 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
26850 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
26851 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
26852 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
26853 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
26854 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
26855 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
26856 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
26857 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
26859 o Other directory improvements:
26860 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
26861 fifth authoritative directory servers.
26862 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
26863 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
26864 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
26865 to hang up on them.
26866 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
26867 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
26868 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
26869 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
26870 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
26871 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
26873 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
26874 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
26875 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
26876 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
26877 connections more reliable.
26878 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
26879 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
26880 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
26881 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
26882 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
26883 we fail to connect).
26884 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
26886 o Controller protocol improvements:
26887 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
26888 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
26889 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
26890 applications without caring how our protocol works.
26891 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
26892 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
26893 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
26894 many bytes we've used in this time period.
26895 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
26896 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
26897 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
26898 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
26899 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
26900 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
26901 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
26902 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
26903 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
26904 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
26905 or "signal reload".
26906 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
26907 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
26908 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
26909 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
26910 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
26911 a router in its role as directory authority.
26912 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
26913 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
26914 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
26915 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
26916 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
26917 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
26918 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
26919 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
26920 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
26921 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
26922 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
26923 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
26924 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
26925 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
26926 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
26927 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
26928 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
26929 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
26931 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
26932 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
26933 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
26934 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
26935 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
26936 just tell them to go read their logs.
26938 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
26939 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
26940 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
26941 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
26942 try to be a bit more fair.
26943 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
26944 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
26945 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
26946 and we're using a default DirPort.
26947 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
26948 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
26949 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
26950 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
26951 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
26952 services faster on the service end.
26953 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
26955 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
26956 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
26957 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
26958 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
26959 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
26960 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
26961 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
26962 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
26963 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
26964 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
26965 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
26966 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
26967 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
26968 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
26969 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
26970 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
26971 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
26972 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
26973 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
26974 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
26975 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
26976 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
26977 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
26978 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
26979 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
26981 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
26982 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
26983 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
26984 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
26985 so we can be backward-compatible.
26986 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
26987 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
26988 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
26989 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
26990 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
26991 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
26992 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
26993 initial descriptor forever.
26994 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
26995 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
26996 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
26997 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
26998 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
26999 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
27000 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
27001 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
27002 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
27003 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
27004 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
27005 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
27006 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
27007 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
27008 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
27009 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
27010 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
27011 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
27012 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
27013 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
27014 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
27015 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
27016 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
27017 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
27018 ports that have changed.
27019 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
27020 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
27021 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
27022 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
27023 connections once a week.
27024 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
27025 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
27026 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
27027 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
27028 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
27029 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
27030 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
27031 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
27032 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
27033 able to discover them.
27034 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
27035 want to make it an NT service.
27036 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
27037 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
27038 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
27039 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
27040 memory leaks better.
27041 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
27042 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
27043 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
27044 statistics are now uint64_t's.
27045 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
27046 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
27047 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
27048 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
27049 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
27050 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
27051 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
27052 default ulimit -n is 1024.
27053 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
27054 and its existence is confusing some users.
27056 o Config option fixes:
27057 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
27058 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
27059 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
27060 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
27061 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
27062 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
27063 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
27064 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
27065 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
27067 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
27068 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
27069 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
27070 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
27071 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
27072 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
27073 it would silently ignore the 6668.
27074 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
27075 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
27076 silently resetting it to its default.
27077 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
27078 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
27079 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
27080 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
27081 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
27082 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
27083 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
27084 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
27085 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
27086 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
27087 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
27088 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
27089 Address config option.
27090 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
27091 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
27093 o Config option features:
27094 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
27095 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
27096 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
27097 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
27098 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
27100 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
27101 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
27102 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
27103 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
27104 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
27105 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
27106 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
27107 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
27108 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
27109 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
27110 in at least some cases.)
27111 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
27112 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
27113 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
27114 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
27115 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
27116 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
27117 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
27118 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
27119 even if we know they're jerks.
27120 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
27121 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
27122 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
27123 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
27124 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
27125 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
27126 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
27127 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
27128 because older Tors do not understand it.
27129 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
27130 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
27131 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
27132 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
27133 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
27134 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
27135 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
27136 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
27137 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
27138 unattached before we fail it?
