1 Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
2 Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is the first release in the new 0.4.0.x series. It
3 introduces improved features for power and bandwidth conservation,
4 more accurate reporting of bootstrap progress for user interfaces, and
5 an experimental backend for an exciting new adaptive padding feature.
6 There is also the usual assortment of bugfixes and minor features, all
9 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
10 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
11 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
12 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
13 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
14 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
16 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
17 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
19 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
20 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
23 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
24 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
25 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
26 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
27 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
28 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
29 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
30 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
31 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
34 o Major features (circuit padding):
35 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
36 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
37 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
38 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
39 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
40 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
41 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
42 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
45 o Major features (refactoring):
46 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
47 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
48 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
49 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
52 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
53 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
54 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
55 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
56 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
59 o Minor features (continuous integration):
60 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
63 o Minor features (controller):
64 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
65 Implements ticket 28843.
67 o Minor features (developer tooling):
68 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
69 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
70 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
72 o Minor features (directory authority):
73 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
74 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
75 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
76 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
79 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
80 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
81 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
82 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
83 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
84 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
85 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
87 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
88 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
89 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
91 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
92 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
93 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
96 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
97 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
98 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
99 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
101 o Minor features (IPv6):
102 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
103 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
104 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
105 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
106 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
107 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
108 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
109 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
110 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
111 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
113 o Minor features (log messages):
114 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
115 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
118 o Minor features (memory usage):
119 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
120 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
121 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
122 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
123 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
125 o Minor features (parsing):
126 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
127 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
128 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
130 o Minor features (performance):
131 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
132 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
133 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
134 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
136 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
137 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
139 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
140 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
141 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
142 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
143 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
144 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
146 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
147 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
148 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
149 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
150 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
152 o Minor features (process management):
153 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
154 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
155 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
156 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
157 module. Closes ticket 28847.
159 o Minor features (relay):
160 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
161 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
162 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
164 o Minor features (required protocols):
165 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
166 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
167 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
168 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
169 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
170 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
171 297; closes ticket 27735.
173 o Minor features (testing):
174 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
175 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
177 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
178 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
179 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
180 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
181 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
184 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
185 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
186 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
187 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
189 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
190 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
191 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
193 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
194 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
195 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
196 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
198 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
199 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
200 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
201 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
202 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
204 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
205 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
206 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
207 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
208 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
209 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
210 0.3.6.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
212 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
213 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
214 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
215 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
218 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
219 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
220 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
221 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
222 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
223 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
225 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
226 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
227 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
228 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
230 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
231 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
232 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
233 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
234 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
235 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
237 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
238 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
239 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
240 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
242 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
243 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
244 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
245 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
246 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
248 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
249 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
250 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
251 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
252 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
254 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
255 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
256 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
257 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
258 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
260 o Code simplification and refactoring:
261 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
262 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
263 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
265 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
266 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
267 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
268 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
269 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
270 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
271 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
272 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
276 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
277 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
278 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
279 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
281 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
284 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
285 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
286 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
287 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
288 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
289 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
290 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
293 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
295 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
296 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
298 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
299 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
300 code from client and service into one function. Closes
303 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
304 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
306 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
307 Resolves ticket 28006.
308 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
309 Resolves ticket 28012.
310 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
311 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
312 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
313 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
317 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
318 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
319 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
320 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
321 to this version, or to a later series.
323 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
324 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
325 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
326 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
327 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
328 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
330 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
331 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
332 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
333 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
334 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
337 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
338 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
339 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
340 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
342 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
343 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
344 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
345 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
346 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
347 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
348 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
349 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
351 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
352 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
353 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
354 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
356 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
357 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
358 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
359 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
360 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
362 o Minor features (geoip):
363 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
364 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
366 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
367 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
368 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
369 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
370 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
373 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
374 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
375 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
376 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
378 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
379 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
380 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
383 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
384 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
385 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
387 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
388 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
389 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
390 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
392 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
393 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
394 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
395 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
397 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
398 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
399 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
400 were the same, the default setting (0) for
401 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
402 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
405 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
406 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
407 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
410 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
411 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
412 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
413 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
414 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
416 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
417 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
418 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
419 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
420 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
422 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
423 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
424 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
425 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
426 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
427 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
429 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
430 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
431 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
434 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
435 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
436 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
438 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
439 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
440 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
442 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
443 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
444 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
447 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
448 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
449 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
450 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
451 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
452 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
453 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
454 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
456 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
457 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
458 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
459 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
461 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
462 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
463 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
464 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
465 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
466 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
467 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
468 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
469 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
470 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
472 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
473 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
474 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
475 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
476 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
477 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
479 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
480 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
481 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
482 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
483 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
485 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
486 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
487 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
490 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
491 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
492 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
493 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
496 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
497 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
498 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
501 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
502 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
503 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
504 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
505 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
508 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
509 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
510 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
511 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
512 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
513 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
514 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
516 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
517 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
518 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
521 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
522 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
523 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
524 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
525 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
528 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
529 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
530 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
531 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
532 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
534 o Minor features (geoip):
535 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
536 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
538 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
539 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
540 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
541 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
542 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
545 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
546 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
547 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
548 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
550 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
551 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
552 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
553 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
554 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
557 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
558 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
559 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
560 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
562 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
563 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
564 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
566 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
567 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
568 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
569 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
571 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
572 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
573 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
574 were the same, the default setting (0) for
575 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
576 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
579 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
580 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
581 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
583 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
584 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
585 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
586 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
587 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
589 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
590 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
591 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
592 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
593 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
594 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
596 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
597 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
598 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
599 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
601 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
602 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
603 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
606 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
607 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
608 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
609 affecting directory caches.
611 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
612 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
613 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
614 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
615 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
616 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
617 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
618 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
620 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
621 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
622 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
623 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
624 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
625 so it will recognize them.
627 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
628 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
629 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
630 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
631 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
632 with the latest stable release.)
634 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
635 since 0.3.4.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
637 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory):
638 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
639 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
640 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
641 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
642 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
643 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
645 o Minor features (compilation):
646 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
647 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
649 o Minor features (geoip):
650 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
651 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
653 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
654 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
655 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
656 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
657 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
660 o Minor features (performance):
661 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
662 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
663 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
664 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
665 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
666 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
667 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
668 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
669 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
670 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
672 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
673 - Fix compilation for Android by adding a missing header to
674 freespace.c. Fixes bug 28974; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
676 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
677 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
678 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
679 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
680 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
682 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
683 - Make sure that test_rebind.py actually obeys its timeout, even
684 when it receives a large number of log messages. Fixes bug 28883;
685 bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
686 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
687 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
688 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
690 o Minor bugfixes (windows services):
691 - Make Tor start correctly as an NT service again: previously it was
692 broken by refactoring. Fixes bug 28612; bugfix on 0.3.5.3-alpha.
694 o Code simplification and refactoring:
695 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
696 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
700 Changes in version 0.3.5.6-rc - 2018-12-18
701 Tor 0.3.5.6-rc fixes numerous small bugs in earlier versions of Tor.
702 It is the first release candidate in the 0.3.5.x series; if no further
703 huge bugs are found, our next release may be the stable 0.3.5.x.
705 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
706 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
707 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
710 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
711 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
712 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
713 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
714 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
716 o Minor features (geoip):
717 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
718 Country database. Closes ticket 28744.
720 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
721 - Add missing dependency on libgdi32.dll for tor-print-ed-signing-
722 cert.exe on Windows. Fixes bug 28485; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
724 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
725 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
726 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
727 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
729 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
730 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
731 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
732 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
733 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
734 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
736 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, boostrap):
737 - Add missing resets of bootstrap tracking state when shutting down
738 (regression caused by ticket 27169). Fixes bug 28524; bugfix
741 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
742 - Use a separate DataDirectory for the test_rebind script.
743 Previously, this script would run using the default DataDirectory,
744 and sometimes fail. Fixes bug 28562; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
745 Patch from Taylor R Campbell.
746 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
747 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
749 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
750 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
751 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
752 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
753 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
754 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
755 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
756 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
758 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
759 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
760 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
761 reported by Keifer Bly.
764 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
765 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
767 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
768 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
769 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
770 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
771 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
772 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
775 o Documentation (onion services):
776 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
777 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
778 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
779 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
780 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
781 process. Closes ticket 28275.
784 Changes in version 0.3.5.5-alpha - 2018-11-16
785 Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier releases,
786 including several that we hope to backport to older release series in
789 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
790 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
791 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
792 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
793 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
796 o Minor features (geoip):
797 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
798 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
800 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
801 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
802 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
803 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
805 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
806 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
807 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
808 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
809 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
812 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
813 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
814 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
815 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
817 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
818 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
819 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
821 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
822 - Make Doxygen work again after the code movement in the 0.3.5
823 source tree. Fixes bug 28435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
825 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
826 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
827 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
830 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
831 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
832 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
835 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
836 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
837 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
839 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
840 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
841 introduction circuits on an NACK. This lets the client decide
842 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
843 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
844 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
845 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
846 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
847 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
848 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
851 Changes in version 0.3.5.4-alpha - 2018-11-08
852 Tor 0.3.5.4-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier versions and
853 improves our continuous integration support. It continues our attempts
854 to stabilize this alpha branch and build it into a foundation for an
855 acceptable long-term-support release.
857 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
858 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
859 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
860 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
861 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
862 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
864 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
865 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
866 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
867 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
868 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
870 o Minor features (continuous integration):
871 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
873 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
874 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
876 o Minor features (Windows, continuous integration):
877 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
878 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
880 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, also in 0.3.4.9):
881 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
882 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
885 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
886 - Fix a pair of missing headers on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 28303; bugfix
887 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
889 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenSolaris):
890 - Fix compilation on OpenSolaris and its descendants by adding a
891 missing include to compat_pthreads.c. Fixes bug 27963; bugfix
894 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
895 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
896 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
899 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
900 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
901 with a different relay, instead of a BUG() warning with a
902 backtrace. Fixes bug 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
904 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
905 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
906 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
907 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
910 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
911 - Fix an assert() when adding a client authorization for the first
912 time and then sending a HUP signal to the service. Before that,
913 Tor would stop abruptly. Fixes bug 27995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
915 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
916 - Unless we have explicitly set HiddenServiceVersion, detect the
917 onion service version and then look for invalid options.
918 Previously, we did the reverse, but that broke existing configs
919 which were pointed to a v2 service and had options like
920 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient set. Fixes bug 28127; bugfix on
921 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
923 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
924 - Make the OPE code (which is used for v3 onion services) run
925 correctly on big-endian platforms. Fixes bug 28115; bugfix
928 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
929 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
932 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
933 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
934 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
935 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
936 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
938 o Minor bugfixes (rust, also in 0.3.4.9):
939 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
940 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
941 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
942 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
943 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
945 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
946 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
947 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
948 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
949 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
951 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
952 - Avoid hangs and race conditions in test_rebind.py. Fixes bug
953 27968; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
955 o Minor bugfixes (testing, also in 0.3.4.9):
956 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
957 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
958 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
959 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
961 o Documentation (onion service manpage):
962 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
963 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
966 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
967 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
968 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
969 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
970 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
972 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
973 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
974 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
976 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
977 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
978 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
979 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
980 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
982 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
983 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
984 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
985 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
986 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
989 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
990 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
991 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
992 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
994 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
995 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
996 Implements ticket 27252.
997 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
998 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
999 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
1000 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
1001 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
1002 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
1003 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
1005 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1006 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
1007 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
1008 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
1010 o Minor features (geoip):
1011 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1012 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
1014 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
1015 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
1016 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
1017 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
1018 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
1020 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
1021 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
1022 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1023 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
1024 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
1027 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1028 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
1029 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
1032 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1033 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
1034 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
1035 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
1036 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1038 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1039 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
1040 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
1042 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1043 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
1044 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1046 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1047 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
1048 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
1049 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1051 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1052 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
1053 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1055 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1056 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
1057 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
1060 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1061 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
1062 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1064 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1065 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
1066 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
1069 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
1070 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
1071 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
1072 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
1073 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1075 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1076 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
1077 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
1078 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
1079 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
1080 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1082 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1083 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
1084 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
1087 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1088 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
1089 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
1090 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
1091 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
1092 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1093 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
1094 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1096 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
1097 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
1098 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
1099 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1101 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1102 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
1103 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
1104 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
1105 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
1107 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1108 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
1109 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1110 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
1111 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
1112 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1114 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1115 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
1116 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
1117 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
1118 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
1119 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
1121 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1122 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
1123 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
1124 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
1127 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1128 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
1129 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
1130 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
1131 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1134 Changes in version 0.3.5.3-alpha - 2018-10-17
1135 Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha fixes several bugs, mostly from previous 0.3.5.x
1136 versions. One important fix for relays addresses a problem with rate-
1137 limiting code from back in 0.3.4.x: If the fix works out, we'll be
1138 backporting it soon. This release is still an alpha, but we hope it's
1139 getting closer and closer to stability.
1141 o Major features (onion services):
1142 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
1143 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
1144 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
1145 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
1146 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
1148 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
1149 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
1150 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1152 o Major bugfixes (initialization, crash):
1153 - Fix an assertion crash that would stop Tor from starting up if it
1154 tried to activate a periodic event too early. Fixes bug 27861;
1155 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1157 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap):
1158 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
1159 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
1160 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
1161 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1163 o Major bugfixes (relay):
1164 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
1165 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
1166 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
1167 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
1170 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1171 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
1172 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
1173 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
1174 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
1175 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
1178 o Minor features (geoip):
1179 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1180 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
1182 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
1183 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
1184 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
1187 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1188 - Compile the ed25519-donna code with a correct declaration of
1189 crypto_strongest_rand(). Previously, we built it with one type,
1190 but linked it against another in the unit tests, which caused
1191 compilation failures with LTO enabled. This could have caused
1192 other undefined behavior in the tests. Fixes bug 27728; bugfix
1195 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, netbsd):
1196 - Add a missing include back into procmon.c. Fixes bug 27990; bugfix
1199 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, appveyor):
1200 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
1201 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
1202 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
1203 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1205 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
1206 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
1207 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
1208 were the same, the default setting (0) for
1209 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
1210 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
1213 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
1214 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
1215 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1217 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
1218 - In retry_listeners_ports(), make sure that we're removing a member
1219 of old_conns smartlist at most once. Fixes bug 27808; bugfix
1221 - Refrain from attempting socket rebinding when old and new
1222 listeners are in different address families. Fixes bug 27928;
1223 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1225 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
1226 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
1227 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
1229 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
1230 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
1231 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
1232 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1233 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
1234 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
1235 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
1236 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
1237 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1239 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
1240 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
1241 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
1244 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1245 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
1246 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
1247 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
1249 - In test_rebind.py, check if the Python version is in the supported
1250 range. Fixes bug 27675; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1252 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1253 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
1254 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
1255 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
1256 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
1257 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
1258 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
1259 Closes ticket 27814.
1260 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
1261 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
1262 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
1263 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
1264 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
1265 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
1268 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
1269 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
1270 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
1271 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
1274 Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21
1275 Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one
1276 that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay
1277 or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade.
1279 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
1280 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
1281 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
1282 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
1283 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
1284 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
1286 o Major bugfixes (socket accounting):
1287 - In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when
1288 it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would
1289 count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that
1290 we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix
1293 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
1294 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
1295 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
1296 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
1297 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
1299 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
1300 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
1301 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1302 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
1303 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
1306 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
1307 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
1308 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
1309 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
1310 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1312 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
1313 - Fix an unlikely memory leak when trying to read a private key from
1314 a ridiculously large file. Fixes bug 27764; bugfix on
1315 0.3.5.1-alpha. This is CID 1439488.
1317 o Minor bugfixes (NSS):
1318 - Correctly detect failure to open a dummy TCP socket when stealing
1319 ownership of an fd from the NSS layer. Fixes bug 27782; bugfix
1322 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
1323 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
1324 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
1325 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1327 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1328 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
1329 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
1330 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1332 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1333 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
1334 Closes ticket 27799.
1337 Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18
1338 Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds
1339 client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves
1340 bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional
1341 support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more.
1343 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
1344 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
1345 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
1346 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
1347 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
1348 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
1350 o Major features (relay, UI change):
1351 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
1352 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
1353 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
1354 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
1355 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1356 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
1357 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
1359 o Major features (bootstrap):
1360 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
1361 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
1362 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
1363 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
1365 o Major features (new code layout):
1366 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
1367 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
1368 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
1369 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
1370 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
1371 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
1372 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
1374 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
1375 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
1376 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
1378 o Major features (onion services v3):
1379 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
1380 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
1381 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
1382 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
1383 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
1384 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
1385 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
1386 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
1387 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
1388 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
1389 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
1390 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
1391 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
1393 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
1394 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
1395 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
1396 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
1397 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
1398 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
1399 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
1401 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
1402 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
1403 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
1404 (if present), and restart Tor.
1406 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
1407 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
1408 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
1409 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
1412 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
1413 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
1414 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
1415 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1417 o Minor features (admin tools):
1418 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
1419 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
1422 o Minor features (build):
1423 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
1424 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
1425 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
1426 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
1428 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
1429 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
1430 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
1431 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
1432 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
1434 o Minor features (code layout):
1435 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
1436 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
1437 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
1438 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
1441 o Minor features (compilation):
1442 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
1443 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
1444 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
1445 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
1448 o Minor features (config):
1449 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
1452 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1453 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
1454 Implements ticket 27252.
1455 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
1456 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
1457 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
1458 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
1459 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
1460 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
1461 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
1462 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
1463 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
1465 o Minor features (controller):
1466 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
1467 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
1468 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
1469 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
1470 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
1471 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
1472 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
1473 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
1475 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
1476 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
1477 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
1478 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
1480 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
1481 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
1482 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
1483 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1485 o Minor features (development):
1486 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
1487 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
1489 o Minor features (directory authority):
1490 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
1491 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
1492 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
1493 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
1495 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
1496 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
1499 o Minor features (embedding API):
1500 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
1501 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
1502 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
1503 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
1504 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
1505 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
1508 o Minor features (geoip):
1509 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1510 Country database. Closes ticket 27631.
1512 o Minor features (memory management):
1513 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
1514 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
1517 o Minor features (memory usage):
1518 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
1519 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
1520 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
1522 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
1523 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
1524 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
1526 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
1527 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
1528 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
1529 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
1531 o Minor features (testing):
1532 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
1533 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
1535 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
1536 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
1537 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
1539 o Minor features (UI):
1540 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
1541 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
1542 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
1543 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
1544 Closes ticket 26703.
1546 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
1547 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
1548 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
1549 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1551 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
1552 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
1553 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
1554 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
1555 - Use time_t for all values in
1556 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
1557 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
1558 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1560 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
1561 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
1562 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
1563 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
1564 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
1567 o Minor bugfixes (client, reachableaddresses):
1568 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
1569 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
1570 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
1571 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
1572 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1574 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
1575 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
1576 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
1577 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
1579 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
1580 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
1581 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
1582 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
1583 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
1585 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
1586 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
1587 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1589 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1590 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
1591 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
1592 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
1593 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
1596 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
1597 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
1598 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1600 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
1601 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
1602 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
1605 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
1606 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
1607 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
1608 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
1609 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1611 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1612 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
1613 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
1614 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
1615 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
1616 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
1617 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
1619 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
1620 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
1621 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
1622 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
1623 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1625 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
1626 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
1627 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1629 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
1630 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
1631 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
1632 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
1635 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
1636 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
1637 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
1640 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
1641 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
1642 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
1643 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
1644 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
1646 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
1647 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
1648 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
1649 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
1651 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
1652 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
1653 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
1654 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
1656 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
1657 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
1658 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
1659 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
1660 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
1661 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1662 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1663 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
1664 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
1665 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1667 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protover):
1668 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
1669 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
1670 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
1671 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
1672 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1673 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
1674 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1676 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1677 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
1678 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1679 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
1680 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
1681 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
1682 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
1683 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
1684 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
1685 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
1686 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1687 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
1688 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
1690 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1691 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
1692 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
1693 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
1694 directory within the top-level src directory.
1695 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
1696 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
1697 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
1698 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
1699 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
1700 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
1701 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
1702 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
1703 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
1704 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
1705 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
1706 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
1707 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
1708 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
1709 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
1710 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
1711 Closes ticket 21349.
1712 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
1713 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
1714 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
1715 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
1716 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
1717 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
1718 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
1720 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
1721 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
1722 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
1725 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
1726 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
1727 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
1728 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
1729 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
1732 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
1733 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
1734 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
1735 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
1736 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
1737 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
1738 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
1739 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
1740 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
1741 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
1742 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
1743 Closes ticket 26367.
1746 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
1747 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
1749 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1750 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
1751 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
1752 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
1754 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1755 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
1757 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
1758 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
1759 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
1760 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
1762 o Minor features (geoip):
1763 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1764 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
1766 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1767 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
1768 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
1769 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1771 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1772 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
1773 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
1774 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
1775 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
1776 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
1777 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
1778 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
1781 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1782 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
1783 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
1784 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1786 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1787 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
1788 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
1789 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
1791 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1792 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
1793 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
1794 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1796 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1797 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
1798 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
1799 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
1800 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
1802 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1803 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
1804 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
1807 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1808 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
1809 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
1810 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
1811 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
1813 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1814 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
1815 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
1818 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1819 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
1820 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
1821 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1823 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1824 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
1825 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1827 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1828 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
1829 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
1832 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1833 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
1834 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
1835 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
1836 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1838 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1839 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
1840 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1843 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
1844 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
1846 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1847 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
1848 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
1849 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
1851 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1852 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
1854 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
1855 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
1856 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
1857 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
1859 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1860 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
1863 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1864 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
1865 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
1866 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
1868 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1869 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
1870 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
1871 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
1873 o Minor features (geoip):
1874 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1875 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
1877 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1878 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
1879 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
1880 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1881 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
1882 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
1883 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
1885 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1886 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
1887 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
1888 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
1889 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
1890 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
1891 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
1892 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
1895 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1896 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
1897 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
1898 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1900 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1901 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
1902 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
1903 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
1905 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1906 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1907 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
1908 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
1909 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1911 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1912 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
1913 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
1914 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
1915 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
1917 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1918 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
1919 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
1922 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1923 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
1924 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
1925 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
1926 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
1928 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1929 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
1930 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
1933 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1934 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
1935 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
1938 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1939 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
1940 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
1943 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1944 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
1946 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
1947 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
1948 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
1949 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1951 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1952 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
1953 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
1954 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1956 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1957 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
1958 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1960 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1961 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
1962 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
1963 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
1964 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1965 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
1966 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
1969 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
1970 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
1971 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
1972 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
1973 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1975 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1976 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
1977 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
1978 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
1979 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1981 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1982 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
1983 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1986 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
1987 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
1989 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1990 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
1991 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
1992 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
1994 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1995 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
1996 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
1997 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
1999 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2000 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
2001 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
2003 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
2004 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
2005 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
2006 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
2008 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2009 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
2012 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2013 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
2014 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
2015 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
2017 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2018 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
2019 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
2020 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
2022 o Minor features (geoip):
2023 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2024 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
2026 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2027 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
2028 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
2029 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2030 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
2031 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
2032 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
2034 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2035 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
2036 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
2037 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
2038 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
2039 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
2040 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
2041 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
2044 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2045 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
2046 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
2047 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2049 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2050 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
2051 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
2052 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
2054 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2055 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2056 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
2057 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
2058 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2060 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2061 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
2062 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
2063 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
2064 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
2066 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2067 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
2068 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
2071 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2072 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
2073 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
2074 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2076 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2077 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
2078 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
2079 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
2080 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
2082 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2083 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
2084 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
2087 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2088 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
2089 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
2092 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2093 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
2094 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
2097 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2098 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
2099 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
2100 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2102 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2103 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
2104 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
2107 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2108 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
2110 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
2111 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
2112 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
2113 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
2114 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2115 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
2116 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
2118 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
2119 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2120 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
2121 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
2122 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
2124 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2125 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
2126 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
2127 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2129 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2130 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
2131 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2133 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2134 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
2135 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
2136 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
2137 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2138 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
2139 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
2142 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2143 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
2144 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
2145 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
2146 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2148 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2149 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
2150 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
2151 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
2152 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
2154 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2155 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
2156 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
2159 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
2160 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
2161 compilation and portability fixes.
2163 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
2164 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
2165 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
2166 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
2167 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
2168 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
2169 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
2170 our anti-denial-of-service code.
2172 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes
2173 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2175 o Minor features (compatibility):
2176 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
2177 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
2178 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
2180 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2181 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
2182 Implements ticket 27449.
2183 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
2184 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
2187 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2188 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
2189 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
2190 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
2191 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
2192 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
2193 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
2194 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
2197 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
2198 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of
2199 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default.
2200 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc
2201 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug
2202 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2203 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
2204 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
2205 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
2206 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
2208 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2209 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
2210 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
2213 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
2214 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
2215 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
2216 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
2217 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2218 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
2219 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
2222 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24
2223 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
2224 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
2225 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
2226 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
2228 o Minor features (bug workaround):
2229 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
2230 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
2231 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
2233 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2234 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
2235 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
2237 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
2238 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
2239 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
2240 Implements ticket 27275.
2241 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
2242 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
2244 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
2245 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
2248 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2249 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
2250 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
2251 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
2253 o Minor features (geoip):
2254 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2255 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
2257 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
2258 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
2259 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
2260 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2262 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
2263 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and
2264 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits.