27139 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
27140 at least this many seconds ago.
27141 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
27142 at least this many seconds ago.
27143 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
27144 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
27146 o Improved and clearer log messages:
27147 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
27148 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
27149 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
27151 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
27152 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
27153 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
27154 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
27155 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
27156 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
27157 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
27158 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
27159 temporarily unreachable.
27160 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
27161 Windows-style errno back.
27162 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
27163 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
27165 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
27166 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
27167 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
27168 exactly for this case.
27169 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
27170 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
27171 don't warn twice about the same name.
27172 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
27174 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
27175 it was self-testing that told us so.
27176 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
27177 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
27178 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
27179 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
27180 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
27181 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
27182 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
27183 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
27184 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
27185 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
27186 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
27187 established a circuit.
27188 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
27189 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
27190 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
27191 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
27192 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
27193 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
27194 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
27195 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
27196 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
27197 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
27198 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
27199 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
27200 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
27201 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
27202 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
27203 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
27204 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
27205 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
27206 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
27207 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
27208 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
27209 testing for reachability.
27210 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
27211 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
27213 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
27216 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
27217 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27218 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
27219 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
27221 o Other important bugfixes:
27222 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
27223 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
27224 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
27225 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
27227 o Backported features:
27228 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
27229 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
27230 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
27231 without getting overloaded.
27232 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
27233 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
27234 503's whenever they feel busy.
27235 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
27236 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
27237 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
27238 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
27239 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
27242 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
27243 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27244 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
27245 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
27246 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
27247 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
27248 too -- so detect and avoid this.
27249 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
27251 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
27252 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
27253 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
27254 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
27255 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
27256 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
27257 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
27258 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
27259 rendezvous circuits.
27260 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
27262 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27263 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
27264 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
27265 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
27266 advertising it because of hibernation.
27267 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
27268 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
27269 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
27270 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
27271 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
27272 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
27273 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
27274 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
27275 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
27276 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
27277 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
27278 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
27279 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
27280 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
27281 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
27284 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
27285 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27286 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
27287 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
27288 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
27289 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
27290 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
27291 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
27292 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
27293 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
27294 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
27295 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
27296 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
27297 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
27298 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
27301 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
27302 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27303 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
27305 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
27306 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
27309 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
27310 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27311 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
27312 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
27313 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
27314 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
27315 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
27317 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
27318 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
27322 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
27323 o New directory servers:
27324 - tor26 has changed IP address.
27326 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27327 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
27328 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
27329 pthreads libraries.
27330 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
27331 claims its dirport is 0.
27332 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
27333 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
27337 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
27338 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27339 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
27340 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
27341 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
27342 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
27343 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
27344 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
27347 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
27349 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
27350 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
27351 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
27352 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
27353 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
27354 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
27355 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
27356 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
27357 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
27359 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
27360 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
27362 o Assert / crash bugs:
27363 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
27364 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
27365 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
27367 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
27368 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
27369 TLS errors better in other situations too.
27370 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
27371 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
27374 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
27375 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
27376 duplicate ram over time.
27377 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
27378 reentry and threadsafeness.
27379 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
27380 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
27381 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
27383 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
27384 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
27385 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
27386 point at your Tor server.
27387 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
27389 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
27390 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
27393 o Protocol correctness:
27394 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
27395 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
27396 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
27397 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
27398 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
27399 to abandon partially built circuits.
27400 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
27401 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
27402 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
27403 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
27404 descriptors we just dropped.
27405 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
27406 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
27407 and to take errno into account where possible.
27408 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
27409 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
27410 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
27411 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
27413 o Robustness improvements:
27414 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
27415 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
27416 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
27418 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
27419 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
27420 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
27421 that will want high uptime circuits.
27422 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
27423 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
27424 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
27425 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
27426 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
27427 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
27428 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
27429 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
27430 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
27431 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
27432 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
27433 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
27434 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
27435 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
27436 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
27437 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
27438 for google.com" problem.
27439 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
27440 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
27441 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
27442 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
27443 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
27446 o Reachability testing.
27447 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
27448 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
27449 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
27450 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
27451 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
27452 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
27453 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
27454 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
27455 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
27456 already connected to them.
27457 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
27461 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
27462 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
27463 nickname+key are allowed.
27464 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
27465 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
27466 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
27467 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
27468 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
27469 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
27470 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
27471 have quite wrong clocks).
27472 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
27473 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
27474 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
27475 their descriptors are being rejected.
27477 o Efficiency improvements:
27478 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
27479 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
27480 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
27481 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
27482 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
27483 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
27484 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
27485 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
27486 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
27487 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
27489 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
27490 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
27491 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
27492 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
27493 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
27494 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
27495 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
27496 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
27497 of CPU time plus memory.
27498 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
27499 directory every time you regenerate it.
27500 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
27501 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
27502 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
27503 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
27504 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
27505 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
27506 lowercase when you first see them.
27509 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
27510 hidden services better.
27511 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
27512 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
27513 when we try to launch one.
27514 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
27515 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
27516 attempts to build a circuit.
27517 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
27518 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
27519 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
27520 normal web requests.
27523 - More Tor controller support. See
27524 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
27525 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
27526 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
27527 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
27528 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
27529 to make it easier to write controllers.
27530 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
27531 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
27532 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
27533 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
27534 new log event types.
27536 o New config options/defaults:
27537 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
27538 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
27539 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
27540 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
27541 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
27543 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
27545 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
27546 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
27547 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
27548 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
27549 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
27551 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
27552 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
27553 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
27554 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
27555 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
27556 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
27557 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
27558 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
27559 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
27560 required exit node for certain sites.
27561 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
27562 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
27563 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
27564 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
27565 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
27566 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
27567 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
27568 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
27569 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
27571 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
27572 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
27573 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
27574 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
27575 private-IP addresses.
27576 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
27577 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
27578 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
27579 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
27580 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
27581 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
27582 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
27583 is valid without actually launching Tor.
27585 o Logging improvements:
27586 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
27587 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
27588 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
27589 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
27591 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
27592 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
27593 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
27594 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
27595 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
27596 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
27597 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
27598 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
27599 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
27601 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
27603 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
27604 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
27605 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
27606 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
27607 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
27608 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
27610 o New contrib scripts:
27611 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
27612 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
27614 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
27615 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
27616 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
27617 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
27618 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
27619 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
27621 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
27622 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
27623 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
27624 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
27628 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
27629 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
27630 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
27631 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
27632 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
27633 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
27634 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
27636 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
27637 something more reasonable when first installing.
27638 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
27639 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
27640 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
27641 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
27643 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
27644 artificially capped at 500kB.
27645 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
27647 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
27648 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
27649 they could use instead.
27650 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
27651 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
27652 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
27653 the user asks you to.
27656 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
27657 rather than just rejecting it.
27658 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
27659 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
27660 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
27661 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
27662 rather than just "success" or "failure".
27663 - A more sane version numbering system. See
27664 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
27665 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
27666 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
27667 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
27668 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
27669 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
27671 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
27672 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
27673 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
27674 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
27676 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
27677 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
27679 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
27680 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
27681 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
27682 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
27684 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
27685 whether the server is hibernating.
27688 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
27689 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
27690 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
27691 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
27692 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
27696 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
27697 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
27698 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
27699 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
27700 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
27703 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
27704 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
27705 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
27706 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
27707 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
27708 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
27709 busy for more than 100 seconds.
27712 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
27713 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
27714 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
27715 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
27716 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
27717 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
27718 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
27719 creating actual system users.
27720 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
27721 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
27725 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
27726 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
27727 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
27728 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
27729 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
27730 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
27731 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
27732 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
27733 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
27734 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
27735 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
27736 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
27737 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
27738 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
27739 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
27741 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
27742 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
27743 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
27744 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
27745 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
27746 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
27747 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
27748 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
27749 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
27750 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
27751 existing torrc files.
27752 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
27755 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
27756 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
27757 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
27758 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
27759 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
27760 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
27761 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
27762 the win32 SYSTEM account.
27763 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
27764 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
27765 file descriptors available.
27766 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
27767 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
27768 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
27771 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
27772 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
27773 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
27774 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
27776 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
27777 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
27778 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
27779 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
27780 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
27782 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
27783 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
27784 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
27785 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
27786 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
27787 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
27788 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
27789 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
27790 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
27791 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
27792 800kB/s of capacity.