2265 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master.
2266 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2267 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
2268 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
2269 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2271 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
2272 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
2273 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
2274 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2276 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2277 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
2278 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
2279 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
2280 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
2282 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2283 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
2284 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
2287 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2288 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
2289 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
2292 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
2293 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
2295 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
2296 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
2297 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
2298 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
2299 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2300 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
2301 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
2303 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
2304 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2305 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
2306 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
2307 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
2309 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
2310 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
2311 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
2312 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
2313 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2315 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
2316 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
2317 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
2318 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
2319 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2321 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
2322 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
2323 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
2326 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06
2327 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
2328 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
2329 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
2330 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
2332 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler):
2333 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop
2334 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run
2335 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example)
2336 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003;
2337 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2339 o Minor features (compilation):
2340 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
2341 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
2343 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
2344 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
2345 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2346 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
2347 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
2348 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
2350 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
2351 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
2352 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
2353 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
2355 o Minor features (controller):
2356 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
2357 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
2358 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
2360 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
2361 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
2362 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
2365 o Minor features (geoip):
2366 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2367 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
2369 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
2370 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
2372 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2373 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests
2374 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
2375 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
2376 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
2377 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
2378 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
2380 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2381 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
2382 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2383 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
2384 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
2385 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
2387 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
2388 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
2389 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
2392 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
2393 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
2394 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
2396 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2397 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
2398 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
2401 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2402 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug
2403 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2404 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
2405 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
2406 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2408 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
2409 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
2410 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
2411 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2413 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2414 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
2415 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2417 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
2418 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure
2419 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python
2420 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this.
2421 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and
2422 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py).
2424 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
2425 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
2426 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
2427 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
2428 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
2431 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13
2432 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
2433 bridge relays should upgrade.
2435 o Directory authority changes:
2436 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
2437 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
2438 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
2441 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
2442 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
2443 bridge relays should upgrade.
2445 o Directory authority changes:
2446 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
2447 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
2448 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
2451 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
2452 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
2453 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
2456 o Directory authority changes:
2457 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
2458 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
2459 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
2461 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
2462 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
2463 Closes ticket 26343.
2465 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2466 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
2467 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
2468 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
2469 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2471 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2472 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
2473 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
2475 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
2476 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
2477 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
2478 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
2480 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
2481 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
2482 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
2484 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2485 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
2486 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
2487 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
2488 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
2489 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
2491 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
2492 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
2493 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
2494 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
2496 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2497 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
2498 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
2501 o Minor features (geoip):
2502 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2503 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
2505 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2506 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
2507 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
2508 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
2509 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2511 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2512 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
2513 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2515 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2516 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
2517 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
2518 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
2519 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2520 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
2521 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
2522 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
2525 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2526 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
2527 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
2528 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
2529 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
2530 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
2532 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
2533 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
2534 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
2535 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
2536 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
2538 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2539 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
2540 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
2541 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
2542 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
2544 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2545 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
2546 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
2549 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2550 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
2551 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2553 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
2554 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
2555 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
2556 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
2558 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2559 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
2560 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2561 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
2562 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
2563 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
2564 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2566 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
2567 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
2568 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
2569 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
2572 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2573 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
2574 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2576 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2577 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
2578 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2580 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
2581 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
2582 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
2583 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
2586 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
2587 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
2588 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
2589 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
2591 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2592 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
2593 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
2595 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
2596 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
2597 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
2600 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
2601 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
2602 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
2605 o Directory authority changes:
2606 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
2607 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
2608 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
2610 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
2611 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
2612 Closes ticket 26343.
2614 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2615 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
2616 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
2617 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
2618 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2620 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
2621 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
2622 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
2623 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
2625 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2626 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
2627 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
2628 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
2629 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
2630 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
2632 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2633 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
2634 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
2637 o Minor features (geoip):
2638 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2639 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
2641 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2642 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
2643 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
2644 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
2645 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2647 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2648 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
2649 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2651 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2652 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
2653 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
2654 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
2657 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2658 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
2659 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
2660 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
2661 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
2662 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
2664 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2665 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
2666 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
2667 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
2668 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
2670 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2671 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
2672 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
2675 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2676 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
2677 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2679 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
2680 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
2681 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
2682 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
2684 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2685 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
2686 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
2688 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
2689 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
2690 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
2693 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
2694 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
2695 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
2696 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
2697 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
2699 o Minor features (compilation):
2700 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
2701 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
2704 o Minor features (geoip):
2705 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2706 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
2708 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
2709 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
2711 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2712 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
2713 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
2714 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
2715 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
2717 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
2718 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
2719 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2720 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
2721 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
2722 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
2724 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
2725 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
2726 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
2729 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
2730 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
2731 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
2733 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
2734 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
2735 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
2736 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
2737 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2738 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
2739 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
2740 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
2744 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
2745 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
2746 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
2748 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
2749 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
2750 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
2751 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
2753 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
2754 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
2755 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
2758 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2759 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
2760 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
2763 o Minor features (geoip):
2764 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2765 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
2767 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
2768 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
2769 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
2770 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
2772 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2773 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
2774 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
2775 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
2776 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
2779 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2780 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
2781 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
2782 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
2783 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
2785 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2786 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
2787 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
2788 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
2790 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2791 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
2792 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
2794 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
2795 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
2796 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
2797 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
2800 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2801 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
2802 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
2803 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2805 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2806 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
2807 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
2808 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
2809 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2810 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
2811 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
2812 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
2816 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26
2817 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including
2818 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities.
2820 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
2821 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
2822 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
2823 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
2825 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing):
2826 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
2827 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
2830 o Minor feature (directory authorities):
2831 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
2832 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
2833 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
2835 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic):
2836 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
2837 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
2838 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
2840 o Minor features (unit tests):
2841 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
2842 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
2843 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
2846 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2847 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
2848 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
2849 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2850 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the
2851 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added
2852 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2853 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
2854 Closes ticket 26245.
2856 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2857 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
2858 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
2859 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
2860 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
2861 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2863 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2864 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
2865 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
2866 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
2869 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2870 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes
2871 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2872 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from
2873 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with
2874 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read
2875 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw,
2876 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's
2877 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2878 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in
2879 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests
2880 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable
2881 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile
2882 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2885 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
2886 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
2887 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
2889 o Directory authority changes:
2890 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
2891 Closes ticket 26343.
2893 o Minor features (geoip):
2894 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2895 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
2897 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2898 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
2899 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
2900 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
2901 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
2902 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
2904 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2905 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
2906 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2908 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2909 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
2910 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
2911 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
2912 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2914 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2915 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
2916 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2918 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2919 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
2920 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
2921 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
2922 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
2923 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
2926 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
2927 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
2928 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
2930 o Directory authority changes:
2931 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
2932 Closes ticket 26343.
2934 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
2935 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
2936 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
2937 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
2938 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
2940 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2941 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
2942 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
2943 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
2945 o Minor features (geoip):
2946 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2947 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
2949 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
2950 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
2951 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
2952 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
2953 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
2954 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
2956 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2957 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
2958 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2959 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
2960 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2961 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
2962 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
2963 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2965 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
2966 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
2967 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
2968 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
2971 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2972 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
2973 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
2974 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
2975 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2977 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
2978 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
2979 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2981 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2982 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
2983 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2985 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
2986 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
2987 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
2988 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
2992 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
2993 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
2994 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2996 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
2997 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
2998 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
2999 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
3000 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
3001 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
3003 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
3004 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
3006 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3007 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
3008 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
3009 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
3010 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3012 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
3013 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
3014 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
3015 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
3016 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
3018 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3019 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
3020 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
3021 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3023 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3024 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
3025 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
3026 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3028 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3029 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
3030 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
3032 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3033 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
3034 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
3037 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3038 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
3039 Closes ticket 26006.
3041 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3042 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
3043 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
3044 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
3045 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
3046 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
3048 o Minor features (geoip):
3049 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
3050 database. Closes ticket 26104.
3052 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3053 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
3054 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
3057 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3058 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
3059 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
3060 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
3061 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3063 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3064 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
3065 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
3066 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
3067 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
3070 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3071 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
3072 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3074 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3075 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
3076 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3077 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
3078 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
3079 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
3080 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3082 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3083 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
3084 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3086 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3087 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
3088 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
3091 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
3092 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
3093 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
3094 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
3095 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
3096 other small features and bugfixes.
3098 o New system requirements:
3099 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
3100 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
3101 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
3102 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
3104 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
3105 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
3106 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
3107 To disable the module, the configure option
3108 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
3109 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
3111 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
3112 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
3113 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
3114 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
3115 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
3116 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
3117 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
3118 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
3119 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
3120 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
3121 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket
3123 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
3124 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
3125 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
3126 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
3127 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
3128 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
3129 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
3130 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
3131 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
3132 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
3133 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
3134 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
3135 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
3136 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
3137 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
3138 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
3139 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
3140 Tor's uptime (26009).
3142 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
3143 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
3144 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
3145 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
3146 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3148 o Major bugfixes (crash):
3149 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
3150 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
3151 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3153 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
3154 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
3155 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
3156 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3158 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
3159 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
3160 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
3162 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
3163 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
3164 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
3165 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
3166 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
3167 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
3168 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
3169 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
3170 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
3171 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
3172 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
3173 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
3174 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
3175 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3177 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
3178 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
3179 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
3182 o Minor features (accounting):
3183 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
3184 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
3185 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
3186 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
3188 o Minor features (code quality):
3189 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
3190 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
3191 Closes ticket 25024.
3193 o Minor features (compatibility):
3194 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
3195 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
3196 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
3197 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
3198 Closes ticket 26006.
3200 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
3201 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
3202 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
3203 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
3204 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
3205 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
3207 o Minor features (configuration):
3208 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
3209 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
3210 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
3211 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
3212 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
3214 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3215 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
3216 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
3217 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
3218 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
3219 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
3221 o Minor features (control port):
3222 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
3223 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
3224 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
3225 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3226 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
3227 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
3228 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
3229 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
3230 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
3231 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
3233 o Minor features (directory authority):
3234 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
3235 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
3236 Closes ticket 23909.
3238 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
3239 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
3240 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
3241 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
3243 o Minor features (entry guards):
3244 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
3245 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
3247 o Minor features (geoip):
3248 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
3249 database. Closes ticket 26104.
3251 o Minor features (performance):
3252 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
3253 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
3254 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
3255 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
3257 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
3258 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
3260 o Minor features (testing):
3261 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
3262 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
3264 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
3265 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
3266 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
3267 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
3268 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
3269 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
3271 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
3272 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
3273 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
3274 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
3275 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
3277 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
3278 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
3279 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
3280 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
3281 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
3282 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
3284 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
3285 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
3286 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
3287 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
3289 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
3290 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
3291 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
3292 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
3293 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
3296 o Minor bugfixes (client):
3297 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
3298 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
3301 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
3302 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
3303 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3304 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
3305 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
3307 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
3308 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
3309 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
3310 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
3311 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3313 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3314 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
3315 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
3316 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
3317 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3319 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
3320 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
3321 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
3322 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
3323 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3325 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
3326 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
3327 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3328 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
3329 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
3330 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
3333 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
3334 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
3335 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
3336 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
3337 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
3340 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
3341 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
3342 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
3343 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
3344 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
3345 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
3346 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
3348 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3349 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
3350 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3352 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
3353 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
3354 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3355 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
3356 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
3357 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
3358 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3360 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
3361 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
3362 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
3363 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
3364 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
3365 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
3367 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
3368 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
3369 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
3372 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
3373 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
3374 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
3375 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3377 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
3378 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
3379 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
3380 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
3381 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
3382 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
3383 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
3385 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
3386 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
3387 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3389 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
3390 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
3391 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
3392 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3394 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3395 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
3396 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
3397 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
3398 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
3399 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3400 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
3401 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
3403 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
3404 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
3405 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3406 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
3407 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
3408 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
3409 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
3411 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
3412 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
3413 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
3414 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
3415 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
3417 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
3418 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
3419 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
3422 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
3423 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
3424 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
3425 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
3426 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
3427 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3429 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3430 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
3431 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
3432 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3433 - We remove the PortForwsrding and PortForwardingHelper options,
3434 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
3435 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
3436 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
3438 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
3439 confusing we renamed some functions and
3440 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
3441 router_should_check_reachability() and
3442 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
3443 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
3444 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
3445 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
3446 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
3448 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
3449 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
3451 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
3452 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
3453 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3454 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
3455 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
3456 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
3457 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
3458 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
3459 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
3460 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
3461 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
3462 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
3463 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
3464 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
3465 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
3466 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3467 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
3468 Closes ticket 25766.
3469 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
3470 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
3471 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
3472 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
3473 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
3474 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
3475 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
3476 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
3477 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
3478 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
3479 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3480 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
3481 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
3482 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
3484 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
3485 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
3486 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
3487 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
3488 before. Closes ticket 26016.
3489 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
3490 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
3491 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
3492 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
3494 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
3495 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
3496 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
3497 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3499 o Deprecated features:
3500 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
3501 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
3502 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
3503 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
3504 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
3505 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
3508 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
3509 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
3512 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
3513 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
3514 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
3515 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
3516 24378 and proposal 290.
3517 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
3518 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
3519 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
3520 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
3521 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
3522 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
3523 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
3524 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
3525 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
3526 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
3527 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
3528 their local router. Closes 25409.
3529 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
3530 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
3531 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
3532 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
3533 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
3534 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
3535 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
3536 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
3537 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
3538 Closes ticket 25268.
3541 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
3542 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
3543 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
3545 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
3546 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
3547 be nearly identical to this one.
3549 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
3550 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
3551 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
3552 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
3553 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
3554 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3556 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
3557 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
3558 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
3559 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
3560 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
3561 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
3562 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
3564 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
3565 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
3566 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
3568 o Minor features (config options):
3569 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
3570 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
3571 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
3574 o Minor features (geoip):
3575 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3576 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
3578 o Minor bugfixes (client):
3579 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
3580 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
3581 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
3582 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
3583 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
3585 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3586 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
3587 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
3588 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3590 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
3591 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
3592 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
3593 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3594 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
3595 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
3596 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3598 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
3599 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
3600 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
3601 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
3602 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
3603 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
3604 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3606 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
3607 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
3608 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
3609 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
3610 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
3612 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3613 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
3614 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
3616 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
3617 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
3618 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
3620 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3621 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
3622 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
3624 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
3625 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
3626 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
3630 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
3631 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
3632 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
3633 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
3635 o New system requirements:
3636 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
3637 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
3639 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
3640 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
3641 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
3642 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
3643 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
3645 o Minor features (geoip):
3646 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3647 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
3649 o Minor features (log messages):
3650 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
3651 information about memory usage from the different compression
3652 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
3654 o Minor features (sandbox):
3655 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
3656 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
3657 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
3659 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
3660 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
3661 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
3662 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
3664 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
3665 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
3666 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
3668 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3669 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
3670 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
3671 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
3673 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
3674 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
3675 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
3676 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3678 o Major bugfixes (networking):
3679 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
3680 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
3681 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
3683 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
3684 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
3685 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
3687 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
3688 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
3689 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
3690 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
3691 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
3692 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3694 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3695 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
3696 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
3697 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
3699 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
3700 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
3701 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
3702 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
3704 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
3705 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
3706 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
3707 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
3710 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
3711 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
3712 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
3713 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
3714 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3716 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3717 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
3718 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
3722 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
3724 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
3725 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
3728 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
3729 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
3732 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
3733 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
3735 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
3736 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
3738 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
3741 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
3742 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
3743 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
3745 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
3746 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
3747 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
3748 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
3751 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3752 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
3753 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
3754 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
3757 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3758 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
3759 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
3760 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
3761 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
3762 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
3763 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
3764 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
3765 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
3766 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
3767 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
3768 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
3769 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
3771 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
3772 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
3773 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
3775 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
3776 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
3777 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
3778 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
3779 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
3780 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
3781 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
3783 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3784 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
3785 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3787 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
3788 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
3789 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
3790 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
3791 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
3792 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
3793 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3795 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3796 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
3797 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
3798 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
3800 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3801 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
3802 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
3803 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
3805 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3806 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
3807 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
3808 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
3809 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
3810 Closes ticket 24978.
3812 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
3813 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
3814 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
3815 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
3816 information. Closes ticket 24801.
3817 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
3818 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
3819 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
3820 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
3822 o Minor features (geoip):
3823 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3826 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3827 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
3828 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
3829 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
3830 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
3832 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3833 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
3834 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
3835 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
3836 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
3838 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
3839 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
3840 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
3841 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
3842 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
3845 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
3846 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
3847 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
3848 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
3849 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
3850 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
3851 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
3852 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
3853 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
3854 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
3855 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
3858 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
3859 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
3860 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
3862 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
3863 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
3864 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
3867 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3868 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
3869 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
3870 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
3871 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
3872 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
3873 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
3875 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
3876 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
3877 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3878 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
3879 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
3880 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
3881 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
3882 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
3883 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
3886 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
3887 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
3888 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
3889 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
3890 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
3891 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3893 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3894 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
3895 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
3896 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3898 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
3899 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
3900 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
3901 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
3902 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
3905 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
3906 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
3907 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
3908 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
3909 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
3910 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3912 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
3913 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
3914 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
3915 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
3916 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
3917 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
3918 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
3919 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
3920 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
3921 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3922 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
3923 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
3925 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
3926 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
3927 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
3928 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3930 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
3931 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
3932 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
3933 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3935 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
3936 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
3937 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
3938 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
3941 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
3942 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
3943 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
3944 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
3945 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
3947 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3948 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
3950 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
3951 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3953 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3954 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
3955 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
3958 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
3959 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
3962 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
3963 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
3965 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
3966 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
3968 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
3971 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
3972 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
3973 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
3975 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3976 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
3977 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
3978 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
3981 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
3982 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
3983 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
3984 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
3985 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
3986 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
3987 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
3988 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
3989 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
3990 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
3991 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
3992 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
3993 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
3995 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
3996 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
3997 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
3998 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
3999 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
4000 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
4001 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
4002 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
4003 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
4005 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
4006 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
4007 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
4008 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
4009 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
4010 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
4011 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
4013 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
4014 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
4015 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
4016 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
4018 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
4019 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
4020 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
4021 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
4022 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
4023 Closes ticket 24978.
4025 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
4026 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
4027 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
4028 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
4030 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
4031 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
4032 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
4033 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
4034 information. Closes ticket 24801.
4035 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
4036 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
4037 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
4038 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
4040 o Minor features (geoip):
4041 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4044 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4045 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
4046 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
4048 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
4049 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
4050 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
4051 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
4052 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
4054 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
4055 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
4056 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
4057 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
4058 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
4060 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
4061 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
4062 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
4063 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
4064 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
4067 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4068 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
4069 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
4071 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4072 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
4073 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
4076 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4077 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
4078 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
4079 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
4080 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
4081 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
4082 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
4084 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
4085 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
4086 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
4087 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
4088 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
4091 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
4092 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
4093 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
4094 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
4095 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
4096 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4098 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
4099 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
4100 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
4101 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
4103 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
4104 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
4105 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
4106 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
4107 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
4108 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
4109 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
4110 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
4111 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
4112 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
4113 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
4114 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
4116 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
4117 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
4118 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
4119 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
4122 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4123 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
4124 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
4125 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
4126 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
4128 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4129 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
4131 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
4132 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
4135 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
4136 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
4137 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
4140 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
4141 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
4143 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
4144 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
4145 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
4146 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
4147 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
4148 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
4151 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
4152 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
4154 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
4157 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
4158 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
4159 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
4160 the DoS mitigations.)
4162 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4163 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
4164 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
4165 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
4168 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4169 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
4170 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
4171 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4173 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4174 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
4175 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
4176 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
4177 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
4178 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
4179 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
4180 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
4181 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
4182 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
4183 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
4184 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
4185 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
4187 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
4188 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
4189 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
4190 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
4191 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
4192 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
4193 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
4194 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
4195 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
4196 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
4197 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4199 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4200 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
4201 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4203 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
4204 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
4205 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
4206 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
4207 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
4208 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
4209 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4211 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4212 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
4213 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
4214 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4216 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4217 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
4218 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
4219 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
4221 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4222 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
4223 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
4224 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
4225 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
4226 Closes ticket 24978.
4228 o Minor features (geoip):
4229 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4232 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4233 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
4234 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
4237 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4238 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
4239 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
4240 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
4241 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
4243 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4244 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
4245 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
4246 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
4247 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
4248 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
4249 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
4251 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4252 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
4253 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
4254 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
4255 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
4257 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
4258 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
4259 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
4260 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4262 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4263 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
4264 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
4265 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
4266 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4268 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4269 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
4270 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
4271 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4273 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
4274 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
4275 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
4276 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4278 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
4279 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
4280 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
4281 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
4283 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4284 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
4286 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
4287 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
4289 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
4290 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
4291 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
4293 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4294 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
4295 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
4296 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
4297 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4299 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4300 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
4301 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
4303 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
4304 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
4305 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
4309 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
4310 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
4311 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
4312 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
4314 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
4315 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
4316 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
4317 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
4318 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
4319 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4321 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
4324 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
4325 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
4326 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
4327 the DoS mitigations.)
4329 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
4330 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
4331 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
4332 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
4335 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
4336 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
4337 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
4338 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
4339 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
4340 Closes ticket 24978.
4342 o Minor features (logging):
4343 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
4344 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
4346 o Minor features (testing):
4347 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
4350 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
4351 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
4352 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
4353 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
4354 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
4355 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
4356 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
4358 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
4359 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
4360 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
4361 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4362 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
4363 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
4366 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
4367 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
4368 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
4369 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
4371 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
4372 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
4373 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
4374 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
4375 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
4378 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
4379 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
4381 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
4382 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
4384 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
4385 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
4386 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4387 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
4389 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4390 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
4391 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
4394 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
4395 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
4396 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
4397 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
4398 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
4399 it to older supported release series.
4401 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
4402 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
4403 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
4404 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
4405 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
4406 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
4407 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
4408 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
4409 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
4410 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
4411 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
4412 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
4413 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
4415 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
4416 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
4417 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
4418 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
4419 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
4420 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
4421 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
4422 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4424 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
4425 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
4426 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4428 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
4429 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
4430 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
4431 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4433 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
4434 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
4435 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
4436 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
4438 o Minor features (directory authority):
4439 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
4440 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
4442 o Minor features (geoip):
4443 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4446 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
4447 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
4448 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
4451 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
4452 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
4453 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
4454 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
4455 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
4457 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
4458 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
4459 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
4460 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
4461 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
4463 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
4464 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
4465 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
4466 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
4468 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
4469 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
4470 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
4471 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
4472 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
4474 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
4475 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
4476 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
4477 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4479 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4480 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
4481 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
4482 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4483 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
4484 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
4485 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
4487 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4488 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
4489 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
4490 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
4491 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4492 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
4493 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
4494 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
4496 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
4497 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
4498 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
4499 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
4500 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
4501 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
4502 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
4504 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
4505 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
4506 would call the Rust implementation of
4507 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
4508 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
4509 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
4510 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
4511 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4513 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
4514 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
4515 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
4518 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
4519 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
4520 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
4521 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
4522 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
4523 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
4525 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
4526 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
4527 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
4528 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
4529 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4531 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4532 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
4534 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
4535 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
4536 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
4539 o Documentation (man page):
4540 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
4541 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
4545 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
4546 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
4547 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
4548 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
4549 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
4550 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
4553 o Major features (embedding):
4554 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
4555 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
4556 Closes ticket 23684.
4557 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
4558 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
4559 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
4560 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
4561 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
4562 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
4564 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
4565 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
4566 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
4567 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
4568 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
4569 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
4570 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
4571 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
4572 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
4573 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
4574 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
4577 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
4578 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
4579 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
4580 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
4581 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
4582 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
4583 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
4585 o Major features (onion services):
4586 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
4587 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
4588 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
4589 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
4590 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
4593 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
4594 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
4595 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
4596 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
4597 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
4598 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
4599 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
4600 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
4602 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
4603 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
4604 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
4605 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
4606 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
4608 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
4609 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
4610 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
4611 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
4612 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
4613 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
4614 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4616 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
4617 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
4618 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
4619 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
4620 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
4621 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
4622 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
4623 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
4624 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
4625 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
4626 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4628 o Major bugfixes (relays):
4629 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
4630 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
4631 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
4632 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
4633 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
4634 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4636 o Minor feature (IPv6):
4637 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
4638 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
4639 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
4640 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
4641 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
4642 Implements ticket 23827.
4644 o Minor features (cleanup):
4645 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
4646 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
4648 o Minor features (defensive programming):
4649 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
4650 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
4651 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
4652 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
4653 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
4654 once. Part of ticket 24337.