27793 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
27796 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
27797 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
27798 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
27799 need as much processor time.
27800 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
27801 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
27802 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
27803 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
27804 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
27805 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
27806 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
27807 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
27808 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
27809 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
27810 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
27811 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
27813 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
27814 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
27815 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
27816 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
27817 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
27818 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
27819 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
27822 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
27823 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
27824 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
27826 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
27827 style address, then we'd crash.
27828 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
27829 a dirserver is broken.
27830 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
27832 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
27833 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
27834 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
27836 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
27837 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
27838 name out of the warning/assert messages.
27839 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
27840 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
27841 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
27843 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
27844 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
27845 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
27847 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
27849 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
27850 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
27851 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
27852 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
27853 values at once couldn't work.
27854 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
27855 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
27856 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
27857 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
27858 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
27859 they can handle any number of routers.
27860 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
27861 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
27862 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
27863 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
27864 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
27865 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
27866 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
27867 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
27868 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
27871 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
27872 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
27873 - Make hibernation actually work.
27874 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
27875 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
27876 don't use the stream status code.
27879 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
27880 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
27881 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
27882 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
27883 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
27884 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
27885 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
27886 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
27887 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
27888 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
27889 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
27890 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
27893 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
27894 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
27895 win32 socket errors better.
27896 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
27897 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
27898 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
27899 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
27901 - Make unit tests work on win32.
27903 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
27904 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
27905 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
27906 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
27907 right after sending the begin cell.
27908 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
27909 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
27910 exit nodes too. Oops.
27911 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
27912 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
27913 the user would get no response.
27914 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
27915 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
27916 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
27918 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
27919 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
27920 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
27921 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
27922 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
27924 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
27925 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
27926 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
27927 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
27928 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
27929 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
27930 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
27931 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
27932 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
27933 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
27934 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
27936 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
27937 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
27938 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
27939 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
27940 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
27941 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
27942 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
27943 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
27944 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
27945 so we don't see those messages days later.
27946 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
27947 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
27949 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
27950 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
27951 they ran out of file descriptors.
27952 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
27953 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
27954 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
27955 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
27957 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
27958 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
27959 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
27960 the ones we find in directories.)
27961 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
27962 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
27963 if you don't want it open.
27964 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
27965 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
27966 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
27967 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
27968 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
27969 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
27971 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
27972 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
27974 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
27976 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
27977 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
27979 o Features (circuits and streams):
27980 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
27981 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
27982 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
27983 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
27984 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
27985 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
27986 the user knows which one it's talking about.
27987 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
27988 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
27989 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
27990 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
27991 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
27992 from Geoff Goodell.
27993 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
27995 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
27996 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
27997 to fill the last cell completely.
27998 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
27999 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
28001 o Features (bandwidth):
28002 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
28003 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
28004 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
28005 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
28006 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
28007 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
28008 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
28009 your billing cycle starts on.
28010 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
28011 hibernation properties by
28012 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
28013 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
28014 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
28015 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
28016 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
28018 o Features (directories):
28019 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
28020 nickname to its identity key.
28021 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
28022 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
28023 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
28024 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
28025 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
28027 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
28028 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
28030 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
28031 will be able to get a directory.
28032 - Http proxy support
28033 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
28034 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
28035 be routed through this host.
28036 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
28037 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
28038 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
28039 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
28040 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
28041 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
28043 o Features (packages and install):
28044 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
28045 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
28046 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
28047 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
28048 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
28049 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
28050 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
28051 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
28052 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
28053 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
28056 o Features (ui controller):
28057 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
28058 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
28059 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
28060 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
28061 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
28062 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
28063 with the control port.
28064 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
28065 use in authenticating to the control interface.
28066 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
28067 configuration to torrc.
28068 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
28069 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
28070 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
28072 o Features (config and command-line):
28073 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
28074 not on the command line.
28075 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
28077 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
28078 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
28079 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
28080 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
28081 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
28082 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
28083 - New log format in config:
28084 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
28085 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
28086 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
28087 from their dirserver.
28088 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
28090 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
28091 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
28092 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
28093 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
28094 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
28095 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
28096 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
28097 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
28098 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
28099 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
28100 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
28101 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
28102 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
28103 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
28104 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
28105 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
28106 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
28107 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
28108 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
28109 than once per minute.
28111 o Features (other):
28112 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
28113 get back to normal.)
28114 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
28115 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
28116 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
28117 log more informatively.
28118 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
28119 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
28120 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
28121 from each other, to hinder linkability.
28122 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
28123 them act more like real nodes.
28124 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
28125 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
28126 1024) file descriptors.
28127 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
28130 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
28132 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
28133 clients/servers with an open dirport.
28134 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
28135 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
28136 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
28137 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
28138 intermittent connections.
28139 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
28140 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
28142 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
28143 in reporting stats locally.
28144 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
28145 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
28146 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
28149 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
28151 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
28152 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
28153 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
28154 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
28155 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
28156 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
28157 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
28158 list to decide who's running.
28159 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
28160 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
28161 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
28162 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
28163 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
28164 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
28165 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
28166 for pointing out this bug.)
28167 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
28169 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
28170 don't put it into the client dns cache.
28171 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
28172 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
28173 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
28175 o Protocol changes:
28176 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
28177 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
28178 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
28179 hadn't heard of before.
28182 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
28183 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
28184 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
28185 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
28186 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
28187 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
28188 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
28189 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
28190 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
28191 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
28192 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
28193 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
28194 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
28195 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
28196 - Directory caching.
28197 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
28198 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
28199 directory they've pulled down.
28200 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
28201 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
28202 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
28203 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
28204 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
28205 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
28206 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
28208 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
28209 This isn't used yet.
28210 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
28211 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
28212 clients don't use this yet.)
28213 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
28214 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
28215 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
28216 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
28217 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
28218 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
28219 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
28220 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
28221 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
28222 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
28223 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
28224 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
28225 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
28226 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
28227 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
28228 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
28229 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
28230 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
28231 - File and name management:
28232 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
28233 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
28235 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
28236 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
28237 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
28238 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
28239 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
28240 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
28241 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
28243 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
28244 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
28245 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
28247 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
28248 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
28249 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
28250 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
28251 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
28252 - New docs in the tarball:
28254 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
28255 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
28256 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
28257 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
28258 know you might want to get it verified.
28259 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
28260 kazaa, gnutella ports.
28261 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
28262 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
28263 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
28264 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
28265 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
28266 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
28267 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
28269 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
28271 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
28272 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
28274 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
28275 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
28276 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
28279 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
28280 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
28281 ask them to resolve the host "".
28284 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
28285 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
28286 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
28289 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
28290 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
28291 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
28294 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
28295 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
28296 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
28297 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
28299 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
28300 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
28301 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
28303 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
28304 hidden service per 15-minute period.
28305 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
28306 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
28307 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
28308 o Fixes for security bugs:
28309 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
28310 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
28311 a trusted dirserver.
28313 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
28314 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
28315 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
28316 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
28317 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
28318 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
28319 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
28320 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
28321 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
28322 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
28324 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
28325 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
28326 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
28327 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
28328 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
28329 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
28331 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
28334 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
28335 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
28336 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
28337 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
28338 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
28339 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
28340 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
28341 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
28342 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
28343 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
28344 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
28345 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
28346 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
28347 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
28350 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
28351 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
28352 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
28353 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
28356 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
28357 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
28358 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
28359 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
28360 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
28361 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
28362 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
28366 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
28368 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
28369 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
28370 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
28371 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
28372 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
28373 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
28374 if you decrypted them correctly.
28375 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
28376 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
28377 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
28378 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
28379 in-memory directories too.
28380 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
28381 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
28382 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
28383 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
28384 just close the circ.
28385 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
28386 - Better debugging for tls errors
28387 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
28388 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
28390 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
28391 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
28392 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
28393 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
28394 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
28395 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
28396 it tells you about the first error.
28397 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
28398 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
28399 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
28400 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
28401 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
28402 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
28403 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
28404 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
28405 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
28406 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
28408 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
28409 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
28412 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
28413 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
28415 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
28416 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
28417 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
28418 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
28419 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
28420 expect it to have a nickname.
28421 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
28422 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
28423 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
28424 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
28425 the dns farm to do it.