4655 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
4656 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
4657 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
4659 o Minor features (embedding):
4660 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
4661 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
4662 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
4663 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
4664 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
4665 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
4666 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
4667 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
4668 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
4669 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
4670 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
4671 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
4672 Closes ticket 23848.
4673 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
4674 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
4675 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
4677 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
4678 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
4679 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
4680 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
4681 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
4682 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
4683 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
4684 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
4687 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
4688 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
4689 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
4690 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
4691 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
4692 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
4693 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
4695 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
4696 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
4697 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
4698 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
4699 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
4700 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
4701 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
4702 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
4703 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
4704 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
4705 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
4706 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
4708 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
4709 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
4710 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
4712 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
4713 Implements ticket 24791.
4715 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
4716 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
4717 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
4718 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
4719 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
4720 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
4722 o Minor features (heartbeat):
4723 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
4724 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
4727 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
4728 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
4729 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
4730 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
4731 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
4733 o Minor features (log messages):
4734 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
4735 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
4736 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
4737 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
4739 o Minor features (logging, android):
4740 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
4743 o Minor features (performance):
4744 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
4745 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
4746 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
4747 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
4749 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
4750 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
4751 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
4752 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
4753 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
4754 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
4755 Implements ticket 24374.
4757 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
4758 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
4759 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
4760 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
4761 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
4763 o Minor features (performance, windows):
4764 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
4765 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
4766 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
4769 o Major features (relay):
4770 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
4771 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
4772 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
4773 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
4774 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
4776 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
4777 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
4778 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
4779 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
4780 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
4781 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
4782 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
4783 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
4784 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
4786 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
4787 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
4788 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
4789 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
4791 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
4792 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
4793 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
4794 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4795 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
4796 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
4797 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4798 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
4799 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
4800 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
4801 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
4802 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
4805 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
4806 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
4807 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
4808 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
4811 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
4812 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
4813 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
4816 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
4817 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
4818 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
4820 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
4821 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
4822 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
4823 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
4824 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
4826 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
4827 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
4828 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
4829 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
4831 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
4832 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
4833 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
4834 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
4835 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
4836 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
4838 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4839 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
4840 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
4841 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
4843 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
4844 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
4845 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
4846 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
4847 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4848 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
4851 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
4852 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
4853 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
4854 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
4856 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
4857 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
4858 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
4859 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4861 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
4862 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
4863 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
4864 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
4865 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
4866 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4867 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
4868 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
4869 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
4870 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
4871 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
4872 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4874 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4875 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
4876 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4877 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
4878 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
4880 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4881 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
4883 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
4884 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
4885 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
4886 "aruna1234" and teor.
4887 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
4888 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
4889 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
4890 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
4892 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
4893 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
4894 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
4895 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
4896 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
4897 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
4898 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
4899 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
4900 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
4901 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
4903 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
4904 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
4907 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
4908 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
4910 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
4911 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
4912 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
4913 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
4914 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
4915 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
4918 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
4919 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
4920 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
4921 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
4922 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
4924 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
4925 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
4926 adding very little except for unit test.
4928 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
4929 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
4930 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
4931 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
4933 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
4934 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
4935 const. Implements ticket 24489.
4938 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
4939 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
4941 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
4942 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
4943 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
4944 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
4945 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
4946 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
4948 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
4949 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
4950 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
4951 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
4952 with the 0.2.9 series.
4954 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
4955 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
4957 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
4958 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
4959 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
4960 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
4961 information. Closes ticket 24801.
4962 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
4963 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
4964 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
4965 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
4967 o Minor features (geoip):
4968 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4971 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
4972 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
4973 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
4974 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
4975 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
4978 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4979 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
4980 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4982 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
4983 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
4984 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
4985 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
4989 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
4990 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
4991 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
4992 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
4993 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
4994 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
4995 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
4997 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
4998 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
4999 will be nearly identical to this.
5001 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
5002 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
5003 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
5004 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
5005 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
5006 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
5007 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5009 o Minor features (geoip):
5010 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5013 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
5014 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
5015 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
5016 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5018 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
5019 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
5020 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
5021 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
5022 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
5025 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
5026 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
5027 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
5028 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
5029 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
5030 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5033 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
5034 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
5035 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
5037 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
5038 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
5039 be nearly identical to this.
5041 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
5042 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
5043 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
5044 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
5045 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
5046 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
5047 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
5049 o Minor features (logging):
5050 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
5053 o Minor features (portability):
5054 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
5055 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
5058 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
5059 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
5060 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
5061 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
5062 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5063 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
5064 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
5065 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
5066 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5067 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
5068 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
5069 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
5070 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5072 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5073 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
5074 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
5076 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
5077 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
5078 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
5079 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
5080 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
5081 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
5082 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
5085 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5086 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
5087 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
5088 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
5089 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
5090 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
5091 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5093 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
5094 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
5095 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
5096 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
5097 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
5098 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
5099 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
5100 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5101 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
5102 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
5103 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5106 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
5107 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
5108 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
5109 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
5112 o Major bugfixes (security):
5113 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
5114 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
5115 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
5116 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
5117 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
5118 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
5119 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
5120 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
5121 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
5122 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
5124 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
5125 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
5126 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
5127 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
5128 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
5129 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
5130 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
5133 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
5134 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
5135 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
5136 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
5137 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
5139 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
5140 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
5141 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
5142 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
5143 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5144 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
5145 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
5146 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
5147 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
5149 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
5150 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
5151 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
5152 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
5154 o Minor features (directory authority):
5155 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
5158 o Minor bugfixes (client):
5159 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
5160 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
5161 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5164 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
5165 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
5166 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
5167 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
5169 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5170 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
5171 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
5172 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
5173 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
5174 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
5175 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
5176 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
5177 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
5178 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
5179 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
5181 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
5182 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
5183 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
5184 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
5185 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
5186 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
5187 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
5190 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5191 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
5192 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
5193 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
5194 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
5196 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5197 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
5198 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
5199 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
5200 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5201 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
5202 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
5203 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
5204 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
5206 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
5207 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
5208 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
5209 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
5210 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
5211 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
5214 o Minor features (bridge):
5215 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
5216 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
5217 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
5218 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
5221 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5222 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
5225 o Minor features (geoip):
5226 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5229 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
5230 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
5231 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
5232 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
5233 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5235 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
5236 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
5237 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5239 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5240 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
5241 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
5242 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
5243 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
5244 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5246 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
5247 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
5248 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
5251 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
5252 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
5253 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
5254 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
5255 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5258 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
5259 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
5260 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
5261 to another of the releases coming out today.
5263 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
5264 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
5265 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
5267 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5268 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
5269 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
5270 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
5271 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
5272 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
5273 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
5274 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
5275 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
5276 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
5277 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
5279 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
5280 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
5281 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
5282 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
5283 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
5284 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
5285 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
5288 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5289 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
5290 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
5291 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
5292 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
5294 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5295 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
5296 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
5297 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
5298 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5299 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
5300 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
5301 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
5302 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
5304 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
5305 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
5306 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
5307 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
5308 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
5309 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
5312 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5313 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
5314 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
5315 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
5316 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
5317 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
5319 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
5320 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
5321 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
5322 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
5323 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
5326 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5327 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
5330 o Minor features (geoip):
5331 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5334 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
5335 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
5336 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
5337 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
5338 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5340 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
5341 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
5342 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5344 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5345 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
5346 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
5347 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
5348 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
5349 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5351 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
5352 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
5353 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
5354 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
5355 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5357 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
5358 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
5359 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
5362 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
5363 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
5364 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
5365 to another of the releases coming out today.
5367 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
5368 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
5369 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
5370 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
5371 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
5372 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
5375 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5376 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
5377 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
5378 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
5379 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
5380 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
5381 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
5382 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
5383 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
5384 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
5385 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
5387 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
5388 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
5389 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
5390 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
5391 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
5392 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
5393 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
5396 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5397 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
5398 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
5399 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
5400 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
5402 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5403 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
5404 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
5405 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
5406 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5407 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
5409 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
5410 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
5411 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
5412 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
5413 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
5416 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5417 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
5420 o Minor features (geoip):
5421 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5424 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5425 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
5426 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
5427 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
5428 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
5429 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
5431 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
5432 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
5433 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
5434 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
5435 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5437 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
5438 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
5439 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5441 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5442 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
5443 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
5444 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
5445 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
5446 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5448 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
5449 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
5450 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
5451 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
5452 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5454 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
5455 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
5456 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
5459 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
5460 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
5461 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
5462 to another of the releases coming out today.
5464 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
5465 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
5466 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
5468 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5469 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
5470 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
5471 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
5472 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
5473 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
5474 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
5475 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
5476 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
5477 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
5478 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
5479 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
5480 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
5481 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
5482 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
5485 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5486 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
5487 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
5488 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
5489 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
5491 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5492 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
5493 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
5494 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
5495 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
5498 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
5499 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
5500 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
5501 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
5502 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
5505 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5506 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
5509 o Minor features (geoip):
5510 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5513 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
5514 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
5515 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
5518 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
5519 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
5520 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
5521 to another of the releases coming out today.
5523 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
5524 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
5525 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
5527 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5528 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
5529 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
5530 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
5531 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
5532 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
5533 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
5534 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
5535 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
5536 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
5537 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
5538 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
5539 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
5540 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
5541 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
5544 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5545 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
5546 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
5547 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
5548 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5549 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
5551 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
5552 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
5553 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
5554 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
5555 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
5558 o Minor features (geoip):
5559 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5563 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
5564 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
5565 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
5566 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
5567 since the 0.3.0.x series.
5569 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
5570 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
5573 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
5574 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
5575 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
5576 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
5577 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
5578 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
5579 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
5580 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
5581 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
5582 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
5583 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
5586 o Minor features (directory authority):
5587 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
5588 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
5589 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
5590 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
5592 o Minor features (geoip):
5593 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5596 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5597 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
5598 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
5600 o Minor features (logging):
5601 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
5602 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
5604 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
5605 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
5607 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5608 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
5609 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
5610 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
5611 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
5612 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
5613 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
5614 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
5616 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5617 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
5618 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
5621 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
5622 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
5623 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
5624 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5626 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
5627 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
5628 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5629 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
5630 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
5631 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
5632 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
5633 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
5634 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
5637 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5638 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
5639 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5640 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
5641 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
5642 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
5643 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
5645 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
5646 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
5647 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
5648 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
5649 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
5650 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5652 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5653 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
5654 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
5655 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
5656 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5657 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
5658 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
5660 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
5661 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
5662 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5664 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
5665 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
5666 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5667 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
5668 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
5669 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
5670 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
5671 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
5674 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
5675 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
5676 section. Closes ticket 24254.
5679 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
5680 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
5681 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
5682 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
5685 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
5686 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
5687 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
5688 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
5689 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
5690 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
5693 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
5694 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
5695 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
5696 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
5697 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5699 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
5700 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
5701 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
5702 Closes ticket 23753.
5704 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
5705 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
5706 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
5707 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
5708 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
5710 o Minor features (testing):
5711 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
5712 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
5714 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
5715 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
5716 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
5717 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
5718 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5720 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
5721 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
5722 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
5723 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
5724 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
5727 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
5728 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
5729 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
5730 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
5731 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5733 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
5734 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
5735 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
5736 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5738 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
5739 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
5740 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
5742 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
5743 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5744 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
5746 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5747 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
5748 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
5749 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5750 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
5751 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5753 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
5754 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
5755 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
5756 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
5757 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
5758 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
5759 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
5760 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
5761 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
5762 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5763 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
5764 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
5766 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
5767 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
5768 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
5769 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
5770 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5772 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5773 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
5774 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
5775 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
5776 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
5777 Closes ticket 24109.
5780 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
5781 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
5782 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
5783 directory authority, Bastet.
5785 o Directory authority changes:
5786 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
5787 Closes ticket 23910.
5788 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
5789 Closes ticket 23592.
5791 o Minor features (bridge):
5792 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
5793 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
5794 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
5795 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
5796 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
5797 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
5798 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
5800 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
5801 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
5802 Resolves ticket 23670.
5804 o Minor features (geoip):
5805 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5808 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
5809 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
5810 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
5811 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5813 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
5814 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
5815 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5817 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
5818 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
5819 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
5820 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
5821 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
5822 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5824 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
5825 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
5826 only fetch the service descriptor once.
5827 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
5828 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
5829 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5831 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
5832 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
5833 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
5834 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
5836 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
5837 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
5838 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5840 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
5841 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
5842 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
5843 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
5844 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
5846 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
5847 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
5848 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
5850 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5851 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
5852 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
5855 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5856 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
5857 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
5858 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
5859 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5860 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
5861 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
5862 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
5864 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
5865 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
5866 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
5867 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
5868 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
5871 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
5872 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
5873 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
5874 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
5875 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
5879 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
5880 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
5881 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
5883 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
5884 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
5885 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
5887 o Directory authority changes:
5888 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
5889 Closes ticket 23910.
5890 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
5891 Closes ticket 23592.
5893 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5894 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
5895 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
5896 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
5897 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
5899 o Minor features (geoip):
5900 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5903 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
5904 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
5905 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
5906 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
5907 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
5908 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
5909 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
5910 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
5911 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
5913 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5914 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
5915 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
5916 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
5917 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
5918 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
5919 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
5920 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
5921 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
5924 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
5925 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
5926 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
5927 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
5929 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
5930 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
5931 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
5933 o Directory authority changes:
5934 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
5935 Closes ticket 23910.
5936 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
5937 Closes ticket 23592.
5939 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5940 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
5941 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
5942 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5944 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5945 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
5946 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
5947 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
5948 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
5950 o Minor features (geoip):
5951 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5955 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
5956 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
5957 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
5958 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
5960 o Directory authority changes:
5961 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
5962 Closes ticket 23910.
5963 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
5964 Closes ticket 23592.
5966 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5967 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
5968 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
5969 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5971 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5972 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
5973 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
5974 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
5975 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
5977 o Minor features (geoip):
5978 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5981 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5982 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
5983 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
5984 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
5985 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
5986 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
5987 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
5988 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
5991 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
5992 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
5993 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
5995 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
5996 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
5997 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
5998 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
5999 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
6000 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6001 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
6004 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
6005 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
6006 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
6007 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
6009 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
6010 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
6011 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
6013 o Directory authority changes:
6014 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
6015 Closes ticket 23910.
6016 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
6017 Closes ticket 23592.
6019 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6020 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
6021 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
6022 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6024 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6025 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
6026 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
6027 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
6028 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
6030 o Minor features (geoip):
6031 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6034 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6035 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
6036 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
6037 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
6038 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
6039 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
6040 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
6041 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
6044 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6045 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
6046 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
6047 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6049 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
6050 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
6051 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6053 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
6054 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
6055 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
6056 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
6057 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
6058 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6059 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
6062 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
6063 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
6064 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
6065 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
6066 a new directory authority, Bastet.
6068 o Directory authority changes:
6069 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
6070 Closes ticket 23910.
6071 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
6072 Closes ticket 23592.
6074 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6075 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
6076 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
6077 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6079 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6080 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
6081 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
6082 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
6083 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
6085 o Minor features (geoip):
6086 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6089 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6090 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
6091 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
6092 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
6094 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6095 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
6096 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
6099 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
6100 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
6101 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
6103 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6104 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
6105 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
6106 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6108 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
6109 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
6110 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6112 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6113 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
6114 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
6118 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
6119 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
6120 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
6121 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
6122 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
6123 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
6125 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
6126 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
6127 include better testing and logging.
6129 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
6132 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
6133 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
6134 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
6135 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6137 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
6138 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
6139 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
6140 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
6141 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
6142 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
6143 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6145 o Minor features (build, compilation):
6146 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
6147 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
6148 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
6149 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
6150 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
6151 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
6152 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
6153 Closes ticket 23643.
6155 o Minor features (directory authorities):
6156 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
6157 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
6158 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
6159 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
6161 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
6162 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
6163 the circuit identifier(s).
6164 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
6165 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
6167 o Minor features (logging):
6168 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
6169 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
6170 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
6171 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
6172 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
6174 o Minor features (relay):
6175 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
6176 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
6177 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
6178 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
6180 o Minor features (robustness):
6181 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
6182 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
6184 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
6185 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
6186 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
6187 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
6188 related to ticket 23080.
6190 o Minor features (testing):
6191 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
6192 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
6195 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
6196 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
6197 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
6199 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
6200 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
6203 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
6204 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
6205 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
6206 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
6207 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
6208 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
6209 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
6210 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
6211 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6213 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
6214 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
6215 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
6218 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
6219 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
6220 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
6221 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6223 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
6224 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
6225 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
6226 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
6227 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6228 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
6229 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
6230 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
6233 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
6234 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
6235 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
6236 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6238 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
6239 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
6240 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
6241 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
6242 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
6243 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6245 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
6246 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
6247 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
6248 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6249 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
6250 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
6251 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6252 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
6253 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6254 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
6255 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
6257 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
6258 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
6259 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
6260 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6261 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
6262 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6264 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6265 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
6266 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
6268 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
6269 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
6271 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
6272 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
6273 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6275 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6276 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
6277 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
6280 o Deprecated features:
6281 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
6282 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
6283 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
6286 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
6287 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6288 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
6289 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
6290 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
6291 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
6292 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
6293 Closes ticket 18736.
6296 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
6297 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
6298 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
6299 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
6300 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
6301 features and bugfixes here.
6303 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
6305 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
6306 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
6307 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
6308 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
6309 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
6310 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
6311 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
6312 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
6313 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
6314 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
6315 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
6316 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
6318 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
6319 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
6320 more information, see the design paper at
6321 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
6322 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
6323 Closes ticket 12541.
6325 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
6326 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
6327 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
6328 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
6329 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
6330 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
6333 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
6334 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
6336 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
6339 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
6342 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
6344 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
6346 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
6348 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
6349 they are 56 characters long, as in
6350 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
6352 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
6353 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
6354 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
6355 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
6356 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
6359 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
6360 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
6361 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
6362 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
6363 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
6364 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
6367 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
6368 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
6369 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
6370 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
6372 o Minor features (bug detection):
6373 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
6374 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
6375 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
6377 o Minor features (client):
6378 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
6379 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
6380 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
6381 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
6382 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
6383 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
6384 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
6385 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
6386 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
6387 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
6389 o Minor features (command line):
6390 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
6391 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
6392 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
6394 o Minor features (control port):
6395 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
6396 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
6397 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
6399 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
6400 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
6402 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
6403 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
6404 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
6405 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
6406 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
6407 Closes ticket 23237.
6408 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
6409 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
6411 o Minor features (development support):
6412 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
6413 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
6414 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
6415 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
6416 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
6417 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
6419 o Minor features (ed25519):
6420 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
6421 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
6422 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
6424 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
6425 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
6426 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
6428 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
6429 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
6430 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
6431 another program, regardless of the settings of
6432 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
6433 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
6434 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
6436 o Minor features (logging):
6437 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
6438 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
6439 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
6441 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
6442 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
6444 o Minor features (portability):
6445 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
6446 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
6447 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
6448 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
6450 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
6451 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
6452 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
6453 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
6454 results. Closes ticket 22731.
6456 o Minor features (startup, safety):
6457 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
6458 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
6461 o Minor features (static analysis):
6462 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
6463 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
6466 o Minor features (testing):
6467 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
6468 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
6469 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
6470 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
6471 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
6473 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
6474 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
6475 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
6476 Coverity as CID 1415728.
6478 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
6479 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
6480 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
6481 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
6482 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
6483 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
6484 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
6485 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
6487 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
6488 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
6489 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
6490 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
6491 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6492 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
6493 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
6494 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
6496 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6497 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
6498 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6500 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
6501 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
6502 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
6503 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
6505 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
6506 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
6507 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
6508 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
6509 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
6510 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
6512 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
6513 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
6516 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
6517 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
6518 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
6519 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6521 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
6522 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
6523 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
6524 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
6525 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
6526 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
6527 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
6530 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
6531 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
6532 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
6533 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6535 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
6536 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
6537 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
6539 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6540 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
6541 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
6542 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
6543 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
6544 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
6546 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
6547 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
6548 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
6550 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
6551 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
6552 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
6554 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
6555 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
6556 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
6557 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
6559 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6560 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
6561 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6563 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6564 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
6565 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
6566 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
6567 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
6568 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
6569 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
6570 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6572 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
6573 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
6574 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
6575 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
6576 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
6577 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
6578 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6580 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
6581 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
6582 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
6583 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6585 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6586 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
6587 function from the general code to handle channel state
6588 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
6589 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
6590 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
6591 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
6592 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
6593 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
6594 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
6595 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
6597 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
6598 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
6600 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
6601 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
6602 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
6603 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
6604 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
6605 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
6606 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
6607 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
6608 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
6609 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
6610 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
6611 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
6613 o Deprecated features:
6614 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
6615 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
6616 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
6620 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
6621 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
6622 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
6623 Closes ticket 15645.
6624 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
6625 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
6626 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
6627 file. Closes ticket 21148.
6630 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
6631 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
6632 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
6633 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
6634 Closes ticket 21031.
6635 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
6636 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
6639 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
6640 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
6643 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
6644 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
6645 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
6646 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
6648 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
6649 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
6650 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
6651 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
6653 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6654 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
6655 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
6656 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
6657 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
6660 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6663 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6664 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
6665 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
6668 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
6669 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
6670 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
6671 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
6672 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
6673 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
6674 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
6675 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
6676 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
6678 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6679 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
6680 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
6681 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
6682 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
6683 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
6684 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
6685 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
6686 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
6689 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
6690 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
6693 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
6694 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
6695 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
6696 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
6698 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
6699 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
6700 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
6701 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
6702 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
6703 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
6704 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
6706 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
6707 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
6708 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
6709 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
6711 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
6712 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
6713 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6715 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6716 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
6717 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6718 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
6720 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6721 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
6722 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
6723 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
6724 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
6726 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6727 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
6728 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
6729 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
6731 o Minor features (geoip):
6732 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6735 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6736 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
6737 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
6738 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
6740 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6741 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
6742 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6743 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
6744 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6745 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
6746 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
6747 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6749 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
6750 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
6751 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
6753 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6754 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
6755 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
6758 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
6759 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
6760 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6761 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
6762 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6764 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6765 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
6766 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
6767 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
6768 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
6769 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6771 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
6772 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
6773 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
6774 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
6775 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
6776 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
6777 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
6778 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
6779 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
6781 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6782 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
6783 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
6784 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6786 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6787 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
6788 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6790 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
6791 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
6792 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
6793 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
6794 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6796 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
6797 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
6798 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
6801 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6802 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
6803 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
6804 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
6805 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
6807 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6808 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
6809 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
6810 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
6811 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
6812 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
6813 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
6814 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
6815 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
6818 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
6819 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
6822 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
6823 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
6824 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
6825 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
6827 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
6828 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
6829 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
6830 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
6833 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6836 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
6837 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
6838 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
6840 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
6841 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
6842 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6843 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
6844 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6846 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6847 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
6848 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
6849 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6851 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
6852 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
6853 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
6855 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
6856 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
6857 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
6858 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
6861 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
6862 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
6864 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
6865 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
6866 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
6867 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
6868 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
6869 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
6870 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
6872 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
6873 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
6874 disabled. For more information, see
6875 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
6877 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
6878 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
6879 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
6880 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
6881 with the 0.2.9 series.
6883 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
6884 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
6886 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
6887 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
6888 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
6889 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
6890 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
6892 o Minor features (defensive programming):
6893 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
6894 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
6895 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
6898 o Minor features (diagnostic):
6899 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
6900 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
6901 attempt for bug 23105.
6903 o Minor features (geoip):
6904 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6907 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6908 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
6909 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
6911 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
6912 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
6913 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6914 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
6915 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6917 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6918 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
6919 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
6920 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6922 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
6923 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
6924 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
6928 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
6929 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
6930 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
6931 Windows directory caches.
6933 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
6934 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
6935 will be nearly identical to it.
6937 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
6938 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
6939 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
6940 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
6941 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
6942 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6944 o Minor features (directory authority):
6945 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
6946 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
6947 Closes ticket 22348.
6949 o Minor features (geoip):
6950 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6953 o Minor features (testing):
6954 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
6957 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
6958 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
6959 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6961 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
6962 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
6963 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
6964 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
6965 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
6966 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
6967 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
6968 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
6969 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
6970 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6972 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
6973 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
6974 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
6976 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
6977 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
6978 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
6979 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
6981 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6982 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
6983 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
6984 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
6985 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6987 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
6988 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
6989 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
6990 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
6991 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
6992 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
6994 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
6995 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
6996 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
6997 with the clang static analyzer.
6999 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7000 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
7001 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
7002 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
7003 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
7006 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
7007 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
7008 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
7009 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
7010 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
7011 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7012 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
7015 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
7016 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
7017 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
7018 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
7020 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7021 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
7022 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
7023 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
7024 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
7025 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
7026 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
7027 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
7028 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
7030 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7031 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
7032 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7033 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
7035 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7036 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
7037 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
7038 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
7039 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
7041 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7042 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7045 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
7046 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
7047 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
7048 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
7050 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7051 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
7052 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7053 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
7054 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7055 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
7056 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
7057 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
7060 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7061 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
7062 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
7065 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7066 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
7067 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
7068 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
7069 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
7070 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7072 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7073 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
7074 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
7075 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7077 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7078 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
7079 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7081 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
7082 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
7083 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7086 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
7087 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
7088 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
7089 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
7090 next version will be a release candidate.
7092 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
7093 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
7094 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
7095 one of those versions should upgrade.
7097 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
7098 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
7099 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
7100 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
7101 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
7102 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
7103 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
7104 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
7105 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
7107 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
7108 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
7109 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
7110 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
7111 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
7113 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
7114 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
7115 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
7116 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
7117 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
7118 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7120 o Minor features (bridge authority):
7121 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
7122 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
7124 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
7125 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
7126 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
7127 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
7128 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
7131 o Minor features (geoip):
7132 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7135 o Minor features (relay, performance):
7136 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
7137 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
7138 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
7139 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
7140 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
7143 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
7144 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
7145 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
7146 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
7147 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
7149 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
7150 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
7151 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
7152 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
7153 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7155 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
7156 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
7157 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7158 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
7159 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7160 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
7161 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
7162 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7163 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
7164 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
7165 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
7168 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
7169 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
7170 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
7171 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
7172 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
7173 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7175 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
7176 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
7177 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
7178 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
7179 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
7180 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
7181 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
7182 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
7185 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
7186 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
7187 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
7190 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
7191 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
7192 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
7193 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7195 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7196 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
7197 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7199 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7200 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
7201 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
7202 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
7204 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
7205 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
7206 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
7207 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
7208 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7209 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
7210 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7213 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
7214 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
7215 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
7216 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
7217 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
7220 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
7221 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
7225 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
7226 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
7227 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
7228 close ticket 22623.)
7230 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
7231 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
7232 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
7233 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
7234 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
7235 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
7237 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
7238 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
7239 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
7240 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7242 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
7243 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
7244 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
7245 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
7246 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7248 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
7249 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
7250 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
7251 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7253 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
7254 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
7255 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
7256 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
7258 o Minor features (geoip):
7259 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7262 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
7263 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
7264 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
7266 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
7267 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7268 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
7269 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
7270 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
7271 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
7273 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
7274 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
7276 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
7277 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
7278 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
7279 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
7280 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7282 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
7283 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
7284 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
7285 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
7286 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
7287 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
7288 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
7289 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
7290 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
7291 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
7292 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
7293 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
7295 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7296 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
7297 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
7298 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
7299 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7300 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
7301 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
7302 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
7303 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7305 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7306 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
7307 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
7308 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
7309 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
7310 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
7311 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
7312 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
7313 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
7314 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
7315 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7316 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
7317 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
7318 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
7319 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
7320 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7322 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
7323 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
7324 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
7325 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
7326 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
7327 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
7328 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
7332 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
7334 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
7335 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
7337 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
7338 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
7339 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
7343 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
7344 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
7345 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
7346 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
7347 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
7350 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
7353 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
7354 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
7355 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
7356 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
7357 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
7358 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
7360 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7361 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
7362 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
7363 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
7365 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
7366 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
7367 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
7368 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7370 o Minor features (geoip):
7371 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7374 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7375 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
7376 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
7377 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
7378 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
7380 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
7381 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
7382 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
7383 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
7384 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7386 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
7387 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
7388 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
7389 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
7390 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
7391 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
7392 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
7393 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
7394 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
7397 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
7398 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
7399 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
7400 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
7401 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
7403 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
7404 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
7405 bugfixes described below.
7407 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
7408 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
7409 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
7410 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7411 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
7412 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
7413 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
7416 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
7417 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
7418 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
7419 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
7420 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
7421 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
7422 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
7425 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
7426 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
7427 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
7428 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
7429 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
7430 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
7431 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
7432 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7433 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
7434 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
7435 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
7436 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
7437 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
7440 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
7441 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
7442 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
7444 o Minor features (code style):
7445 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
7446 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
7447 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
7449 o Minor features (diagnostic):
7450 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
7451 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
7452 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
7453 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
7455 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
7456 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
7457 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
7459 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
7460 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
7461 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7463 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
7464 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
7465 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
7466 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
7467 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
7468 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
7469 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7471 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
7472 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
7473 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
7474 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
7475 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7477 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
7478 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
7479 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
7483 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
7486 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
7487 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
7488 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
7489 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
7490 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
7492 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
7493 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
7494 bugfixes described below.
7496 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
7497 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7498 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
7499 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
7500 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7501 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
7502 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
7503 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
7506 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7507 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
7508 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
7509 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
7510 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
7511 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
7512 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
7515 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7516 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
7517 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
7518 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
7519 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
7520 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
7521 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
7522 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7523 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
7524 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
7525 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
7526 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
7527 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
7530 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7531 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
7532 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
7535 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7536 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
7537 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
7538 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
7539 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
7541 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7542 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
7543 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7545 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7546 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
7547 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
7549 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7550 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
7551 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
7552 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
7553 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
7554 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
7555 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7557 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
7559 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
7560 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
7561 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7564 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
7565 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
7566 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
7567 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
7568 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
7569 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
7571 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
7572 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
7573 bugfixes described below.
7575 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
7576 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7577 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
7578 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
7579 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
7582 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7583 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
7584 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
7585 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
7586 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
7587 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
7588 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
7591 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7592 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
7593 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
7594 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
7595 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
7597 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
7598 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
7599 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
7600 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
7601 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
7602 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
7603 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
7605 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
7606 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
7607 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
7608 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
7609 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
7611 o Minor features (geoip):
7612 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7615 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
7616 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
7617 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
7618 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7620 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7621 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
7622 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
7624 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
7625 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
7626 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
7627 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
7628 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
7631 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
7632 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
7633 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
7634 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
7635 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7637 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
7638 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
7639 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
7640 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
7641 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
7642 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
7644 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
7645 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
7646 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
7647 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
7650 o Minor features (geoip):
7651 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7654 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7655 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
7656 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
7657 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
7658 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
7660 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
7661 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
7662 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
7664 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
7665 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
7666 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
7667 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
7668 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
7669 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
7671 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
7672 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
7673 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
7674 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
7677 o Minor features (geoip):
7678 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7681 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
7682 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
7683 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
7686 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
7687 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
7688 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
7689 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
7690 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
7691 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
7693 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
7694 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
7695 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
7696 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
7699 o Minor features (geoip):
7700 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7703 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
7704 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
7705 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
7707 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
7708 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
7709 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
7710 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
7711 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
7712 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
7714 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
7715 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
7716 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
7717 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
7720 o Minor features (geoip):
7721 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7724 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
7725 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
7726 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
7728 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
7729 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
7730 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
7731 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
7732 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
7733 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
7735 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
7736 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
7737 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
7738 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
7741 o Minor features (geoip):
7742 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7745 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
7746 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
7747 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
7750 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
7751 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
7752 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
7753 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
7755 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
7756 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
7757 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
7758 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
7759 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7761 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7762 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
7763 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
7766 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
7767 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
7768 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
7769 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7772 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
7773 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
7774 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
7775 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
7776 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
7779 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
7780 security, correctness, and performance.
7782 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
7784 o Major features (directory protocol):
7785 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
7786 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
7787 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
7788 now request these documents when available. When both client and
7789 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
7790 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
7791 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
7792 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
7793 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
7794 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
7795 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
7796 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
7797 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
7798 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
7799 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
7800 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
7801 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
7803 o Major features (experimental):
7804 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
7805 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
7806 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
7807 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
7808 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
7809 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
7810 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
7812 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
7813 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
7814 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
7815 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
7816 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
7817 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
7820 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
7821 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
7822 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
7823 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
7824 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
7825 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
7826 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
7827 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
7828 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
7829 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
7832 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
7833 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
7834 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
7835 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
7836 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
7837 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
7838 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
7839 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
7840 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
7841 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
7842 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
7843 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
7844 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
7845 Otherwise it is at info.
7847 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
7848 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
7849 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
7850 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
7852 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
7853 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
7854 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7855 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
7857 o Minor features (security, windows):
7858 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
7859 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
7860 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
7861 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
7862 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
7864 o Minor features (config options):
7865 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
7866 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
7867 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
7868 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
7869 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
7870 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
7871 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
7872 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
7874 o Minor features (controller):
7875 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
7876 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
7878 o Minor features (defaults):
7879 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
7880 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
7881 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
7882 can. Closes ticket 21407.
7883 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
7884 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
7885 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
7886 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
7887 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
7888 Closes ticket 21641.
7890 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
7891 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
7892 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
7893 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
7894 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
7895 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
7896 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
7898 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
7899 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
7900 introduction points than specified in
7901 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
7902 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
7903 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
7904 21594; closes ticket 21622.
7905 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
7906 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
7907 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
7908 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
7910 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7911 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
7912 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
7913 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
7914 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
7915 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
7916 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
7917 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
7918 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
7919 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
7921 o Minor features (logging):
7922 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
7923 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
7924 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
7925 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
7928 o Minor features (performance):
7929 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
7930 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
7932 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
7933 speed some controller functions.
7935 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
7936 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
7937 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
7938 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
7940 o Minor features (safety):
7941 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
7942 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
7943 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
7946 o Minor features (testing):
7947 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
7948 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
7949 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
7950 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
7951 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
7952 on. Closes ticket 21439.
7953 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
7954 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
7955 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
7956 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
7957 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
7958 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
7959 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
7960 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
7961 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
7962 21507. Partially implements 21470.
7964 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
7965 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
7966 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
7967 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
7969 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
7970 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
7971 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
7972 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
7975 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
7976 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
7977 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7979 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
7980 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
7981 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
7982 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
7983 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
7984 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
7985 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
7986 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
7987 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
7988 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
7989 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
7990 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
7991 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
7992 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
7994 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7995 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
7996 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7997 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
7998 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
7999 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
8000 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
8001 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8003 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
8004 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
8005 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
8006 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8007 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
8008 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
8009 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
8011 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
8012 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
8013 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
8014 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
8015 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
8017 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
8018 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
8019 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
8020 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
8021 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
8022 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8023 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
8024 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8025 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
8026 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
8027 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8029 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8030 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
8031 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
8032 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8033 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
8034 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
8035 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8037 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
8038 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
8039 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
8041 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
8042 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
8043 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
8044 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
8045 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
8047 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8048 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
8049 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
8050 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8051 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
8052 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8053 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
8054 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
8055 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
8056 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
8058 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
8059 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
8060 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
8061 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
8062 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
8064 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
8065 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
8066 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8068 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8069 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
8070 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
8071 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
8072 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
8073 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
8074 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
8075 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
8076 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
8077 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
8078 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
8079 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
8081 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
8082 Resolves ticket 22213.
8083 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
8084 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
8085 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
8086 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
8087 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
8088 types. Closes ticket 21651.
8089 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
8090 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
8093 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
8094 Closes ticket 21873.
8095 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
8096 Closes ticket 21151.
8097 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
8098 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
8100 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
8101 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8102 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
8103 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
8105 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
8106 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
8107 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
8108 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
8109 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
8110 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
8111 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
8112 default behavior is now unavailable.
8113 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
8114 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
8115 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
8116 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
8117 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
8118 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
8119 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
8121 o Removed features (tools):
8122 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
8123 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
8124 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
8125 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
8126 required. Closes ticket 21842.
8129 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
8130 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
8131 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
8132 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
8133 clients are not affected.
8135 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
8136 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
8137 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
8138 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
8139 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
8140 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8143 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8146 o Minor features (future-proofing):
8147 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
8148 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
8149 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
8150 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
8151 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
8152 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
8154 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8155 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
8156 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
8157 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
8158 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
8162 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
8163 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
8165 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
8166 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
8167 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
8168 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
8169 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
8170 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
8173 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
8174 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
8176 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
8177 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
8178 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
8179 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
8180 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
8182 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
8183 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
8185 o Minor features (geoip):
8186 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8189 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
8190 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
8191 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
8192 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8194 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
8195 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
8196 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
8197 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8200 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
8201 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
8202 0.3.0 release series.
8204 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
8205 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
8206 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
8209 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
8210 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
8211 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
8212 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
8214 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
8215 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
8216 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
8217 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8218 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
8220 o Minor features (geoip):
8221 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8224 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
8225 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
8226 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
8227 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
8230 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8231 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
8232 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
8233 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
8234 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
8235 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
8236 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
8237 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
8239 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8240 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
8241 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
8243 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8244 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
8245 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
8248 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
8249 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
8250 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
8251 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
8252 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8255 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
8256 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
8257 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
8261 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
8262 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
8263 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
8264 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
8265 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
8268 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
8269 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
8270 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
8272 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
8273 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
8274 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
8275 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
8276 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
8277 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
8278 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
8280 o Minor features (geoip):
8281 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8285 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
8286 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
8287 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
8288 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
8291 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
8292 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
8293 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
8295 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
8296 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
8298 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
8299 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8300 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
8302 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
8303 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
8304 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
8307 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
8308 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
8309 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
8310 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
8311 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
8312 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
8313 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
8314 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
8315 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
8317 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
8318 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
8319 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
8320 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
8321 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8322 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
8323 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
8324 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
8325 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
8326 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
8327 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
8328 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
8329 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
8331 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8332 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
8333 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
8334 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
8335 Reported by Guido Vranken.
8337 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8338 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
8339 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
8341 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
8342 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
8343 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
8344 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
8345 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
8346 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
8347 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
8350 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
8351 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
8352 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
8353 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
8354 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
8355 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
8356 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
8358 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
8359 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
8360 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
8361 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
8364 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8365 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
8366 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
8367 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
8369 o Minor features (geoip):
8370 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8374 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
8375 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
8376 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
8377 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
8380 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
8381 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
8382 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
8384 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
8385 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
8387 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
8388 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8389 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
8391 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
8392 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
8393 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
8396 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
8397 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
8398 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
8399 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
8400 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
8401 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
8402 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
8403 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
8404 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
8406 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
8407 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
8408 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
8409 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
8410 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
8411 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
8412 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
8413 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
8414 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
8416 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
8417 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
8418 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
8419 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
8420 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8422 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
8423 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
8424 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
8425 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
8426 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
8429 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8430 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
8431 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
8432 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
8433 Reported by Guido Vranken.
8435 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8436 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
8437 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
8439 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
8440 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
8441 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
8442 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
8443 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
8444 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
8447 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
8448 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
8449 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
8450 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
8451 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
8452 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
8453 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
8456 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
8457 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
8458 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
8459 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
8460 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
8461 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
8462 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
8464 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
8465 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
8466 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
8467 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
8470 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8471 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
8472 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
8473 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
8475 o Minor features (geoip):
8476 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8479 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
8480 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
8481 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
8484 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
8485 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
8486 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
8487 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
8490 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
8491 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
8492 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
8494 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
8495 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
8497 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
8498 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8499 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
8501 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
8502 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
8503 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
8506 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
8507 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
8508 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
8509 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
8510 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
8511 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
8512 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
8513 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
8514 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
8516 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
8517 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
8518 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
8519 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
8520 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
8521 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
8522 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
8523 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
8524 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
8526 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
8527 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
8528 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
8529 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
8530 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8532 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
8533 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
8534 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
8535 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
8536 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
8539 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8540 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
8541 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
8542 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
8543 Reported by Guido Vranken.
8545 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8546 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
8547 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
8549 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
8550 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
8551 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
8552 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
8553 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
8554 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
8557 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
8558 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
8559 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
8560 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
8561 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
8562 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
8563 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
8566 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
8567 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
8568 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
8569 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
8570 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
8571 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
8572 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
8574 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
8575 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
8576 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
8577 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
8580 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8581 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
8582 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
8583 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
8585 o Minor features (geoip):
8586 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8589 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
8590 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
8591 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
8593 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
8594 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
8595 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
8596 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
8597 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
8598 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
8600 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
8601 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
8602 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
8606 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
8607 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
8608 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
8609 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
8612 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
8613 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
8614 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
8616 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
8617 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
8619 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
8620 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8621 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
8623 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
8624 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
8625 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
8628 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
8629 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
8630 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
8631 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
8632 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
8633 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
8634 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
8635 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
8636 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
8638 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
8639 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
8640 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
8641 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
8642 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
8643 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
8644 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
8645 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
8646 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
8648 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
8649 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
8650 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
8651 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
8652 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
8655 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8656 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
8657 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
8658 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
8659 Reported by Guido Vranken.
8661 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8662 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
8663 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
8665 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
8666 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
8667 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
8668 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
8669 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
8670 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
8673 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
8674 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
8675 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
8676 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
8677 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
8678 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
8679 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
8682 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
8683 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
8684 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
8685 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
8686 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
8687 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
8688 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
8690 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
8691 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
8692 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
8693 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
8696 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8697 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
8698 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
8699 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
8701 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
8702 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
8703 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
8704 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
8706 o Minor features (geoip):
8707 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8710 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
8711 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
8712 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
8714 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
8715 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
8716 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
8720 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
8721 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
8722 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
8723 keep them from coming back.
8725 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
8726 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
8727 will be nearly identical to it.
8729 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
8730 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
8731 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
8732 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
8733 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
8734 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8736 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
8737 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
8738 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8740 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
8741 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
8742 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
8743 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
8744 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
8745 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
8746 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
8747 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
8748 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
8749 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
8750 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
8751 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
8752 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
8753 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
8754 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
8756 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
8757 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
8758 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
8760 o Minor features (directory authorities):
8761 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
8762 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
8764 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
8765 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
8766 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
8767 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
8768 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
8769 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
8770 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
8772 o Minor features (geoip):
8773 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8776 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
8777 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
8778 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
8781 o Minor features (testing):
8782 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
8783 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
8784 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
8786 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
8787 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
8788 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
8790 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
8791 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
8792 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
8793 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
8794 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
8795 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8797 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
8798 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
8799 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
8800 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8801 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
8802 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
8803 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
8806 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
8807 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
8808 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
8809 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8810 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
8811 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
8812 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8814 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
8815 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
8816 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
8817 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
8818 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
8819 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8821 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8822 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
8823 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
8825 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
8826 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
8827 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
8828 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
8829 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8832 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
8835 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
8836 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
8837 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
8838 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
8840 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
8841 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
8842 least January of 2020.
8844 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
8845 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
8846 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
8847 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
8850 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
8851 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
8852 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
8853 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
8854 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
8855 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
8856 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8858 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
8859 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
8860 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
8861 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
8862 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
8863 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
8864 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
8866 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
8867 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
8868 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
8870 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
8871 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
8872 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
8874 o Minor features (geoip):
8875 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8878 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
8879 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
8880 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
8882 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
8883 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
8885 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
8886 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
8887 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
8889 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
8890 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
8891 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
8892 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8893 Patch by "junglefowl".
8896 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
8897 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
8898 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
8899 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
8900 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
8901 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
8903 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
8904 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
8905 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
8908 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
8909 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
8910 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
8911 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
8913 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
8914 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
8915 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
8916 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
8917 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8919 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
8920 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
8921 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
8922 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
8923 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8925 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
8926 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
8927 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
8928 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
8929 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
8930 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
8931 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8933 o Minor feature (client):
8934 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
8935 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
8937 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
8938 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
8939 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
8940 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
8942 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
8943 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
8944 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
8945 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
8946 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
8948 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
8949 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
8950 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
8951 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
8952 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
8953 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
8954 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
8955 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
8956 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
8957 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
8959 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
8960 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
8961 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
8963 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
8964 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
8966 o Minor features (relay):
8967 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
8968 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
8969 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
8970 Written by Michael Sonntag.
8972 o Minor bugfix (logging):
8973 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
8974 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
8975 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
8976 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
8979 o Minor bugfixes (client):
8980 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
8981 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
8982 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8984 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
8985 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
8986 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
8988 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
8989 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8990 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
8991 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
8992 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8993 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
8994 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
8996 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
8997 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
8998 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
8999 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
9000 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
9001 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
9002 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
9005 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9006 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
9007 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9009 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
9010 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
9011 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
9012 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
9013 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9014 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
9015 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
9016 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
9018 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
9019 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
9020 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9022 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9023 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
9024 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
9025 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
9027 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
9028 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
9029 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
9030 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9032 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
9033 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
9034 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
9035 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9036 Patch by "junglefowl".
9038 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
9039 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
9040 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
9044 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
9045 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
9046 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
9047 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
9048 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
9049 version should upgrade.
9051 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
9052 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
9053 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
9054 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
9055 the set of fallback directories, and more.
9057 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
9058 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
9059 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
9060 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
9061 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
9062 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
9065 o Major features (security):
9066 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
9067 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
9068 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
9069 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
9070 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
9071 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
9073 o Major features (directory authority, security):
9074 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
9075 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
9076 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
9078 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
9079 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
9080 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
9081 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
9082 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
9085 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
9086 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
9087 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
9088 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
9089 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
9090 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
9091 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
9092 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
9093 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
9094 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
9095 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9097 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
9098 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
9099 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9101 o Minor features (controller):
9102 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
9103 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
9105 o Minor features (entry guards):
9106 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
9107 break regression tests.
9108 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
9109 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
9111 o Minor features (fallback directories):
9112 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
9114 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
9115 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
9116 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
9117 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
9118 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
9119 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
9120 Closes ticket 20539.
9121 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
9123 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
9124 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
9125 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
9126 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
9127 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
9129 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
9130 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
9131 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
9132 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
9133 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
9134 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
9135 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
9136 Closes ticket 20822.
9137 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
9138 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
9140 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
9141 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9144 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
9145 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
9146 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
9147 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
9149 o Minor features (linting):
9150 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
9151 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
9153 o Minor features (logging):
9154 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
9155 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
9157 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
9158 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
9159 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
9160 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
9161 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
9162 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
9164 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
9165 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
9166 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
9167 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
9169 o Minor bugfixes (build):
9170 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
9171 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
9174 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
9175 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
9176 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
9177 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9179 o Minor bugfixes (config):
9180 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
9181 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
9182 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
9183 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9185 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9186 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
9187 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
9190 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
9191 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
9192 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
9193 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
9194 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9196 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9197 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
9198 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
9200 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
9201 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
9202 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9203 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
9204 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
9205 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
9206 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
9207 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
9208 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
9210 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
9211 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
9212 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
9213 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9215 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9216 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
9217 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
9218 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9219 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
9220 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9222 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
9223 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
9224 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9225 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
9226 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
9227 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
9228 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
9229 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
9231 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9232 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
9233 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9235 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
9236 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
9237 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
9238 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
9240 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
9241 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9243 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9244 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
9245 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
9246 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
9247 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
9249 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9250 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
9251 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9253 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
9254 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
9255 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
9256 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
9257 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9259 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9260 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
9261 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
9263 o Documentation (formatting):
9264 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
9265 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
9267 o Documentation (man page):
9268 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
9269 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
9272 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
9273 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
9274 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
9275 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
9276 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
9277 version should upgrade.
9279 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
9280 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
9282 o Major bugfixes (security):
9283 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
9284 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
9285 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
9286 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
9287 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
9288 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9290 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
9291 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
9292 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
9293 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
9294 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
9295 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
9296 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
9297 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
9298 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
9299 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
9300 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9302 o Minor features (geoip):
9303 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9306 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9307 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
9308 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
9309 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
9311 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
9312 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9315 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
9316 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
9317 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
9318 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
9319 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
9320 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
9321 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
9322 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
9324 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
9326 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
9327 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
9328 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
9329 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
9330 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
9333 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
9334 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
9335 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
9336 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
9337 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
9338 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
9339 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
9340 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
9343 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
9344 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
9345 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
9346 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
9347 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
9349 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
9350 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
9351 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
9352 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
9353 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
9354 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
9355 15056; part of proposal 220.
9356 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
9357 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
9358 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
9359 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
9360 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
9362 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
9363 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
9364 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
9365 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
9366 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9368 o Minor features (controller):
9369 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
9370 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
9373 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
9374 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
9375 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
9378 o Minor features (directory authority):
9379 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
9380 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
9381 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
9382 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
9383 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
9385 o Minor features (directory cache):
9386 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
9387 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
9390 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
9391 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
9392 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
9393 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
9395 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
9396 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
9397 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
9398 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
9400 o Minor features (infrastructure):
9401 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
9402 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
9404 o Minor bugfixes (client):
9405 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
9406 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
9407 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
9409 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
9410 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
9411 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
9412 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
9413 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
9414 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
9416 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
9417 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
9418 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
9419 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
9420 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
9422 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
9423 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
9424 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
9425 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
9426 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
9428 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
9429 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
9430 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
9431 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
9432 on all recent tor versions.
9433 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
9434 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
9435 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
9436 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
9438 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
9439 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
9440 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9442 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
9443 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
9444 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
9445 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
9448 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
9449 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
9450 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
9453 o Minor bugfixes (util):
9454 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
9455 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
9456 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
9457 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
9459 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
9460 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
9461 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
9462 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
9464 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9465 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
9466 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
9467 Closes ticket 19858.
9468 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
9469 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
9470 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
9471 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
9472 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
9473 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
9474 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
9475 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
9476 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
9477 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
9478 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
9479 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
9480 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
9481 redundant with the similar structures used in the
9482 channel abstraction.
9483 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
9484 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
9485 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
9486 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
9487 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
9488 replaced with code automatically generated by the
9492 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
9493 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9494 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
9495 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
9497 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
9498 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
9500 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
9501 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
9502 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
9503 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
9504 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
9508 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
9509 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
9510 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
9512 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
9513 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
9514 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
9517 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
9518 from "overcaffeinated".
9519 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
9520 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
9521 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
9522 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
9523 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
9527 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
9528 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
9529 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
9530 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
9531 become available for their systems.
9533 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
9536 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
9537 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
9539 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
9540 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
9541 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
9542 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
9543 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
9544 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
9545 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
9546 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
9547 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
9549 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
9550 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
9551 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
9552 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
9553 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
9555 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
9556 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9560 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
9561 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
9563 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
9564 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
9565 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
9566 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
9567 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
9568 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
9569 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
9570 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
9572 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
9574 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
9575 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
9576 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
9577 become available for their systems.
9579 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
9580 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
9582 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
9583 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
9584 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
9585 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
9586 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
9587 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
9588 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
9589 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
9590 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
9592 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
9593 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
9594 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
9595 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
9596 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
9599 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
9600 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
9601 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
9604 o Minor features (geoip):
9605 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9608 o Minor bugfix (build):
9609 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
9610 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
9611 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
9613 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
9614 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
9615 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
9616 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9618 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
9619 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
9620 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
9622 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9623 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
9624 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
9627 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
9628 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
9629 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9630 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
9631 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
9632 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
9634 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9635 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
9636 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
9637 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9639 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9640 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
9641 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
9643 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
9644 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
9645 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
9646 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
9647 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
9648 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
9649 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9650 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
9651 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
9652 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
9655 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
9656 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
9657 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
9658 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
9661 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9662 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
9663 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
9664 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
9665 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
9666 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
9669 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
9670 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
9671 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
9674 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
9675 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
9676 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
9677 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
9679 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
9680 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
9681 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
9682 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
9685 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
9686 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
9687 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
9688 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
9691 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
9692 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
9693 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
9696 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
9697 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
9698 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
9700 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
9701 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
9702 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
9704 o Minor features (geoip):
9705 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9708 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
9709 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
9710 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
9711 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
9712 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
9714 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
9715 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
9716 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
9717 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
9718 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
9719 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9721 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
9722 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
9723 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9725 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
9726 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
9727 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
9728 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
9729 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
9730 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
9732 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9733 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
9734 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
9736 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
9737 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
9739 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
9740 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
9741 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
9742 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
9743 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
9744 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
9746 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
9747 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
9748 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
9752 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
9753 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
9756 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
9757 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
9758 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
9759 everyone to test this release.
9761 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
9762 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
9763 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
9764 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
9767 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
9768 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
9769 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
9770 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
9773 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
9774 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
9775 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
9776 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
9777 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9778 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
9779 download, stop waiting for certificates.
9780 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
9781 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
9782 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
9784 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
9785 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
9786 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
9787 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9788 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
9789 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9790 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
9791 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
9792 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9793 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
9794 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
9795 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
9797 o Minor features (geoip):
9798 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9801 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
9802 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
9803 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
9804 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
9805 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
9806 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9808 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
9809 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
9810 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
9811 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9812 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
9813 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9815 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
9816 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
9817 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
9818 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
9821 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9822 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
9823 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
9824 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
9825 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
9826 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9827 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
9828 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
9830 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
9831 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
9832 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9834 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9835 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
9836 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
9837 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
9838 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9839 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
9840 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
9841 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9843 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
9844 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
9845 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
9848 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9849 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
9850 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9853 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
9854 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9855 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
9856 tickets 19287 and 19290.
9859 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
9860 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
9861 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
9862 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
9863 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
9866 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
9867 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
9868 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
9869 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
9870 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
9871 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
9872 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
9873 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
9874 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
9876 o Minor features (geoip):
9877 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9881 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
9882 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
9883 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
9884 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
9885 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
9888 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
9889 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
9890 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
9891 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
9892 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
9893 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
9894 be a release candidate.
9896 o Major features (security fixes):
9897 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
9898 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
9899 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
9900 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
9901 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
9902 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
9903 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
9904 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
9906 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
9907 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
9908 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
9909 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
9910 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
9911 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
9912 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
9913 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
9914 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
9915 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
9916 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
9917 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
9918 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
9919 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
9922 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
9923 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
9924 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
9926 o Minor features (client, directory):
9927 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
9928 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
9929 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
9932 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
9933 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
9936 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
9937 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
9938 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
9941 o Minor features (geoip):
9942 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9945 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
9946 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
9947 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
9948 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
9949 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
9951 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
9952 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
9953 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
9954 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
9957 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
9958 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
9959 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
9960 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
9961 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
9963 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
9964 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
9965 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
9968 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
9969 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
9970 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
9971 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
9973 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
9974 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
9975 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
9976 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
9978 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
9979 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
9980 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
9981 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
9984 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
9985 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
9986 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
9990 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
9991 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
9993 o Required libraries:
9994 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
9995 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
9996 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
9999 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
10000 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
10001 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
10002 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
10003 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
10004 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
10005 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
10006 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
10008 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
10009 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
10010 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
10011 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
10012 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
10013 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10015 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
10016 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
10017 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
10018 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
10019 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
10022 o Major features (circuit building, security):
10023 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
10024 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
10025 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
10027 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
10028 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
10030 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
10031 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
10032 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
10033 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
10034 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
10035 connections to their introduction and renzedvous points. One-hop
10036 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
10037 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
10038 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
10039 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
10040 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
10042 o Major features (resource management):
10043 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
10044 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
10045 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
10046 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
10047 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
10048 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
10050 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
10051 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
10052 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
10053 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
10055 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
10056 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
10057 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
10058 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10060 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
10061 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
10062 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
10063 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
10064 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
10065 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
10067 o Minor features (security, TLS):
10068 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
10069 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
10070 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
10071 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
10073 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
10074 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
10075 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
10076 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
10078 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
10079 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10082 o Minor feature (port flags):
10083 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
10084 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
10085 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
10086 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
10087 18693; patch by "teor".
10089 o Minor features (directory authority):
10090 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
10091 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
10092 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
10094 o Minor features (testing):
10095 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
10096 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
10097 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
10098 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
10100 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
10101 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
10102 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
10103 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
10104 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
10105 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
10106 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
10107 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
10108 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
10110 o Minor features (Tor2web):
10111 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
10112 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
10113 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
10115 o Minor features (unit tests):
10116 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
10117 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
10118 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
10119 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
10120 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
10121 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
10122 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
10123 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
10125 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
10126 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
10127 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
10128 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
10129 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
10130 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
10131 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
10132 assertion as a test failure.
10134 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
10135 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
10136 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
10137 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
10138 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
10139 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
10141 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
10142 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
10143 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
10144 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
10145 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
10146 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
10147 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
10148 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
10149 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
10150 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
10151 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10152 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
10153 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
10154 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
10155 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
10156 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10158 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
10159 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
10160 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
10161 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
10162 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10163 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
10164 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
10167 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
10168 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
10169 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
10170 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
10171 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
10172 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
10173 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
10176 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10177 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
10178 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
10179 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
10181 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
10182 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
10183 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
10185 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10186 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
10187 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
10188 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
10189 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
10190 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10192 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10193 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
10194 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
10195 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
10197 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
10198 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
10199 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
10201 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
10202 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
10203 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
10204 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
10205 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
10206 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
10208 o Minor bugfixes (options):
10209 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
10210 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
10212 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
10213 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
10214 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10217 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
10218 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
10219 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
10220 19678. Patch by teor.
10222 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
10223 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
10224 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
10225 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
10226 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
10227 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
10229 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
10230 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
10234 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
10235 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
10236 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
10237 who select public relays as their bridges.
10239 o Major bugfixes (crash):
10240 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
10241 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
10242 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
10243 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
10244 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10246 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
10247 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
10248 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
10249 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
10250 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
10253 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
10254 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
10255 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
10256 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
10258 o Minor features (geoip):
10259 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10263 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
10264 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
10265 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
10266 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
10267 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
10268 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
10270 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
10271 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10272 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
10274 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
10275 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
10276 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
10277 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
10278 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
10279 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10281 o Major features (user interface):
10282 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
10283 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
10284 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
10286 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
10287 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
10288 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
10289 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
10291 o Minor features (config):
10292 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
10293 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
10295 o Minor features (geoip):
10296 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10299 o Minor features (user interface):
10300 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
10301 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
10304 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
10305 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
10306 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
10308 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10309 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
10310 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
10312 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
10313 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
10314 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
10315 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10317 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
10318 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
10319 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
10322 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
10323 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
10324 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
10325 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
10327 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10328 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
10329 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
10331 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
10332 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
10333 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10335 o Deprecated features:
10336 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
10337 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
10338 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
10339 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
10340 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
10341 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
10342 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
10343 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
10344 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
10345 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
10346 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
10347 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
10348 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
10349 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
10350 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
10351 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
10352 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
10353 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
10354 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
10355 and TransListenAddress.
10358 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
10359 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
10362 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
10363 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
10366 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
10367 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
10368 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
10369 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
10370 encouraged to upgrade.
10372 o Directory authority changes:
10373 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10374 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
10376 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
10377 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
10378 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
10379 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
10380 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
10381 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10383 o Minor features (geoip):
10384 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10387 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10388 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
10389 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
10392 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
10393 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
10394 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
10395 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
10398 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
10399 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
10400 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
10401 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
10402 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
10403 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
10404 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
10405 security, correctness, and performance.
10407 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
10409 o New system requirements:
10410 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
10411 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
10412 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
10413 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
10414 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
10415 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
10416 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
10417 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
10419 o Major features (build, hardening):
10420 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
10421 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
10422 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
10423 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
10424 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
10425 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
10426 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
10427 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
10428 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
10430 o Major features (compilation):
10431 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
10432 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
10433 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
10434 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
10436 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
10437 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
10438 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
10440 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
10441 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
10442 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
10443 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
10444 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
10445 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
10446 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
10447 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
10449 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
10450 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
10451 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
10452 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
10453 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
10454 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
10455 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
10457 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
10458 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
10459 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
10460 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
10461 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
10462 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
10463 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
10465 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
10466 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
10467 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
10468 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
10469 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
10471 o Minor features (build, hardening):
10472 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
10473 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
10474 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
10475 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
10476 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
10477 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
10478 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
10479 Closes ticket 18895.
10481 o Minor features (code safety):
10482 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
10483 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
10486 o Minor features (controller):
10487 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
10488 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
10489 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
10490 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
10491 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
10492 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
10493 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
10494 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
10496 o Minor features (directory authority):
10497 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
10498 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
10499 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
10500 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
10501 Implements ticket 18624.
10502 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
10503 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
10504 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
10507 o Minor features (hidden service):
10508 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
10509 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
10510 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
10513 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
10514 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
10515 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
10516 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
10517 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
10518 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
10519 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
10520 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
10521 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
10522 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
10523 Closes ticket 18365.
10525 o Minor features (logging):
10526 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
10527 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
10528 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
10529 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
10530 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
10531 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
10532 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
10533 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
10534 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
10535 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
10537 o Minor features (performance):
10538 - Changer the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
10539 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
10540 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
10541 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
10542 from. Changing this default When fetching a consensus for the
10543 first time, use optimistic data. This saves a round-trip during
10544 startup. Closes ticket 18815.
10546 o Minor features (relay, usability):
10547 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
10548 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
10549 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
10550 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
10553 o Minor features (testing):
10554 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
10555 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10556 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
10557 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
10558 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
10559 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
10560 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
10561 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
10564 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
10565 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
10566 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
10567 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
10568 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10570 o Minor bugfixes (build):
10571 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
10572 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
10573 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
10574 patch from "cypherpunks".
10576 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
10577 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
10578 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10580 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10581 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
10582 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
10583 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10585 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
10586 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
10587 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
10588 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10589 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
10590 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
10591 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
10592 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
10594 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
10595 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
10596 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
10597 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
10598 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
10599 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
10600 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
10602 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
10603 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
10604 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
10607 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
10608 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
10609 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
10611 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
10612 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
10613 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
10616 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
10617 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
10618 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
10619 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
10622 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10623 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
10624 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
10626 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
10627 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
10628 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
10631 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10632 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
10633 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
10634 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
10635 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
10636 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
10637 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
10638 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
10639 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
10642 o Minor bugfixes (time):
10643 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
10644 bugfix on all released tor versions.
10645 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
10646 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
10647 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
10648 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10650 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
10651 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
10652 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
10653 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
10654 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
10656 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
10657 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10659 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10660 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
10662 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
10663 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
10664 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
10665 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
10668 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
10669 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
10671 o Removed features:
10672 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
10673 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
10674 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
10675 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
10676 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
10677 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
10678 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
10681 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
10682 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
10683 command-line options to enable them.
10684 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
10685 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
10688 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
10690 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
10692 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
10693 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
10694 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
10695 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
10696 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
10697 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
10699 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
10701 o Minor features (geoip):
10702 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10705 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10706 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
10707 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10709 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
10710 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
10711 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
10712 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
10714 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10715 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
10716 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
10717 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
10718 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
10719 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
10720 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
10721 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10724 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
10725 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
10726 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
10727 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
10728 against previous versions.
10730 o Directory authority changes:
10731 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
10733 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
10734 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
10735 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
10736 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
10738 o Minor features (build):
10739 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
10740 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
10741 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
10742 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
10743 Patch from intrigeri.
10745 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
10746 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
10747 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
10750 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
10751 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
10752 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
10753 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
10754 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
10757 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10758 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
10759 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
10760 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
10761 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
10762 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
10763 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
10765 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
10766 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
10767 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
10768 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
10770 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
10771 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
10772 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
10773 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
10774 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
10775 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10777 o Fallback directory list:
10778 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
10779 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
10780 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
10781 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
10782 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
10783 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
10784 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
10785 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
10786 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
10789 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
10790 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
10791 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
10792 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
10795 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
10796 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
10797 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
10798 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10800 o Minor features (build):
10801 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
10802 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
10804 o Minor features (geoip):
10805 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10808 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10809 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
10810 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10812 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
10813 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
10814 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
10815 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
10819 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
10820 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
10821 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
10822 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
10823 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
10826 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
10827 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
10828 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
10829 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
10830 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10832 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
10833 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
10834 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
10835 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
10836 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
10837 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
10839 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
10840 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
10841 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
10842 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10844 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
10845 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
10846 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
10847 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
10848 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
10849 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
10850 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
10852 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
10853 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
10855 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
10856 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
10857 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
10859 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
10860 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
10861 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
10862 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
10863 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
10864 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10867 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
10868 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
10869 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
10872 o Major bugfixes (key management):
10873 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
10874 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
10875 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
10876 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
10877 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
10878 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
10881 o Major bugfixes (testing):
10882 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
10883 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
10884 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
10885 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10887 o Minor features (clients):
10888 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
10889 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
10890 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
10892 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
10893 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
10894 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
10895 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
10896 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
10897 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
10898 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
10899 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
10900 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
10901 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
10903 o Minor features (geoip):
10904 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10907 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
10908 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
10909 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
10912 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
10913 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
10914 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
10916 o Minor bugfixes (build):
10917 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
10918 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
10920 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
10921 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
10923 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
10924 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
10927 o Minor bugfixes (client):
10928 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
10929 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
10930 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
10931 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10932 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
10933 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
10934 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10936 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
10937 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
10938 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
10939 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
10940 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
10942 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
10943 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
10944 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
10945 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10946 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
10947 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
10950 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
10951 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
10952 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
10953 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
10954 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
10955 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10957 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10958 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
10959 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
10960 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10961 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
10962 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10963 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
10964 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10966 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
10967 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
10968 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
10969 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
10971 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
10972 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
10973 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
10974 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
10975 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
10976 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
10979 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
10980 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
10981 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
10983 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
10984 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
10985 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
10987 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
10988 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
10989 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
10991 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10992 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
10993 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
10994 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
10995 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
10996 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
10997 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10999 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
11000 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
11001 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
11002 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
11005 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
11006 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
11007 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
11008 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
11011 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
11012 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
11013 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
11014 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
11015 directory support should also be much improved.
11017 o New system requirements:
11018 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
11019 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
11020 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
11021 longer runs with, these versions.
11022 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
11023 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
11024 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
11026 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
11027 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
11028 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
11029 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
11030 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
11032 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
11033 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
11034 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
11035 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
11036 Reported by Guido Vranken.
11038 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
11039 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
11040 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
11041 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
11042 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
11044 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
11045 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
11046 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
11047 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11049 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
11050 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
11051 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11052 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
11053 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11055 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
11056 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
11057 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
11058 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
11059 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
11060 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11063 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
11064 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
11065 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11067 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
11068 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
11069 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
11070 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
11073 o Major bugfixes (voting):
11074 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
11075 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
11076 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
11077 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
11079 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
11080 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
11081 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
11082 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11083 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
11084 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
11085 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
11086 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
11087 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
11088 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11090 o Minor features (security, win32):
11091 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
11092 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
11095 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
11096 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
11097 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
11098 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
11100 o Minor features (build):
11101 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
11102 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
11103 Steven Chamberlain.
11105 o Minor features (code hardening):
11106 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
11107 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
11108 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
11111 o Minor features (crypto):
11112 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
11113 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
11116 o Minor features (geoip):
11117 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11120 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
11121 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
11122 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
11123 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
11124 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
11126 o Minor features (IPv6):
11127 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
11128 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
11129 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
11130 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
11131 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
11132 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
11133 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
11135 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11136 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
11137 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
11138 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
11139 while fixing 18548.
11141 o Minor features (robustness):
11142 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
11143 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
11144 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
11146 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
11147 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
11148 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
11149 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
11150 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
11151 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
11152 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
11155 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
11156 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
11157 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
11158 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
11159 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
11161 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
11162 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
11163 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
11164 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
11166 o Minor bugfixes (build):
11167 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
11168 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
11170 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
11171 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
11172 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11173 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
11174 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
11175 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
11177 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
11178 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
11179 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
11180 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
11181 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11183 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
11184 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
11185 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
11186 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
11189 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
11190 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
11191 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
11193 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
11194 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
11195 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
11196 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
11198 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11199 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
11200 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
11201 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
11202 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
11203 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11205 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
11206 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
11207 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
11208 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
11210 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
11211 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
11212 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
11213 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
11214 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
11216 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
11217 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
11218 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
11219 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
11220 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
11221 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
11222 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
11223 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
11224 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
11227 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
11228 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
11229 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
11230 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11232 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
11233 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
11234 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
11236 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11237 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
11238 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
11239 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11240 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
11241 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
11242 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11243 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
11244 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11246 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11247 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
11248 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
11249 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
11250 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
11251 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
11252 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
11253 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
11254 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
11255 Christian, patch by teor.
11257 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
11258 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
11259 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
11260 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
11262 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
11263 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
11264 patch by "cypherpunks".
11265 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
11267 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
11268 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11270 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
11271 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
11272 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
11273 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
11275 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
11276 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
11277 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
11280 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11281 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
11282 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
11283 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
11284 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
11285 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11287 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
11288 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
11289 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
11290 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
11292 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
11293 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
11294 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
11295 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
11297 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11298 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
11299 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
11300 17744. Patch from zerosion.
11301 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
11302 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
11303 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
11304 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
11305 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
11308 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
11309 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
11310 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
11312 o Removed features:
11313 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
11314 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
11315 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
11318 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
11320 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
11321 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
11324 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
11325 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
11326 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
11327 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
11328 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
11330 o Major features (security, Linux):
11331 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
11332 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
11333 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
11334 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
11335 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
11337 o Major features (directory system):
11338 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
11339 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
11340 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
11341 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
11342 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
11343 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
11344 "mikeperry" and "teor".
11345 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
11346 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
11347 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
11348 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
11349 15775. Patch by "teor".
11350 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
11351 "gsathya", and "karsten".
11352 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
11353 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
11354 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
11355 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
11356 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
11359 o Major key updates:
11360 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
11361 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
11364 o Minor features (security, clock):
11365 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
11366 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
11367 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
11368 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
11370 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
11371 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
11372 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
11373 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
11374 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
11375 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
11377 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
11378 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
11379 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
11380 Implements ticket 17026.
11381 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
11382 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
11383 Implements feature 17986.
11384 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
11385 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
11386 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
11387 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
11388 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
11389 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
11392 o Minor features (security, RNG):
11393 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
11394 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
11395 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
11396 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
11397 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
11398 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
11399 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
11400 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
11401 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
11402 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
11405 o Minor features (accounting):
11406 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
11407 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
11408 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
11409 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
11411 o Minor features (build):
11412 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
11413 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
11414 patch from "cypherpunks."
11415 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
11416 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
11417 17549, 17921, and 17984.
11419 o Minor features (controller):
11420 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
11421 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
11422 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
11423 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
11424 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
11425 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
11426 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
11427 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
11430 o Minor features (crypto):
11431 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
11433 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
11434 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
11435 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
11436 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
11437 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
11438 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
11439 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
11440 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
11442 o Minor features (directory downloads):
11443 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
11444 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
11445 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
11446 17864; patch by "teor".
11447 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
11448 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
11449 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
11451 o Minor features (geoip):
11452 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11455 o Minor features (IPv6):
11456 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
11457 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
11458 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
11459 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
11460 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
11461 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
11462 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
11463 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
11464 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
11465 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
11466 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
11468 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
11469 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
11470 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
11471 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
11473 o Minor features (logging):
11474 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
11475 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
11476 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
11477 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
11480 o Minor features (portability):
11481 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
11482 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
11484 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
11485 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
11486 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
11487 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
11488 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
11490 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
11491 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
11492 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
11493 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
11494 Resolves ticket 17951.
11496 o Minor features (replay cache):
11497 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
11498 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
11500 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
11501 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
11502 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
11503 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
11504 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
11505 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
11506 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
11507 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
11508 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
11509 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
11510 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
11511 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
11512 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
11513 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
11515 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
11516 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
11517 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
11518 from "unixninja92".
11520 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
11521 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
11522 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
11523 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
11524 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
11525 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
11527 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
11530 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11531 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
11532 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
11533 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11534 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
11535 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
11536 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11537 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
11539 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
11540 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
11541 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
11542 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
11543 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
11544 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
11545 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
11546 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
11548 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
11549 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
11551 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
11552 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
11553 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
11555 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
11556 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
11557 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
11558 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
11560 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
11561 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
11562 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
11564 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11565 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
11566 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
11568 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11569 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
11570 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
11571 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
11572 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
11574 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
11575 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
11577 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11578 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
11579 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
11582 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
11583 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
11584 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
11585 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
11586 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
11587 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
11589 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
11590 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
11591 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
11592 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
11593 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
11595 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
11596 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
11597 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
11600 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
11601 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
11602 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
11603 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11604 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
11605 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
11606 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
11607 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
11610 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11611 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
11612 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
11613 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
11614 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
11615 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11616 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
11617 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
11618 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
11619 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
11621 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
11622 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
11624 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11625 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
11626 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
11627 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
11628 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
11629 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
11630 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
11631 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
11632 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
11633 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
11635 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
11636 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
11637 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
11638 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
11640 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
11641 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
11642 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
11643 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
11644 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
11646 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
11647 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
11650 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
11651 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
11652 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
11653 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
11654 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
11655 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
11656 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
11659 o Removed features:
11660 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
11661 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
11662 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
11663 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
11664 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
11667 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
11668 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
11669 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
11670 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
11671 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
11672 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
11673 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
11674 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
11675 portion of ticket 16831.
11676 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
11677 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
11678 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
11680 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
11681 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
11684 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
11685 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
11686 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
11688 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
11689 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
11690 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
11691 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
11692 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
11693 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
11696 o Minor features (geoip):
11697 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
11700 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11701 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
11702 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
11703 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
11704 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
11705 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
11707 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11708 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
11709 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
11710 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
11711 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
11712 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
11713 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
11714 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11715 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
11716 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11719 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
11720 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
11721 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
11722 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
11723 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
11724 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
11725 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
11726 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
11727 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
11728 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
11729 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
11730 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
11731 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
11732 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
11733 that would make him proud.
11735 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
11737 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
11738 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
11739 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
11740 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
11741 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
11742 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
11743 of Tor invoke which others.
11745 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
11748 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
11749 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
11750 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
11751 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
11752 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
11753 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
11754 release will the the official stable release.
11756 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
11757 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
11758 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
11759 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
11760 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
11763 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
11764 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
11765 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
11767 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
11768 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
11769 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
11770 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
11771 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
11772 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
11773 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
11775 o Minor features (geoIP):
11776 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
11779 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11780 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
11781 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
11782 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
11783 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11784 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
11785 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
11787 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11788 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
11789 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
11792 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
11793 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
11794 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
11795 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
11797 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11798 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
11799 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
11800 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
11801 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
11802 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
11803 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
11804 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
11805 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
11806 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
11807 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
11811 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
11812 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
11816 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
11817 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
11818 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
11819 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
11820 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
11822 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
11823 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
11824 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
11825 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
11827 o Major features (security, hidden services):
11828 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
11829 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
11830 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
11831 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
11832 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
11833 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
11834 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
11836 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
11837 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
11838 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
11839 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
11840 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
11841 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
11844 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
11845 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
11846 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
11847 available. Implements ticket 16535.
11848 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
11849 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
11852 o Major features (performance testing):
11853 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
11854 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
11855 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
11857 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
11858 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
11859 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
11860 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
11862 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
11863 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
11864 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
11865 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
11866 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
11867 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
11869 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
11870 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
11872 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
11873 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
11874 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
11875 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
11876 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
11878 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
11879 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
11880 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
11881 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
11882 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
11883 own. Implements feature 15482.
11884 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
11885 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
11887 o Minor features (compilation):
11888 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
11889 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
11890 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
11891 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
11892 which started requiring ECC.
11894 o Minor features (geoip):
11895 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
11898 o Minor features (hidden services):
11899 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
11900 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
11901 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
11902 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
11903 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
11904 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
11905 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
11906 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
11908 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
11909 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
11910 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
11913 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
11914 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
11915 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
11916 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
11918 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
11919 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
11920 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
11921 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
11922 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
11924 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
11925 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
11926 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
11927 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
11928 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11929 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
11930 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
11931 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
11932 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
11933 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
11934 Related to ticket 16069.
11935 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
11936 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
11937 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
11938 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
11939 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
11940 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11942 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
11943 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
11944 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11945 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
11946 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
11948 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
11949 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
11950 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11952 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
11953 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
11954 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
11955 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11957 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11958 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
11959 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
11960 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
11961 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11963 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11964 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
11965 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
11966 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
11967 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
11968 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
11969 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
11970 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
11971 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
11972 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
11973 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
11976 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
11977 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
11978 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11980 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11981 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
11982 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11983 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
11984 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11986 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
11987 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
11988 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
11989 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
11991 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11992 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
11993 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
11995 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
11996 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11997 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
11998 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
11999 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
12000 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12001 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
12002 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12004 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12005 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
12006 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
12007 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
12008 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
12010 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
12011 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
12014 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12015 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
12016 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
12017 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
12018 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
12019 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
12020 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
12021 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
12022 function. Closes ticket 16763.
12023 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
12024 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
12025 suite of other microdesc functions.
12026 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
12027 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
12028 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
12029 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
12030 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
12031 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
12032 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
12033 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
12034 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
12035 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
12037 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
12038 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
12040 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
12043 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
12044 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
12045 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
12046 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
12050 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
12051 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
12052 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
12053 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
12054 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
12055 Closes ticket 13338.
12056 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
12057 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
12058 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
12059 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
12060 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
12061 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
12064 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
12065 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
12066 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
12067 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
12068 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
12069 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
12070 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
12072 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
12073 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
12074 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
12075 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
12076 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
12077 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
12078 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
12079 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
12080 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
12081 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
12082 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
12083 network before we begin.
12084 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
12085 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
12086 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
12087 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
12088 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
12089 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
12090 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
12091 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
12094 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
12095 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
12096 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
12097 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
12098 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
12099 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
12101 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
12102 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
12103 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
12105 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
12106 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
12107 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
12108 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
12109 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
12110 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
12111 Implements part of ticket 12498.
12112 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
12113 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
12114 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
12115 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
12116 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
12117 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
12118 part of ticket 12498.
12119 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
12120 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
12121 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
12122 key). Closes ticket 13642.
12124 o Major features (Hidden services):
12125 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
12126 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
12127 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
12128 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
12129 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
12131 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
12132 introduction points, which used to change the number of
12133 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
12134 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
12136 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
12137 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
12138 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
12139 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
12140 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
12141 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
12143 o Major features (performance):
12144 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
12145 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
12146 Implements ticket 16467.
12147 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
12148 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
12149 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
12150 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
12152 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
12153 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
12154 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
12155 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
12156 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
12157 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
12159 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
12160 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
12161 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
12162 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
12163 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
12164 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
12165 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
12166 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
12169 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
12170 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
12171 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
12172 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
12173 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
12174 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
12175 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
12178 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
12179 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
12180 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
12181 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
12182 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
12183 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
12185 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
12186 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
12187 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
12188 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
12189 by "cypherpunks_backup".
12190 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
12191 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
12192 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
12195 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
12196 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
12197 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
12198 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
12199 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
12200 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
12201 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
12203 o Minor features (client):
12204 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
12205 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
12206 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
12208 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
12209 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
12210 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
12211 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12212 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
12213 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
12214 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
12217 o Minor features (control protocol):
12218 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
12219 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
12221 o Minor features (directory authorities):
12222 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
12223 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
12224 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
12225 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
12226 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
12228 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
12229 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
12230 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
12232 o Minor features (hidden services):
12233 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
12234 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
12235 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
12236 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
12239 o Minor features (portability):
12240 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
12241 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
12242 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
12244 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
12245 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
12246 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
12247 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
12249 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12250 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
12251 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
12252 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12254 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
12255 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
12256 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
12257 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
12258 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
12259 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
12261 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12262 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
12263 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
12264 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12265 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
12266 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
12267 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12269 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12270 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
12271 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12273 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
12274 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
12275 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
12276 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
12278 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
12279 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
12280 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
12281 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
12283 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
12284 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
12287 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12288 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
12289 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
12290 from "cypherpunks".
12292 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
12293 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
12294 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12295 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
12296 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
12297 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
12299 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
12300 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
12301 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12303 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
12304 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
12305 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
12307 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
12308 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
12309 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12310 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
12311 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12312 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
12313 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
12314 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
12315 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12317 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12318 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
12319 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
12320 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
12321 haven't supported that in ages.
12322 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
12323 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
12324 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
12325 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
12328 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
12329 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
12330 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
12331 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
12332 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
12333 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
12335 o Removed features:
12336 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
12337 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
12338 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
12339 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
12340 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
12341 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
12342 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
12343 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
12344 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
12345 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
12346 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
12347 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
12348 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
12349 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
12350 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
12351 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
12352 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
12355 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
12356 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
12357 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
12358 Closes ticket 15817.
12359 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
12360 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
12362 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
12363 default as a part of "make check".
12364 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
12365 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
12366 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
12367 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
12371 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
12372 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
12373 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
12374 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
12375 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
12376 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
12378 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
12379 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
12380 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
12381 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
12382 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
12383 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
12384 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
12385 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
12388 o Major bugfixes (stability):
12389 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
12390 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
12391 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
12392 by "cypherpunks_backup".
12393 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
12394 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
12395 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
12398 o Minor features (geoip):
12399 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
12400 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
12402 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
12403 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
12404 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
12405 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
12406 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
12407 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
12409 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12410 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
12411 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
12412 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
12415 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
12416 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
12417 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
12418 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
12419 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
12421 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
12422 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
12423 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
12424 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
12425 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
12428 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
12429 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
12430 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
12431 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
12432 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
12433 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
12434 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
12436 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12437 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
12438 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
12439 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
12441 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12442 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
12443 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
12444 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
12445 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
12446 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
12449 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
12450 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
12451 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
12454 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
12455 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
12456 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
12457 authorities should upgrade.
12459 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
12460 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
12461 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
12462 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
12465 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
12466 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
12467 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
12470 o Minor features (geoip):
12471 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
12472 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
12476 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
12477 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
12478 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
12479 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
12480 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
12481 the hidden services subsystem.
12483 o New system requirements:
12484 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
12485 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
12488 o Major features (controller):
12489 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
12490 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
12492 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
12493 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
12494 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
12495 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
12496 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
12497 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
12498 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
12500 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
12501 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
12502 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
12503 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
12506 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
12507 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
12508 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
12509 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
12510 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
12512 o Minor features (command-line interface):
12513 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
12514 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12515 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
12516 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
12518 o Minor features (controller):
12519 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
12520 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
12521 present. Implements ticket 14840.
12522 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
12523 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
12524 Closes ticket 14845.
12525 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
12526 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
12527 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
12529 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
12530 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
12531 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
12532 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
12534 o Minor features (geoip):
12535 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
12536 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
12539 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
12540 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
12541 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
12542 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
12543 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
12544 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
12545 Closes ticket 15745.
12547 o Minor features (logging):
12548 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
12549 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
12552 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
12553 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
12554 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
12555 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
12557 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
12558 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
12559 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
12560 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
12561 Resolves ticket 15435.
12563 o Minor features (testing):
12564 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
12565 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
12566 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
12567 files. Closes ticket 15180.
12568 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
12569 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
12570 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
12571 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
12572 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
12573 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
12574 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
12575 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
12576 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
12577 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
12578 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
12579 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
12581 o Minor bugfixes (build):
12582 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
12583 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
12586 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
12587 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
12588 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
12590 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
12591 stderr, not stdout.
12593 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
12594 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
12595 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
12596 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
12597 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
12598 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
12599 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
12600 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12602 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12603 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
12604 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
12606 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
12607 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
12608 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
12611 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
12612 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
12613 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
12615 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
12616 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12618 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
12619 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
12620 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
12621 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
12624 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
12625 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
12626 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
12627 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
12628 recent enough Clang.
12630 o Minor bugfixes (network):
12631 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
12632 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
12633 unsuitable for public communications.
12635 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
12636 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
12637 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
12638 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
12639 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
12640 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
12642 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
12643 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
12644 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
12645 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
12646 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
12647 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
12648 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
12649 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
12651 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12652 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
12653 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
12655 - Set the severity correctly when testing
12656 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
12657 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
12658 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
12659 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
12661 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12662 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
12663 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
12665 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
12666 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
12667 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
12668 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
12669 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
12672 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
12673 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
12675 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
12676 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12677 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
12678 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
12679 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
12682 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
12683 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
12684 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
12685 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
12686 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
12687 Closes ticket 14922.
12689 o Removed features:
12690 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
12691 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
12692 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
12693 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
12694 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
12695 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
12696 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
12697 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
12698 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
12699 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
12700 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
12703 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
12704 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
12705 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
12706 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
12707 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
12709 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
12710 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
12712 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
12713 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
12714 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
12715 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
12716 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
12717 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
12718 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
12720 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
12721 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
12722 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
12723 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
12724 Resolves ticket 15515.
12727 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
12728 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
12729 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
12730 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
12731 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
12733 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
12734 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
12736 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
12737 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
12738 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
12739 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
12740 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
12741 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
12742 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
12744 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
12745 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
12746 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
12747 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
12748 Resolves ticket 15515.
12751 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
12752 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
12753 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
12754 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
12755 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
12757 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
12758 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
12760 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
12761 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
12762 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
12763 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
12764 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
12765 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
12766 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
12768 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
12769 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
12770 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
12771 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
12772 Resolves ticket 15515.
12773 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
12774 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
12775 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
12779 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
12780 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
12782 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
12783 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
12784 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
12785 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
12786 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
12787 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
12788 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
12789 bugs should be addressed.
12791 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12792 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
12793 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
12794 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
12796 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
12797 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
12798 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
12800 o Major bugfixes (client):
12801 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
12802 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
12805 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
12806 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
12807 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
12808 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
12809 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
12810 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12812 o Major bugfixes (portability):
12813 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
12814 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
12817 o Minor features (heartbeat):
12818 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
12819 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
12820 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
12821 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
12823 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12824 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
12825 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
12828 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
12829 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
12831 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
12832 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
12833 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
12835 o Directory authority changes:
12836 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
12837 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
12838 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
12839 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
12840 closes ticket 14487.
12842 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
12843 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
12844 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
12847 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
12848 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
12849 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
12850 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
12851 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
12852 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
12853 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
12854 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12856 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
12857 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
12858 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
12859 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
12861 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12862 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
12863 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
12864 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
12866 o Minor features (controller):
12867 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
12868 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
12869 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
12871 o Minor features (geoip):
12872 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
12873 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
12876 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
12877 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
12878 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
12879 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12880 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
12881 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12883 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12884 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
12885 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
12886 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
12888 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
12889 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
12890 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
12891 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
12892 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
12893 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
12894 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
12895 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
12897 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
12898 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
12899 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12901 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
12902 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
12903 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
12904 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
12905 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
12909 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
12910 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
12911 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
12914 o Directory authority changes:
12915 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
12916 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
12917 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
12918 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
12919 closes ticket 14487.
12921 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
12922 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
12923 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
12924 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
12926 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
12927 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
12928 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
12929 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
12930 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
12931 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
12932 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
12933 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12935 o Minor features (geoip):
12936 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
12937 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
12940 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
12941 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
12942 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
12943 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
12944 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
12946 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
12947 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
12948 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
12951 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
12952 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
12953 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
12954 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
12955 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12956 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
12957 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
12958 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12960 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
12961 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
12962 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
12965 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12966 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
12967 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
12969 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
12970 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12971 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
12972 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
12973 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
12975 o Minor features (controller):
12976 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
12977 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
12978 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
12980 o Minor features (geoip):
12981 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
12982 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
12985 o Minor features (logs):
12986 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
12989 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
12990 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
12991 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
12992 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12993 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
12994 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
12995 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
12996 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
12997 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
12999 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13000 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
13002 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
13005 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13006 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
13007 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
13009 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
13010 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
13011 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
13012 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
13013 from "cypherpunks".
13014 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
13015 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
13018 o Directory authority IP change:
13019 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
13020 closes ticket 14487.
13023 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
13024 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
13025 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
13029 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
13030 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
13031 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
13032 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
13033 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
13034 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
13036 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
13037 the next version will be a release candidate.
13039 o Deprecated versions:
13040 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
13041 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
13043 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
13044 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
13045 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
13046 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
13047 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
13048 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
13050 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
13051 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
13052 Implements ticket 11485.
13054 o Major features (changed defaults):
13055 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
13056 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
13057 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
13058 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
13059 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
13060 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
13062 o Major features (directory system):
13063 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
13064 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
13065 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
13066 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
13067 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
13068 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
13069 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
13070 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
13071 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
13072 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
13073 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
13074 227. Closes ticket 10395.
13076 o Major features (guards):
13077 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
13078 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
13079 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
13080 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
13081 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
13083 o Major features (performance):
13084 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
13085 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
13086 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
13087 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
13088 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
13089 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
13090 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
13091 Implements ticket 9682.
13093 o Major features (relay):
13094 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
13095 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
13096 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
13098 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
13099 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
13100 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
13101 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
13103 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
13104 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
13105 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
13106 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
13107 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
13108 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
13109 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
13111 o Minor features (build):
13112 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
13113 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
13114 Resolves ticket 13037.
13116 o Minor features (controller):
13117 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
13118 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
13120 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
13121 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
13122 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
13123 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
13124 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
13125 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
13127 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
13128 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
13129 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
13130 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
13131 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
13132 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
13133 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
13134 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
13135 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
13136 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
13138 o Minor features (geoip):
13139 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
13140 GeoLite2 Country database.
13142 o Minor features (guard nodes):
13143 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
13144 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
13145 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
13147 o Minor features (hidden service):
13148 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
13149 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
13150 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
13151 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
13152 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
13153 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
13154 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
13155 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
13157 o Minor features (interface):
13158 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
13159 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
13160 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
13162 o Minor features (logging):
13163 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
13164 Resolves ticket 6852.
13165 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
13166 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
13167 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
13169 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
13170 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
13172 o Minor features (stability):
13173 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
13174 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
13177 o Minor features (systemd):
13178 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
13179 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
13181 o Minor features (testing networks):
13182 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
13183 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
13184 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
13185 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
13186 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
13187 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
13189 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
13190 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
13191 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
13192 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
13193 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
13195 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
13196 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
13197 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
13198 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
13199 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
13201 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
13202 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
13203 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
13204 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
13205 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
13206 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
13207 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
13208 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13210 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
13211 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
13212 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
13213 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
13214 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
13215 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
13216 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
13217 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
13219 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
13220 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
13221 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
13224 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
13225 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
13226 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
13227 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
13228 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
13230 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
13231 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
13232 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
13233 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
13234 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13236 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13237 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
13238 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
13239 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
13240 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
13241 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
13242 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
13243 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
13244 Addresses ticket 14188.
13245 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
13246 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
13247 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
13248 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
13249 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
13250 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
13251 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
13252 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
13253 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13255 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13256 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
13257 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
13258 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
13259 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
13260 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
13261 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
13262 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13264 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
13265 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
13266 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
13267 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
13268 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
13269 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
13270 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
13271 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13272 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
13273 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13274 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
13275 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
13276 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
13278 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
13279 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
13280 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
13281 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
13282 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
13283 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
13284 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
13285 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
13286 state, and key files.
13287 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
13288 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
13291 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13292 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
13293 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
13294 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
13295 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13296 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
13297 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
13298 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13299 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
13300 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
13301 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13303 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13304 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
13305 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13306 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
13308 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
13309 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13311 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
13312 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
13313 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
13314 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
13315 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
13316 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13318 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
13319 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
13320 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
13321 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13322 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
13323 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
13324 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13325 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
13326 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
13327 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13329 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13330 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
13331 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
13333 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
13334 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
13336 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
13337 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
13338 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
13339 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
13340 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13342 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
13343 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
13344 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
13345 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
13348 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
13349 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
13350 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
13353 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
13354 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
13355 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13357 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
13358 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
13359 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
13360 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
13361 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
13362 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
13363 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
13365 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
13366 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
13369 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
13370 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
13371 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
13373 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
13374 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
13375 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
13378 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13379 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
13380 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
13381 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
13382 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
13383 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
13384 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
13385 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
13386 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
13388 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
13389 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
13391 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
13395 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
13396 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
13397 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
13398 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
13399 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
13400 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
13402 o Downgraded warnings:
13403 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
13404 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
13406 o Removed features:
13407 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
13408 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
13409 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
13410 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
13411 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
13415 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
13416 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13417 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
13418 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
13419 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
13420 (existing behavior).
13421 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
13422 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
13423 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
13424 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
13425 Closes ticket 14107.
13426 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
13427 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
13428 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
13429 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
13431 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
13432 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
13433 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13436 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
13437 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
13438 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
13439 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
13440 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
13441 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
13443 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
13444 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
13445 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
13446 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
13448 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
13449 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
13450 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
13451 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
13452 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
13453 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
13455 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
13456 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
13457 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
13458 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
13459 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
13460 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
13461 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
13464 o Major features (hidden services):
13465 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
13466 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
13467 Closes ticket 13667.
13468 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
13469 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
13470 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
13471 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
13472 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
13473 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
13474 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
13475 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
13476 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
13477 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
13478 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
13480 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
13481 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
13482 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
13483 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
13484 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
13485 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
13488 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
13489 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
13490 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
13491 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
13492 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
13493 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
13495 o Directory authority changes:
13496 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
13497 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
13498 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
13500 o Major removed features:
13501 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
13502 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
13503 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
13504 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
13506 o Minor features (client):
13507 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
13508 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
13509 Resolves ticket 13315.
13511 o Minor features (controller):
13512 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
13513 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
13516 o Minor features (geoip):
13517 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
13520 o Minor features (hidden services):
13521 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
13522 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
13523 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
13524 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
13525 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
13526 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
13528 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
13529 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
13530 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
13532 o Minor features (systemd):
13533 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
13534 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
13535 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
13536 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
13538 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
13539 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
13540 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
13541 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
13542 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
13545 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
13546 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
13547 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
13548 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
13549 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
13551 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
13552 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
13553 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
13556 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
13557 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
13558 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
13559 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
13560 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
13562 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
13563 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
13564 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13566 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13567 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
13568 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
13569 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
13570 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
13572 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
13573 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
13576 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13577 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
13578 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
13579 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
13580 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
13581 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
13582 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
13583 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
13584 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13585 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
13586 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
13587 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
13588 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
13589 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
13592 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13593 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
13594 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
13595 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
13596 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
13597 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
13599 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13600 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
13601 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
13602 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
13604 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
13605 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13607 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
13608 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
13609 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
13610 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
13613 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
13614 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
13615 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
13616 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
13617 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
13618 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
13620 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
13621 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
13622 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
13623 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
13624 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
13625 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
13626 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
13627 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
13628 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
13629 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
13630 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
13631 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
13632 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
13633 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
13634 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
13635 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
13636 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
13637 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
13638 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
13639 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
13640 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
13641 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
13642 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
13643 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
13644 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
13645 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
13646 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
13647 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
13648 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
13649 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
13650 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
13651 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
13653 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
13654 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
13655 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
13656 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
13657 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
13659 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13660 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
13661 with a function instead.
13662 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
13663 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
13664 Closes ticket 13172.
13665 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
13666 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
13667 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
13668 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
13669 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
13670 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
13671 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
13672 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
13673 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
13674 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
13675 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
13676 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
13680 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
13681 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
13682 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
13683 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
13684 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
13685 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
13686 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
13687 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
13688 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
13689 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
13690 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
13691 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
13694 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
13695 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
13696 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
13697 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
13698 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
13699 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
13701 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
13705 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
13706 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
13707 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
13708 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
13709 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
13710 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
13711 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
13712 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
13713 of introducing infinite download loops.
13715 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
13716 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
13717 with 0.2.5.x for now.
13719 o New compiler and system requirements:
13720 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
13721 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
13722 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
13723 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
13725 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
13726 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
13727 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
13728 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
13729 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
13730 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
13731 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
13732 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
13733 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
13735 o Removed platform support:
13736 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
13737 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
13738 Closes ticket 11446.
13740 o Major features (bridges):
13741 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
13742 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
13743 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
13746 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
13747 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
13748 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
13749 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
13752 o Major features (directory system):
13753 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
13754 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
13755 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
13756 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
13758 o Major features (sample torrc):
13759 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
13760 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
13761 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
13762 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
13763 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
13764 generally useful "sample torrc".
13766 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
13767 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
13768 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13770 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
13771 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
13772 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
13773 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
13774 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
13776 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
13777 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
13778 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
13779 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
13781 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
13782 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
13783 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
13784 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
13785 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
13786 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
13789 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
13790 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
13791 document. Implements feature 10427.
13793 o Minor features (client):
13794 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
13795 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
13796 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
13797 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
13799 o Minor features (directory authorities):
13800 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
13801 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
13802 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
13803 argument more than once.
13804 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
13805 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
13806 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
13807 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
13808 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
13809 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
13811 o Minor features (logging):
13812 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
13813 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
13814 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
13815 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
13816 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
13817 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
13818 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
13819 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
13820 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
13822 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
13823 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
13824 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
13825 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
13827 o Minor features (relay):
13828 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
13829 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
13830 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
13832 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
13833 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
13834 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
13835 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
13837 o Minor features (testing networks):
13838 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
13839 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
13840 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
13841 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
13842 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
13845 o Minor features (validation):
13846 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
13847 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
13848 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
13849 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
13850 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
13851 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
13852 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
13853 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
13855 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
13856 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
13857 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
13858 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
13860 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
13861 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
13862 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
13863 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
13865 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
13866 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
13867 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
13869 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
13870 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
13871 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
13873 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
13874 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13875 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
13876 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
13877 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
13878 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
13879 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
13881 o Minor bugfixes (client):
13882 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
13883 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
13884 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
13885 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
13886 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
13887 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
13888 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
13889 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
13891 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
13892 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
13893 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
13894 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
13895 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
13897 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
13898 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
13899 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
13901 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13902 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
13903 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
13904 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
13905 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
13907 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
13908 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
13909 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
13910 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13911 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
13912 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
13913 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13914 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
13915 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
13916 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
13917 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
13920 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
13921 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
13922 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
13923 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
13924 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
13926 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13927 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
13928 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
13929 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
13930 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
13933 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
13934 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
13935 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13936 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
13937 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
13938 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
13940 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13941 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
13942 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
13943 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
13945 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
13946 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
13947 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
13948 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
13950 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
13951 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
13952 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
13953 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
13956 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
13957 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
13958 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
13961 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
13962 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13963 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
13964 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
13965 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
13968 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13969 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
13970 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
13972 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
13973 Resolves ticket 12205.
13974 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
13975 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
13976 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
13977 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
13979 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
13980 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
13981 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
13983 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
13984 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
13986 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
13987 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
13988 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
13989 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
13990 or_options_t structure.
13993 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
13994 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
13995 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
13996 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
13999 o Removed features:
14000 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
14001 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
14002 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
14003 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
14004 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
14005 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
14006 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
14007 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
14008 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
14010 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
14011 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
14013 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
14014 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
14015 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
14016 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
14017 anymore, and ignore it.
14020 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
14021 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
14022 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
14023 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
14024 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
14025 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
14026 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
14027 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
14028 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
14029 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
14030 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
14031 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
14033 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
14034 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
14035 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
14037 o Distribution (systemd):
14038 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
14039 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
14040 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
14041 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
14042 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
14044 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
14045 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
14047 o Removed features (directory authorities):
14048 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
14049 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
14050 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
14051 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
14052 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
14053 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
14054 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
14055 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
14056 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
14058 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
14059 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
14060 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
14061 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
14064 o Testing (test-network.sh):
14065 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
14066 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
14068 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
14070 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
14071 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
14072 Partially implements ticket 13161.
14075 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
14076 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
14078 It adds several new security features, including improved
14079 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
14080 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
14081 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
14082 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
14083 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
14084 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
14085 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
14086 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
14087 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
14088 and features mentioned below.
14090 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
14091 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
14093 o Deprecated versions:
14094 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
14095 attention for some while.
14098 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
14099 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
14100 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
14101 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
14102 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
14103 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
14105 o Major security fixes:
14106 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
14107 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
14108 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
14110 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
14111 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
14112 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
14113 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
14116 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
14117 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
14118 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
14119 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
14121 o Compilation fixes:
14122 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
14123 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
14124 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
14126 o Downgraded warnings:
14127 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
14128 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
14131 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
14132 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
14133 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
14134 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
14135 (which does affect Tor).
14137 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
14138 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
14139 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
14140 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
14142 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
14143 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
14144 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
14145 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
14148 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
14149 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
14150 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
14151 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
14152 the directory authorities.
14155 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
14156 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
14157 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
14158 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
14159 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
14160 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
14161 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
14162 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
14163 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
14164 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
14165 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
14166 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
14168 o Directory authority changes:
14169 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
14172 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
14173 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
14174 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
14175 the directory authorities.
14178 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
14179 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
14180 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
14181 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
14182 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
14183 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
14184 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
14185 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
14186 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
14187 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
14188 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
14189 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
14191 o Directory authority changes:
14192 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
14194 o Minor features (geoip):
14195 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
14199 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
14200 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
14201 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
14202 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
14203 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
14205 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
14206 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
14207 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
14208 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
14209 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
14210 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
14211 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14212 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
14213 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
14214 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
14215 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
14216 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
14217 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
14218 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14219 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
14220 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
14222 o Major bugfixes (relay):
14223 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
14224 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14225 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
14226 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
14227 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
14228 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
14229 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14231 o Minor features (bridge):
14232 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
14233 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
14235 o Minor features (geoip):
14236 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
14239 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14240 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
14241 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
14242 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
14243 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
14244 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
14245 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
14246 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
14247 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
14248 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
14249 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
14250 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
14251 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
14252 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
14253 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
14255 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
14256 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
14257 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
14258 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
14259 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
14261 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14262 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
14263 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14264 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
14265 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
14268 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14269 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
14270 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
14271 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
14272 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
14273 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
14274 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
14275 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
14276 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
14277 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
14278 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
14281 o Distribution (systemd):
14282 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
14283 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
14284 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
14285 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
14286 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
14287 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
14288 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
14289 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
14290 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
14294 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
14295 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
14297 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
14301 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
14302 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
14303 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
14304 us closer to a release candidate.
14306 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
14307 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
14308 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
14309 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
14310 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
14312 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
14313 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
14314 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
14315 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
14316 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
14317 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
14318 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
14319 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
14320 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
14324 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
14325 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
14326 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
14327 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
14328 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
14329 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
14330 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
14331 to build circuits".
14334 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
14335 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
14336 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
14337 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
14338 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
14339 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
14340 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
14341 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
14343 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
14345 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
14346 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
14347 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
14348 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
14349 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
14350 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
14351 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
14352 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
14353 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
14354 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14357 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
14358 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
14359 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
14360 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
14362 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
14363 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
14364 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
14367 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
14368 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
14369 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
14370 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
14373 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
14374 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
14375 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
14376 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
14377 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
14378 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
14379 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
14380 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
14381 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
14382 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
14385 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
14386 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
14387 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
14388 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
14389 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
14390 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
14391 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
14392 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
14396 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
14397 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
14398 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
14399 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
14400 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
14401 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
14402 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
14403 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
14404 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14405 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
14406 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
14407 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
14408 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
14411 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
14415 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
14416 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
14417 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
14418 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
14419 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
14420 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
14423 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
14424 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
14425 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
14426 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
14427 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
14428 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
14429 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
14430 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
14431 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
14432 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
14433 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
14434 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
14435 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14437 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
14438 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
14439 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
14440 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
14443 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
14444 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
14445 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
14447 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
14448 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
14449 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
14450 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
14451 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
14452 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
14453 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
14454 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
14455 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
14456 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
14457 router's identity is not forgeable.
14459 o Major bugfixes (relay):
14460 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
14461 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
14462 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
14463 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
14464 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
14465 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
14466 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
14467 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
14468 bugfix on every version of Tor.
14470 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
14471 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
14472 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
14473 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
14476 o Minor features (diagnostic):
14477 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
14478 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
14479 help diagnose bug 7164.
14480 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
14481 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
14482 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
14483 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
14484 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
14486 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
14487 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
14488 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
14489 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
14490 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
14491 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
14492 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
14494 o Minor features (security, memory management):
14495 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
14496 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
14497 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
14498 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
14499 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
14500 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
14502 o Minor features (security):
14503 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
14504 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
14505 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
14506 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
14508 o Minor features (build):
14509 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
14510 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
14511 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
14513 o Minor features (other):
14514 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
14517 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
14518 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
14519 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
14520 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
14521 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14523 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
14524 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
14525 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
14526 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
14527 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
14528 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
14529 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
14530 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
14531 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
14532 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
14533 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
14534 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
14536 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14537 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
14538 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
14539 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
14540 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
14541 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
14542 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
14543 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
14544 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
14545 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
14546 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
14547 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
14548 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
14549 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
14550 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
14551 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
14552 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
14553 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
14556 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
14557 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
14558 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
14559 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
14560 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
14561 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
14562 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
14564 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
14565 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
14566 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14567 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
14568 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14569 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
14570 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14571 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
14572 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
14574 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
14575 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
14577 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
14578 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
14580 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
14581 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
14582 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14583 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
14584 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
14585 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14586 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
14587 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
14588 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
14590 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
14591 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
14592 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
14593 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
14594 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
14595 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14596 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
14597 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
14598 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14599 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
14600 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
14601 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14602 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
14603 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
14604 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
14605 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
14606 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
14607 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14609 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
14610 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
14611 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
14612 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
14613 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
14614 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14615 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
14616 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
14617 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
14620 o Minor bugfixes (client):
14621 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
14622 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
14623 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
14624 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
14626 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14627 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
14628 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
14629 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
14631 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
14632 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
14633 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
14634 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14635 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
14636 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
14637 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
14638 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
14640 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
14641 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
14642 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
14643 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
14646 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
14647 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
14648 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
14649 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
14650 versions. Found by "skruffy".
14651 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
14652 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
14653 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
14656 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
14657 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
14658 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
14659 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
14662 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
14663 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
14664 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
14665 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
14667 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
14668 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
14669 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
14671 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
14672 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
14673 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
14675 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14676 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
14677 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
14678 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
14679 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
14683 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
14684 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
14685 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
14686 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
14689 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
14690 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
14691 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
14692 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
14694 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
14695 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
14697 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
14698 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
14699 caches don't get confused.
14702 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
14703 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
14704 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
14705 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
14706 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
14709 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
14710 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
14711 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
14712 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
14713 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
14714 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
14718 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
14719 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
14720 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
14721 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
14722 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
14723 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
14724 of RAM, and several others.
14726 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
14727 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
14728 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
14729 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
14730 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
14732 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
14733 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
14734 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
14735 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
14738 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
14739 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
14740 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
14741 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
14742 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
14743 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
14744 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14745 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
14746 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
14747 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
14748 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
14749 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
14750 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
14751 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
14752 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
14753 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
14754 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
14755 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
14756 Resolves ticket 11438.
14758 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
14759 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
14760 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
14761 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
14762 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
14763 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14765 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
14766 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
14767 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
14769 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
14770 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
14771 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14773 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
14774 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
14775 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
14776 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14778 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
14779 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
14780 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
14782 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14783 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
14784 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
14787 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
14788 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
14789 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
14790 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
14793 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
14794 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
14795 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
14796 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
14798 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
14799 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
14800 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
14801 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
14803 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
14804 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
14805 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
14809 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
14810 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
14811 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
14812 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
14813 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
14814 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
14815 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
14816 the Linux sandbox code.
14818 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
14819 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
14820 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
14822 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
14823 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
14825 o Major features (security):
14826 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
14827 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
14828 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
14829 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
14830 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
14831 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
14832 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
14833 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
14835 o Major features (relay performance):
14836 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
14837 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
14838 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
14839 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
14840 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
14841 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
14842 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
14843 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
14844 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
14845 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
14847 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
14848 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
14849 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
14850 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
14851 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
14852 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
14853 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
14855 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
14856 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
14858 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
14859 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
14860 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
14861 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
14862 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
14863 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
14864 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14865 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
14866 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
14867 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
14868 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
14869 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
14870 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
14871 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
14872 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
14873 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
14874 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
14875 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
14876 Resolves ticket 11438.
14878 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
14879 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
14880 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
14881 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14883 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
14884 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
14885 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
14886 10267; patch from "yurivict".
14887 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
14888 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
14889 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
14890 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
14891 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
14892 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
14894 o Minor features (security):
14895 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
14896 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
14897 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
14898 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
14901 o Minor features (log verbosity):
14902 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
14903 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
14904 Resolves ticket 5286.
14905 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
14906 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
14907 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
14908 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
14909 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
14910 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
14911 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
14912 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
14913 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
14915 o Minor features (relay):
14916 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
14917 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
14918 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
14920 o Minor features (controller):
14921 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
14922 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
14924 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
14925 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
14926 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
14928 o Minor features (bridge client):
14929 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
14930 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
14931 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
14933 o Minor features (diagnostic):
14934 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
14935 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
14936 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
14937 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
14938 still referenced by a live node_t object.
14940 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
14941 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
14942 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
14943 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
14945 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
14946 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
14947 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
14948 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
14951 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
14952 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
14953 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14955 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
14956 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
14957 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
14958 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14959 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
14960 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
14961 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
14963 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
14964 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
14965 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
14966 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14967 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
14968 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
14969 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14970 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
14971 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
14972 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
14973 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14974 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
14975 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
14978 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
14979 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
14980 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
14981 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
14982 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
14984 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
14985 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
14986 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
14989 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14990 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
14991 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
14993 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
14994 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
14995 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
14997 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
14998 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
14999 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
15000 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
15002 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
15003 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
15004 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
15005 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
15006 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
15008 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
15009 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
15010 early. Fixes bug 10081.
15012 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
15013 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
15014 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
15015 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
15016 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15017 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
15018 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
15019 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
15021 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
15022 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
15023 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
15024 should never have affected anyone in practice.
15026 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
15027 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
15028 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15030 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
15031 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
15032 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
15033 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
15034 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
15035 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
15036 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
15037 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
15038 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
15039 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
15040 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
15041 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
15042 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
15043 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
15045 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
15046 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
15047 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
15048 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
15049 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
15050 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
15051 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
15052 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
15056 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
15057 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
15058 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
15059 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15060 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
15061 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15062 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
15063 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
15065 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
15067 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
15068 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
15069 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
15070 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
15071 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
15074 o Deprecated versions:
15075 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
15076 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
15077 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
15078 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
15081 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
15082 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
15083 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
15084 Patch from Dana Koch.
15087 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
15088 Resolves ticket 11070.
15091 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
15092 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
15093 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
15094 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
15095 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
15098 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
15099 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
15101 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
15102 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
15103 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
15104 streams attached to each circuit.
15106 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
15107 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
15108 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
15109 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
15110 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
15111 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
15112 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
15113 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
15114 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
15115 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
15116 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
15117 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
15118 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
15120 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
15121 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
15122 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
15124 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
15125 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
15126 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
15127 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
15128 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
15129 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
15130 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
15131 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
15132 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
15134 o Minor features (other):
15135 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
15136 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
15137 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
15138 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
15139 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
15140 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
15141 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
15142 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
15143 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
15146 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
15147 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
15148 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
15149 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
15150 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
15151 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
15152 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
15153 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
15155 o Minor bugfixes (client):
15156 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
15157 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
15158 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
15159 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15160 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
15161 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
15162 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
15164 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
15165 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
15166 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
15167 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
15168 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
15169 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
15170 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
15171 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
15172 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15173 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
15174 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
15175 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15177 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
15178 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
15179 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
15180 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
15181 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
15182 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
15183 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
15184 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
15185 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
15186 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
15187 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
15188 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
15189 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
15190 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
15192 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
15193 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
15195 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
15196 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
15197 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
15198 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
15199 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
15200 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
15201 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15202 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
15203 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
15204 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
15205 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
15206 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15207 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
15208 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
15210 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15211 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
15212 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
15213 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
15216 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
15217 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
15218 the rest of bug 10841.
15221 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
15222 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
15223 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
15224 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
15225 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
15226 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
15227 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
15228 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
15229 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
15230 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
15231 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
15232 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
15233 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
15234 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
15235 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15237 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
15238 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
15239 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
15241 o Test infrastructure:
15242 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
15243 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
15244 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
15245 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
15248 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
15249 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
15250 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
15251 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
15253 o Major features (client security):
15254 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
15255 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
15256 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
15257 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
15258 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
15259 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
15262 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
15263 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
15264 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
15265 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15267 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15268 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
15269 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
15270 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
15271 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
15274 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
15275 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
15277 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
15278 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
15279 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
15280 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
15281 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
15282 GeoLite2 Country database.
15285 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
15286 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
15287 bugfix on every released Tor.
15288 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
15289 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
15290 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
15291 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15292 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
15293 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
15294 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
15295 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
15296 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
15297 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15298 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
15299 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
15300 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15301 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
15302 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
15304 o Documentation fixes:
15305 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
15306 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
15309 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
15310 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
15311 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
15312 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
15313 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
15314 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
15315 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
15316 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
15318 o Major features (client security):
15319 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
15320 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
15321 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
15322 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
15323 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
15324 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
15325 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
15326 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
15327 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
15328 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
15329 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
15330 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
15332 o Major features (bridges):
15333 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
15334 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
15335 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
15336 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
15337 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
15338 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
15339 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
15340 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
15343 o Major features (other):
15344 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
15345 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
15346 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
15347 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
15348 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
15349 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
15350 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
15351 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
15352 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
15353 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
15354 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
15355 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
15358 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
15359 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
15360 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15361 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
15362 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
15363 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
15364 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15366 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
15367 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
15368 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
15369 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
15370 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
15371 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
15372 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
15373 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
15374 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
15376 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
15377 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15378 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
15379 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
15380 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
15381 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
15383 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
15384 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
15385 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
15386 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
15387 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
15388 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
15391 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
15392 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
15393 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
15394 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
15395 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
15396 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
15397 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
15399 o Minor features (security):
15400 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
15401 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
15404 o Minor features (config options and command line):
15405 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
15406 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
15407 Implements ticket 10060.
15408 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
15409 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
15410 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
15412 o Minor features (controller):
15413 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
15414 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
15415 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
15416 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
15417 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
15420 o Minor features (build):
15421 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
15422 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
15423 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
15424 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
15425 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
15426 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
15427 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
15429 o Minor features (testing):
15430 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
15431 the unit test scripts.
15432 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
15433 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
15434 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
15435 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
15437 o Minor features (log messages):
15438 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
15439 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
15440 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
15441 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
15442 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
15443 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
15444 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
15445 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
15446 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
15447 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
15449 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
15450 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
15451 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
15452 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
15453 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
15454 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
15455 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
15456 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
15457 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
15458 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15460 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
15461 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
15462 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
15463 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
15466 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
15467 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
15468 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
15469 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
15470 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15472 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
15473 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
15474 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
15475 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
15476 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
15477 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
15478 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
15480 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
15481 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
15482 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
15483 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
15484 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
15485 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
15486 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15487 Reported by "mr-4".
15488 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
15489 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
15490 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
15491 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
15493 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
15494 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
15495 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
15496 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
15497 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
15498 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
15499 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
15500 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
15501 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
15502 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
15503 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15505 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
15506 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
15507 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
15508 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
15509 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
15510 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
15511 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
15512 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
15513 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
15514 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
15516 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
15517 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
15518 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
15519 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
15522 o Minor bugfixes (build):
15523 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
15524 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
15525 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
15526 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
15527 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
15529 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
15530 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15532 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15533 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
15534 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
15535 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15537 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
15538 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
15539 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
15540 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
15541 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
15542 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
15543 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
15544 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
15545 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
15546 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
15547 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
15548 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
15549 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
15550 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
15552 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
15553 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
15554 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15555 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
15556 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
15557 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
15559 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
15560 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
15561 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15562 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
15563 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
15564 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
15565 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
15566 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
15567 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
15568 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15569 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
15570 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
15572 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
15573 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
15574 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
15575 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
15576 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
15577 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
15578 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
15579 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
15580 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
15581 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
15582 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
15583 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
15584 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
15585 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
15586 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
15587 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
15590 o Removed code and features:
15591 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
15592 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
15593 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
15594 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
15595 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
15596 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
15598 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
15599 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
15600 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
15601 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
15602 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
15603 part of a fix for bug 10841.
15605 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15606 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
15607 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
15608 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
15609 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
15610 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
15611 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
15612 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
15613 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
15614 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
15615 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
15618 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
15619 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
15620 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
15621 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
15622 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
15624 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
15625 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
15626 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
15627 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
15628 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
15629 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
15630 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
15633 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
15634 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
15635 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
15638 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
15639 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
15640 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
15641 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
15642 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
15643 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
15644 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
15646 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
15647 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
15650 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
15651 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
15652 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
15653 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
15654 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
15655 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
15656 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
15657 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
15659 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
15660 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15661 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
15662 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
15663 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
15664 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
15667 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
15668 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15669 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
15670 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
15671 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
15674 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
15675 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
15676 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
15677 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
15678 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
15679 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
15680 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
15681 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
15683 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
15684 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
15685 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
15686 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
15687 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
15688 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
15689 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
15690 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
15691 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
15692 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
15693 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
15694 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
15695 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
15696 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
15697 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
15698 security, and privacy fixes.
15701 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
15702 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
15703 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
15704 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
15707 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
15708 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
15709 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
15710 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
15711 them to solve bug 6033.)
15714 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
15715 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
15716 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
15717 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
15718 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
15719 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15720 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
15721 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
15723 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
15724 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
15725 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
15726 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
15728 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
15729 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
15730 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15731 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
15732 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
15733 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
15734 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
15735 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
15736 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
15737 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15738 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
15739 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
15741 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
15742 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
15743 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
15744 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
15745 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
15746 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
15747 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
15748 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
15749 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
15750 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
15751 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
15752 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
15753 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
15754 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
15755 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
15756 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
15759 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
15760 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
15761 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
15762 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
15763 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
15764 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
15765 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
15766 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
15767 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
15768 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
15769 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
15770 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
15771 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
15772 Implements part of proposal 222.
15774 o Minor features (other):
15775 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
15776 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
15777 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
15778 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
15779 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
15780 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
15781 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
15782 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
15783 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15785 o Documentation fixes:
15786 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
15787 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
15788 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
15789 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
15790 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
15791 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
15794 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
15795 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
15796 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
15797 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
15798 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
15799 release of the new branch.
15801 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
15802 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
15803 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
15805 o Major features (security):
15806 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
15807 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
15808 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
15809 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
15810 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
15811 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
15812 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
15813 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
15814 Google Summer of Code.
15815 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
15816 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
15817 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
15818 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
15819 them to solve bug 6033.)
15821 o Major features (other):
15822 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
15823 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
15824 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
15825 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
15826 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
15828 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
15829 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
15830 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
15831 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
15832 Implements ticket 8530.
15833 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
15834 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
15837 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
15838 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
15839 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
15840 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
15841 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
15842 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15843 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
15844 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
15845 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15846 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
15847 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
15848 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
15849 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
15852 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
15853 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
15854 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
15855 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
15856 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
15857 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
15858 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
15859 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
15860 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
15861 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
15865 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
15866 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
15867 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
15868 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
15869 invoking the other functions it calls.
15870 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
15871 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
15872 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
15873 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
15875 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
15876 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
15877 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
15878 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
15879 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
15880 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
15881 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
15882 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
15883 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
15884 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
15885 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
15886 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
15887 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
15888 Implements part of proposal 222.
15890 o Minor features (config options):
15891 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
15892 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
15893 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
15894 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
15895 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
15896 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
15897 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
15898 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
15899 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
15900 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
15901 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
15902 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
15903 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
15904 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
15905 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
15906 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
15907 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
15910 o Minor features (build):
15911 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
15912 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
15913 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
15914 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
15915 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
15918 o Minor features (other):
15919 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
15920 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
15921 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
15922 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
15923 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
15924 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
15925 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
15926 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
15927 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
15928 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
15929 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
15930 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
15931 Closes ticket 8109.
15932 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15935 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
15936 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
15937 bugfix on every released Tor.
15938 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
15939 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
15940 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
15941 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
15942 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
15943 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
15945 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
15946 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
15947 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
15948 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15949 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
15950 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
15951 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
15952 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
15954 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
15955 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
15956 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
15957 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
15958 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
15960 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
15961 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15963 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
15964 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
15965 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
15967 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
15968 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
15969 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
15970 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
15971 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15973 o Minor code improvements:
15974 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
15975 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
15977 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
15978 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
15979 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
15980 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
15981 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
15983 o Removed features:
15984 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
15985 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
15986 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
15987 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
15989 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15990 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
15991 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
15992 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
15993 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
15994 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
15995 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
15996 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
15997 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
15998 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
15999 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
16000 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
16001 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
16002 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
16003 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
16004 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
16007 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
16008 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
16009 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
16010 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
16011 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
16012 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
16013 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
16016 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
16017 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
16018 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
16019 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
16020 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
16021 Implements ticket 9574.
16024 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
16025 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
16026 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
16027 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
16028 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
16029 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
16030 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
16031 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
16032 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
16033 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
16034 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
16035 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
16039 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
16040 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
16041 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
16042 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
16044 o Minor fixes (config options):
16045 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
16046 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
16047 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
16048 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
16049 message is logged at notice, not at info.
16050 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
16051 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
16052 or we just won't work.)
16055 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
16056 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
16057 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
16058 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16061 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
16062 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
16063 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
16066 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
16067 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
16068 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16069 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
16070 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16071 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
16072 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
16074 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
16075 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16076 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
16077 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
16080 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
16081 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
16082 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16083 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
16084 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
16085 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
16086 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
16087 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
16088 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
16089 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
16090 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16091 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
16092 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
16095 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16098 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
16099 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
16100 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
16101 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
16104 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
16105 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
16106 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16109 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
16110 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
16111 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
16114 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
16115 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
16116 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
16119 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
16120 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
16121 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
16122 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
16123 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
16124 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
16126 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
16127 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
16128 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
16129 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
16130 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
16131 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
16133 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
16134 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
16135 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
16138 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
16139 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
16140 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
16141 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
16142 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
16144 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
16145 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
16146 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
16147 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
16148 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
16149 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
16150 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
16152 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
16153 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
16154 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
16156 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
16157 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
16161 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
16162 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
16163 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
16165 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
16166 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
16167 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
16168 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
16169 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
16170 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
16172 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
16173 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
16174 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
16175 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
16176 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
16177 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
16178 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
16181 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
16182 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
16183 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
16184 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
16185 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
16186 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
16187 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16188 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
16189 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16190 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
16191 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
16192 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16193 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
16194 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
16196 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
16197 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
16198 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
16199 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
16202 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
16203 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
16204 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
16205 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
16206 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
16207 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
16209 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
16210 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
16214 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
16215 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
16216 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
16217 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
16218 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
16219 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
16220 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16222 o Removed documentation:
16223 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
16224 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
16226 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16227 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
16228 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
16229 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
16232 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
16233 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
16234 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
16235 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
16236 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
16237 variety of other issues.
16240 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
16241 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
16242 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
16243 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
16244 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
16245 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
16246 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
16247 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
16249 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
16250 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
16251 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
16253 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
16254 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
16255 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
16256 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
16257 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
16258 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
16259 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16261 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
16262 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
16263 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
16264 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
16265 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
16266 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
16267 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
16268 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
16269 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
16270 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
16271 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
16272 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
16273 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16274 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
16275 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
16276 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
16277 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
16278 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
16279 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
16280 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
16281 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16283 o Major bugfixes (other):
16284 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
16285 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
16286 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
16287 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16290 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
16291 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
16292 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
16293 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
16295 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
16296 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
16298 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16300 o Minor features (build):
16301 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
16302 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
16304 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
16305 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
16307 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
16308 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
16309 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
16312 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16313 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
16314 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
16315 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16316 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
16317 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
16318 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16319 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
16320 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
16321 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16322 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
16323 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
16324 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
16325 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
16328 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
16329 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
16330 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
16331 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
16332 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
16333 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
16334 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
16335 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
16336 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
16337 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
16338 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
16339 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
16340 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
16341 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16342 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16344 o Minor bugfixes (other):
16345 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
16346 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16347 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
16348 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
16349 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
16350 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
16351 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16352 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
16353 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
16354 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
16355 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
16356 Should help resolve bug 8235.
16357 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
16358 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
16359 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
16360 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16362 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
16363 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
16364 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
16365 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
16366 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
16367 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
16368 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
16369 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
16372 o Minor bugfixes (config):
16373 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
16374 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
16376 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
16377 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
16378 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
16379 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
16380 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
16381 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
16382 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16383 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
16384 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
16385 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
16386 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
16387 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
16388 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16389 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
16390 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
16393 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
16394 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
16395 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
16396 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
16397 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
16398 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
16399 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
16400 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
16402 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
16403 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
16404 or at least make it more diagnosable.
16405 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
16406 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
16407 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
16408 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16410 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
16411 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
16412 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
16413 the relaxed timeout log message.
16414 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
16415 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
16416 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
16418 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
16419 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
16420 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16421 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
16422 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16423 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
16424 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
16427 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
16428 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
16429 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
16430 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
16431 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16432 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
16433 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
16434 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
16435 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
16436 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
16437 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
16438 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
16439 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16440 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
16441 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
16442 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
16443 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16445 o Documentation fixes:
16446 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
16447 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
16448 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
16449 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
16450 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
16451 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
16452 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
16453 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
16456 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
16457 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
16461 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
16462 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
16463 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
16464 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
16466 o Major features (directory authorities):
16467 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
16468 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
16469 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
16470 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
16471 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
16472 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
16473 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
16474 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
16475 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
16476 Implements ticket 8151.
16478 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
16479 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
16480 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
16481 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
16482 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
16484 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16485 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
16486 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
16487 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
16488 whether authentication information is present, causing all
16489 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
16490 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
16492 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
16493 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
16494 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
16495 bugs 1913 and 1992.
16496 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
16497 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
16498 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
16499 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
16500 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
16501 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
16502 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
16503 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
16504 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
16505 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
16506 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
16507 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
16508 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
16509 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
16510 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
16511 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
16512 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
16513 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
16516 o Minor features (portability):
16517 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
16518 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16519 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
16520 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
16521 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
16522 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
16523 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
16524 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16526 o Minor features (other):
16527 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
16528 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
16529 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
16530 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
16531 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
16532 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
16533 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
16534 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
16536 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16538 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
16539 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
16540 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
16541 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
16542 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
16543 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
16544 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
16545 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
16546 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
16547 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
16549 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
16550 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
16551 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
16552 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16554 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
16555 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
16556 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
16557 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
16558 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
16559 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
16560 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
16562 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
16563 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
16564 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
16565 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
16566 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
16568 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
16569 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
16570 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
16571 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
16573 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
16574 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
16575 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
16578 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
16579 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
16580 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
16581 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
16583 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
16584 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
16585 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
16586 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16588 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
16589 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
16590 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
16591 this is CID 718634.
16592 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
16593 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
16594 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
16595 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
16597 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
16598 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
16599 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16600 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
16601 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
16602 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
16603 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16605 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16606 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
16610 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
16611 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
16612 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
16613 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
16614 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
16617 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
16618 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
16619 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
16620 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
16622 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
16623 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
16624 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
16628 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
16629 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
16630 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
16631 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
16632 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
16633 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
16634 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
16635 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
16636 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
16637 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
16638 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
16639 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
16640 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
16643 o Major features (relay):
16644 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
16645 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
16646 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
16647 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
16648 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
16649 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
16650 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
16652 o Major features (portability):
16653 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
16654 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
16655 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
16656 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
16657 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16660 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
16661 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
16662 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
16663 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
16664 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
16665 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
16667 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
16668 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
16669 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
16670 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
16671 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
16672 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
16673 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
16674 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
16676 o Minor features (path selection):
16677 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
16678 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
16679 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
16680 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
16681 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
16682 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
16683 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
16684 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
16685 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
16686 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
16687 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
16688 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
16689 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
16690 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
16691 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
16692 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
16693 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
16694 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
16695 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
16697 o Minor features (log messages):
16698 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
16699 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
16700 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
16701 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
16704 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
16705 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
16706 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16707 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
16708 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
16709 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
16710 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
16711 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
16712 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
16713 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16714 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
16715 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16717 o Build improvements:
16718 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
16719 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
16720 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
16721 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
16722 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
16723 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
16724 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
16725 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
16726 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
16727 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
16728 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
16729 than to perform erroneously.
16731 o Removed features:
16732 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
16733 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
16734 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
16736 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
16737 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
16738 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
16741 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
16742 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
16744 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
16745 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
16749 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
16750 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
16751 work more robustly.
16754 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
16755 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
16756 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
16760 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
16761 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
16762 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
16763 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
16766 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
16767 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
16768 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
16769 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
16770 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
16771 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
16772 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
16773 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
16774 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
16775 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
16776 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
16777 closes ticket 7199.
16779 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
16780 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
16781 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
16782 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
16783 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
16784 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
16785 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
16786 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
16787 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
16788 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
16789 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
16791 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
16792 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
16793 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
16795 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
16796 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
16797 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
16799 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
16801 o Major features (better link encryption):
16802 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
16803 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
16804 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
16805 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
16806 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
16807 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
16810 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
16811 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
16812 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
16813 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
16814 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
16815 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
16816 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
16818 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
16819 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
16820 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
16821 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
16823 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
16826 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
16827 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
16828 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16831 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
16832 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
16833 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
16834 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
16835 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
16836 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
16837 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
16838 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
16839 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16841 o Minor features (testing):
16842 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
16843 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
16844 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
16846 o Minor features (path bias detection):
16847 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
16848 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
16849 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
16850 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
16851 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
16852 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
16853 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
16854 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
16855 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
16856 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
16857 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
16858 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
16859 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
16860 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
16861 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
16862 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
16863 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
16864 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
16865 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
16866 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
16867 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
16868 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
16869 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
16870 detection capability loss.
16872 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
16873 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
16874 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
16875 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
16876 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16877 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
16878 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
16879 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
16882 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
16883 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
16884 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
16885 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
16886 and the different handshakes it supports.
16887 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
16888 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
16889 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
16890 any encoding is overkill.
16893 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
16894 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
16895 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
16896 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
16897 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
16898 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
16899 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
16900 and fixes a variety of other issues.
16902 o Major features (client resilience):
16903 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
16904 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
16905 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
16906 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
16907 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
16908 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
16909 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
16910 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
16911 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
16912 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
16913 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
16914 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
16915 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
16916 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
16917 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
16919 o Major features (IPv6):
16920 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
16921 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
16922 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
16923 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
16924 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
16925 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
16926 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
16927 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
16929 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
16930 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
16932 o Major features (geoip database):
16933 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
16934 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
16935 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
16936 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
16937 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
16938 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
16939 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
16940 Country database, as modified above.
16942 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
16943 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
16944 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
16945 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
16946 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
16947 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
16948 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
16949 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
16950 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
16951 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
16952 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
16953 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
16954 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
16955 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
16956 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
16957 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
16958 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
16961 o Major bugfixes (other):
16962 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
16963 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
16964 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
16965 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
16966 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
16967 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
16968 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
16969 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
16971 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
16972 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16975 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
16976 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
16977 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
16978 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
16979 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
16980 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
16981 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
16982 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
16984 o Minor features (IPv6):
16985 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
16986 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
16987 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
16988 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
16989 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
16990 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
16991 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
16992 connect to the wrong addresses.
16993 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
16994 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
16995 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
16996 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
17000 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
17001 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
17002 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
17003 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
17004 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
17005 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
17006 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
17008 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
17009 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
17010 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
17013 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
17014 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
17016 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17017 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
17018 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
17019 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
17020 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
17023 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
17024 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
17025 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
17026 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
17027 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
17028 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
17029 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
17030 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
17032 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
17033 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
17034 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
17035 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
17036 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
17037 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
17038 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
17039 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
17040 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
17041 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
17042 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
17045 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
17046 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
17047 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
17048 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
17049 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
17050 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
17051 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
17052 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
17053 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
17054 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
17057 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
17058 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
17062 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
17063 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
17064 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
17065 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
17068 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
17069 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
17071 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
17072 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
17073 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
17074 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
17075 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
17076 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
17077 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
17078 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
17079 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
17080 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
17083 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
17085 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
17086 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
17087 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
17088 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
17089 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
17092 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
17093 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
17094 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17095 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
17096 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
17098 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
17099 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
17100 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
17101 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
17102 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
17103 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
17104 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
17106 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
17107 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17108 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
17109 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
17110 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
17111 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17112 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
17113 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17115 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17116 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
17117 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
17118 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
17119 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
17120 present the same extensions.)
17123 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
17124 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
17125 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
17126 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
17127 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
17129 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
17130 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
17131 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
17132 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
17134 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
17135 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
17136 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
17137 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17139 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
17140 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
17141 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
17142 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
17143 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
17144 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
17145 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
17146 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
17147 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17149 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
17150 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
17151 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
17152 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
17153 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17156 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
17157 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
17158 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
17160 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17161 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
17163 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
17164 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
17168 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
17169 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
17170 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
17171 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
17174 o Major bugfixes (security):
17175 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
17176 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
17177 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
17179 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
17180 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
17181 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
17182 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17185 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
17186 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
17187 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
17188 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
17189 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
17190 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
17191 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
17192 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17195 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
17196 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
17197 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
17198 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17201 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
17202 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
17203 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
17204 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
17205 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
17206 scheduling algorithms.
17208 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
17209 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
17210 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
17212 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
17213 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
17214 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
17215 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
17216 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
17217 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
17218 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
17219 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
17220 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
17221 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
17222 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
17224 o Internal abstraction features:
17225 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
17226 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
17227 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
17228 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
17229 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
17230 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
17231 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
17232 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
17233 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
17234 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
17235 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
17236 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
17237 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
17238 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
17239 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
17240 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
17241 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
17243 o Required libraries:
17244 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
17245 strongly recommended.
17248 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
17249 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
17250 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
17251 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
17252 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
17253 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
17254 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
17255 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
17256 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
17258 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
17259 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
17260 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
17261 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
17262 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
17263 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
17264 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
17265 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17266 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
17267 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
17268 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
17269 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
17270 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
17271 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
17272 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
17275 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
17276 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
17277 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
17278 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
17279 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
17280 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
17281 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
17282 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
17283 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
17284 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
17285 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
17286 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
17287 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
17288 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
17289 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17290 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
17291 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
17292 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
17293 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
17295 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
17296 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
17297 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
17298 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
17299 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
17300 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
17301 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
17304 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
17305 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
17306 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
17307 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
17309 o New directory authorities:
17310 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
17311 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
17313 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
17314 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
17315 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
17316 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
17317 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
17318 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
17319 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
17320 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
17321 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
17322 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
17323 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
17326 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
17327 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
17328 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
17330 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
17331 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
17332 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
17333 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17334 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
17335 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
17336 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
17337 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
17338 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
17340 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
17341 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
17342 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
17343 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
17344 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
17345 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
17346 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
17347 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
17348 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
17349 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
17350 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
17351 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
17352 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
17353 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
17354 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
17355 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
17356 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
17357 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
17359 o Documentation fixes:
17360 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
17363 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
17364 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
17365 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
17366 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
17369 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
17370 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
17371 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
17374 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
17375 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
17376 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
17377 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
17378 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
17379 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
17380 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
17381 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
17383 o Security features:
17384 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
17385 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
17386 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
17387 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
17388 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
17389 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
17390 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
17391 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
17392 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
17396 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
17397 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
17398 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
17401 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
17402 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
17403 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
17404 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
17405 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17406 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
17407 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
17408 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
17409 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
17410 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
17411 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
17412 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
17413 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
17414 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
17416 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
17417 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17418 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
17419 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
17420 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17422 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
17423 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
17424 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
17425 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17426 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
17427 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
17428 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17429 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
17430 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
17431 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
17432 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
17433 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
17434 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
17435 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17436 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
17437 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
17438 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
17439 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
17440 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
17441 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
17443 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17444 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
17445 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
17446 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
17447 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
17448 testable, and a little less fragile too.
17449 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
17450 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
17452 o Documentation fixes:
17453 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
17454 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
17458 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
17459 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
17463 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
17464 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
17465 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
17468 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
17469 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
17473 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
17474 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
17478 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
17479 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
17480 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
17481 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
17482 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
17483 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
17484 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
17488 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
17489 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
17490 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
17491 log messages less noisy.
17494 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
17495 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
17499 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
17500 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
17501 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
17502 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
17503 last time we raised it).
17506 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
17507 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
17509 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
17510 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
17511 part of ticket 6736.
17512 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
17513 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
17514 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
17518 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
17519 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
17520 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
17521 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
17522 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
17524 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
17525 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17526 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
17527 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
17528 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17529 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
17530 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
17531 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17532 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
17533 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17534 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
17535 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17537 o Removed features:
17538 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
17539 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
17540 bunch of compatibility code.
17542 o Code refactoring:
17543 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
17544 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
17545 the ORPort and the DirPort.
17548 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
17549 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
17550 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
17551 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
17553 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
17554 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
17555 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
17557 o Major features (bridges):
17558 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
17559 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
17560 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
17563 o Major features (IPv6):
17564 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
17565 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
17566 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
17567 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
17568 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
17569 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
17570 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
17571 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
17572 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
17574 o Major features (build):
17575 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
17576 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
17577 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
17578 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
17579 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
17580 fixes by Jim Meyering.
17581 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
17582 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
17583 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
17585 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
17586 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
17587 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
17588 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
17589 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
17590 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
17591 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
17592 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
17593 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
17594 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
17595 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
17597 o Minor features (streamlining);
17598 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
17599 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
17601 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
17602 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
17603 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
17604 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
17605 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
17606 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17608 o Minor features (controller):
17609 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
17611 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
17612 Implements ticket 4971.
17614 o Minor features (IPv6):
17615 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
17616 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
17617 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
17618 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
17619 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
17621 o Minor features (log messages):
17622 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
17623 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
17624 Resolves ticket 6758.
17625 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
17626 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
17627 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
17628 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17629 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
17630 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
17631 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
17633 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
17634 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
17635 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
17636 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
17637 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
17640 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
17641 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
17642 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
17643 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
17644 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
17646 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
17647 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
17648 Implements ticket 5529.
17649 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
17650 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
17651 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
17652 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
17653 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
17654 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
17655 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
17656 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
17657 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
17658 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
17660 o New requirements:
17661 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
17662 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
17663 from a source distribution.)
17666 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
17667 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
17668 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
17669 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
17670 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
17671 and cleans up other smaller issues.
17673 o Major bugfixes (security):
17674 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
17675 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
17676 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
17677 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
17678 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
17679 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
17680 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
17681 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
17682 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
17683 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
17684 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
17685 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17686 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
17687 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
17688 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
17689 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
17693 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
17694 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
17695 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
17696 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17697 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
17698 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
17699 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
17700 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
17701 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
17702 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17705 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
17706 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
17707 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
17708 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
17709 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
17710 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
17711 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
17712 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
17713 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
17714 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
17715 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
17717 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
17718 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
17719 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
17721 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
17722 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
17723 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
17724 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
17725 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17726 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
17727 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
17728 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
17729 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17730 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
17731 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
17732 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
17733 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
17734 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
17737 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
17738 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
17739 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
17740 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
17741 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
17742 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
17743 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
17744 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
17745 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
17746 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
17747 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
17748 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
17749 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
17750 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
17751 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
17754 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
17755 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
17756 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
17757 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
17758 Resolves ticket 6732.
17761 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
17762 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
17763 attack that could in theory leak path information.
17766 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
17767 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
17768 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17769 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
17770 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
17771 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
17772 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
17773 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
17774 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
17775 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
17776 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
17777 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
17778 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
17779 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
17782 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
17783 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
17784 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
17785 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
17788 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
17789 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
17790 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17791 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
17792 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
17793 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17794 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
17795 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
17796 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
17797 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
17798 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
17799 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
17800 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
17801 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
17802 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
17803 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
17804 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
17807 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
17808 a little more useful.
17809 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
17810 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17811 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
17812 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
17813 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
17814 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
17815 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
17818 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
17819 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17820 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
17821 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17822 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
17823 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
17827 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
17828 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
17829 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
17830 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
17831 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
17834 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
17835 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
17836 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
17839 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
17841 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
17843 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17844 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
17845 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
17846 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
17847 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
17850 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
17851 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
17852 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
17853 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
17854 since the beginning of Tor.
17857 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
17858 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
17859 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
17860 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
17861 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
17862 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
17863 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
17864 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
17865 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
17866 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
17869 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
17870 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
17873 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
17874 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
17875 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
17876 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
17879 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
17880 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17881 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
17882 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
17883 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
17884 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
17886 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
17887 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
17888 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
17889 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
17890 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
17891 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
17892 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17893 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
17894 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
17895 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
17896 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
17897 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
17898 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
17899 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
17900 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
17901 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
17902 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17903 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
17904 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
17906 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
17907 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
17908 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
17910 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
17911 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17912 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
17913 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
17915 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
17916 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17917 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
17918 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17919 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
17920 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
17921 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17922 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
17923 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
17924 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
17925 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
17926 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
17927 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
17928 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
17929 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
17930 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
17933 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
17934 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
17935 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
17936 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
17937 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
17940 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
17941 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
17942 options. Closes bug 4748.
17945 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
17946 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
17947 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
17948 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
17949 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
17953 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
17954 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
17956 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
17957 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
17958 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
17959 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
17960 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
17961 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
17962 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
17963 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
17964 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
17967 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
17968 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
17969 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
17970 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
17971 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
17972 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
17973 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
17974 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
17977 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
17978 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
17979 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
17980 case for flushing marked connections.
17981 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
17982 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
17983 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
17984 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
17985 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
17986 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
17987 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17988 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
17989 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17990 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
17991 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
17992 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
17993 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
17994 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
17995 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
17996 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
17997 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
17998 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
17999 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
18000 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
18001 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
18002 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
18003 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
18004 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
18005 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
18007 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
18008 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18009 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
18013 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
18014 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
18015 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
18016 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
18017 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
18018 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
18019 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
18020 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
18021 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
18022 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
18023 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
18024 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
18025 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
18026 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
18027 Addresses ticket 5458.
18028 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18030 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
18031 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
18032 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
18035 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
18036 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
18037 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
18041 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
18042 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
18043 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
18044 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
18045 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
18046 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
18047 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18048 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
18049 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
18050 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
18051 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18054 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
18055 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
18058 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
18059 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
18062 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
18063 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
18064 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
18065 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
18066 that get us closer to a release candidate.
18068 o Major bugfixes (general):
18069 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
18070 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
18071 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
18072 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
18073 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
18074 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
18075 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18076 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
18077 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
18079 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
18080 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
18081 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
18082 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
18085 o Major bugfixes (clients):
18086 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
18087 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
18088 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
18089 which introduced predicted ports.
18090 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
18091 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
18092 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
18093 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18094 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
18095 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
18096 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
18097 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
18098 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
18099 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
18100 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
18101 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
18102 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
18104 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
18105 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
18106 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
18107 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
18108 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
18109 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
18110 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
18111 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
18112 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
18113 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
18114 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
18118 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
18119 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
18120 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
18121 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
18122 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
18123 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
18124 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
18125 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
18126 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
18127 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
18128 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
18129 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
18130 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
18131 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
18133 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
18134 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
18135 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
18136 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
18137 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
18138 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
18139 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
18140 sure. Closes bug 5139.
18141 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
18142 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
18143 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
18144 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
18145 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
18146 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
18147 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18149 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
18150 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
18151 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
18152 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
18153 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
18154 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
18155 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
18156 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
18157 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
18158 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
18159 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
18160 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
18161 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
18162 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
18163 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
18164 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
18165 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
18166 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
18167 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
18168 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
18170 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
18171 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
18172 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
18173 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
18174 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
18175 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
18176 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
18177 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
18178 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
18179 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
18180 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
18181 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
18182 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
18184 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
18185 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18186 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
18187 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
18189 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
18190 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
18191 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18192 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
18193 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
18194 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18195 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
18196 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
18197 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
18198 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
18200 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
18201 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
18202 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
18204 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
18205 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
18206 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
18207 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
18208 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
18209 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
18210 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
18211 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
18212 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
18213 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
18214 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
18215 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18216 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
18217 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
18218 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
18219 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18220 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
18221 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
18222 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
18223 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
18225 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
18226 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
18227 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18228 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
18229 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
18230 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
18232 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
18233 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
18234 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
18236 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
18237 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
18238 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
18239 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
18240 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
18241 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
18243 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
18244 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
18245 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
18247 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
18248 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
18249 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18250 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
18251 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
18252 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18253 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
18254 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
18255 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
18256 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18257 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
18258 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
18259 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
18260 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
18261 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
18262 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
18264 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
18265 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
18266 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18267 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
18268 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
18269 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18270 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
18271 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18272 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
18273 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
18274 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
18275 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
18276 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
18279 o Documentation fixes:
18280 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
18281 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
18282 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
18283 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
18284 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
18285 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
18288 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
18289 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
18293 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
18294 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
18295 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
18296 and fixes several crash bugs.
18298 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
18299 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
18300 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
18301 those packages and upgrade anyway.
18303 o Directory authority changes:
18304 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
18305 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
18309 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
18310 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
18311 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
18312 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
18313 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
18314 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
18315 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
18316 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
18317 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
18318 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
18319 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
18320 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
18321 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
18322 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
18323 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
18324 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
18325 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
18326 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
18327 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
18328 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
18329 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
18330 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
18331 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
18332 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
18333 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
18334 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
18335 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
18338 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
18339 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18340 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
18341 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
18343 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
18344 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
18346 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
18347 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
18348 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
18349 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
18350 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
18351 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
18352 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
18353 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
18356 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
18357 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
18358 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
18359 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
18360 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
18361 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
18362 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
18363 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
18364 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
18365 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
18366 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
18367 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
18368 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
18369 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
18370 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
18371 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
18372 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
18373 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
18374 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
18375 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
18376 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
18377 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
18378 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
18379 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
18380 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
18381 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
18382 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
18383 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
18384 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
18385 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
18386 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
18387 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
18388 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
18389 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
18390 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18391 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
18392 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
18393 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
18394 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
18395 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18396 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
18397 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18398 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
18399 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
18400 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
18401 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
18403 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
18404 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
18405 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
18406 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
18407 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
18408 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
18409 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
18410 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
18411 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
18412 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
18413 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18414 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
18415 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
18416 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
18417 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
18420 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
18421 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
18422 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
18423 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
18425 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18428 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
18429 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
18430 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
18431 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
18432 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
18433 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
18434 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
18437 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
18438 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
18439 the development branch build on Windows again.
18441 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
18442 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
18443 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
18444 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
18445 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
18446 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
18447 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
18448 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
18449 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
18450 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
18451 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
18452 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
18453 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
18454 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
18455 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
18457 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
18458 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
18459 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
18460 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18461 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
18462 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
18463 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
18464 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
18465 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
18466 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
18467 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
18468 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
18471 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
18472 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
18473 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
18474 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
18475 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
18476 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
18477 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
18478 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
18479 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
18481 o Removed features:
18482 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
18483 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
18484 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
18485 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
18489 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
18490 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
18491 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
18492 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
18494 o Directory authority changes:
18495 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
18499 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
18500 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18501 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
18502 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
18504 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
18505 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
18506 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
18507 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
18508 documents entirely.
18509 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
18510 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
18511 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18513 o Major features (performance):
18514 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
18515 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
18516 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
18517 much faster than other AES implementations.
18519 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
18520 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
18521 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
18522 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
18523 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
18524 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
18525 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
18526 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
18527 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
18528 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
18529 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
18530 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
18531 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
18532 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
18533 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18534 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
18535 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
18536 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
18538 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
18539 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
18540 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
18541 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18542 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
18543 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18544 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
18545 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
18546 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
18548 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
18549 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
18550 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
18551 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
18552 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
18553 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
18556 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
18557 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
18558 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
18559 please let us know about it.
18560 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
18561 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
18562 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
18563 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
18564 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18565 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18566 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
18567 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
18569 o Default torrc changes:
18570 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
18571 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
18573 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
18574 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
18575 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
18578 o Removed features:
18579 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
18580 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
18581 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
18582 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
18584 o Code refactoring:
18585 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
18586 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
18587 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
18588 it would be a bad idea to start.
18591 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
18592 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
18593 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
18594 that get us closer to a release candidate.
18596 o Directory authority changes:
18597 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
18600 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
18601 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
18602 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
18603 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
18604 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
18605 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
18606 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
18607 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
18608 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
18609 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
18610 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
18611 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
18612 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
18613 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
18614 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
18615 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
18617 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
18618 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
18619 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
18620 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
18621 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
18622 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18623 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
18624 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
18625 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18626 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
18627 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
18628 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
18630 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
18631 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
18632 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18633 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
18634 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
18636 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
18637 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
18638 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
18639 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
18640 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
18641 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
18642 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
18643 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
18644 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
18645 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
18646 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
18647 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
18648 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
18649 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
18650 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18651 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
18652 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
18653 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
18654 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
18655 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
18656 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
18657 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
18660 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
18661 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
18662 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18663 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
18664 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
18665 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
18666 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
18667 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
18668 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18669 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
18670 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
18671 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
18672 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
18673 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
18674 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
18675 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
18676 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
18679 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
18680 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
18681 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18684 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
18685 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
18686 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
18687 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
18690 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
18691 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
18693 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
18694 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
18695 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
18696 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
18697 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
18698 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
18699 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
18700 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18701 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
18702 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
18703 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
18704 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18707 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
18708 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
18709 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
18710 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
18711 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
18712 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
18713 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18716 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
18717 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
18718 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
18719 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18720 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
18721 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
18722 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
18723 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
18724 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
18725 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
18727 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
18728 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
18729 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
18730 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
18731 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
18732 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
18733 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
18734 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
18735 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
18738 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
18739 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
18740 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
18744 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
18745 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
18746 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
18747 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
18748 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
18749 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
18752 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
18753 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
18754 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
18755 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
18756 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
18757 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
18758 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
18759 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
18761 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
18762 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
18763 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
18764 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
18765 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
18766 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
18767 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
18768 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
18770 o Major security workaround:
18771 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
18772 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
18773 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
18774 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
18775 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
18776 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
18777 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
18778 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
18779 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
18780 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
18781 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
18784 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
18785 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
18786 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
18787 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
18788 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
18789 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
18790 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
18791 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18792 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
18793 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
18794 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
18795 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
18796 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
18798 o Minor features (controller):
18799 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
18800 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
18801 file. Resolves bug 1101.
18802 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
18803 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
18804 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
18805 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
18806 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
18807 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
18809 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
18