28426 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
28427 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
28429 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
28430 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
28431 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
28432 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
28433 but that aren't warnings
28436 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
28437 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
28441 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
28442 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
28443 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
28444 - include missing header fcntl.h
28445 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
28446 - deal with hardware word alignment
28447 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
28448 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
28449 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
28450 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
28451 by kill -USR1 currently.
28452 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
28453 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
28454 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
28457 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
28458 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
28459 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
28462 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
28464 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
28465 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
28466 - And fix a few endian issues.
28469 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
28471 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
28472 try that circuit again: try a new one.
28473 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
28474 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
28475 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
28476 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
28477 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
28478 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
28480 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
28481 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
28482 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
28484 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
28486 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
28487 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
28488 side isn't reading right then.
28489 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
28490 RecommendedVersions
28491 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
28492 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
28493 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
28496 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
28498 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
28499 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
28502 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
28506 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
28508 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
28509 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
28510 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
28511 connection is finished.
28512 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
28513 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
28514 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
28515 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
28516 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
28517 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
28518 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
28519 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
28520 rather than warn and continue.
28521 - Make --version work
28522 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
28525 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
28527 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
28528 knows it's working.
28529 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
28530 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
28532 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
28533 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
28534 so you can collect coredumps there.
28536 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
28537 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
28538 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
28539 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
28540 dns cache actually gets populated.
28541 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
28542 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
28543 end cell down it first.
28544 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
28545 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
28548 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
28550 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
28551 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
28553 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
28554 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
28555 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
28556 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
28557 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
28558 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
28560 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
28562 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
28563 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
28564 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
28565 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
28566 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
28567 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
28569 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
28570 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
28573 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
28575 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
28576 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
28577 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
28578 tor. It even has a man page.
28579 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
28580 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
28581 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
28582 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
28584 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
28586 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
28589 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
28591 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
28592 it, apt-getters. :)
28593 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
28594 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
28595 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
28596 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
28597 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
28598 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
28599 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
28600 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
28601 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
28602 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
28603 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
28605 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
28606 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
28609 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
28611 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
28612 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
28615 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
28617 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
28618 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
28619 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
28620 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
28621 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
28622 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
28623 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
28624 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
28625 logfile so you know it's working.
28626 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
28627 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
28630 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
28632 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
28633 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
28634 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
28637 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
28639 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
28640 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
28641 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
28644 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
28645 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
28646 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
28648 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
28649 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
28651 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
28652 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
28653 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
28655 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
28656 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
28660 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
28662 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
28663 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
28664 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
28667 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
28668 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
28669 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
28670 - Add port ranges to exit policies
28671 - Add a conservative default exit policy
28672 - Warn if you're running tor as root
28673 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
28674 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
28675 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
28676 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
28678 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
28681 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
28682 o Robustness and bugfixes:
28683 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
28684 really screw things up.
28685 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
28687 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
28688 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
28690 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
28691 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
28692 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
28693 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
28694 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
28695 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
28698 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
28701 - Change default loglevel to warn.
28702 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
28703 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
28705 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
28708 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
28709 o Robustness and bugfixes:
28710 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
28711 - to get ownership/permissions right
28712 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
28713 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
28714 pull down a directory again
28715 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
28716 causing server crashes
28717 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
28718 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
28719 - exit if bind() fails
28720 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
28721 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
28722 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
28723 - fix minor bias in PRNG
28724 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
28727 - Wrote the design document (woo)
28729 o Circuit building and exit policies:
28730 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
28732 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
28733 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
28734 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
28735 exists, rather than failing
28736 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
28737 which AP connections are standing by
28738 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
28739 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
28740 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
28742 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
28743 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
28746 - APPort is now called SocksPort
28747 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
28749 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
28750 hardcoded (for dirservers)
28751 - Reloads config on HUP
28752 - Usage info on -h or --help
28753 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
28755 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
28756 o General stability:
28757 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
28758 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
28759 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
28760 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
28761 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
28762 to take down the network when I approve a new router
28763 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
28766 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
28767 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
28769 o Autoconf improvements:
28770 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
28771 - Make install now works
28772 - create var/lib/tor on make install
28773 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
28774 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
28776 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
28777 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
28778 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
28779 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup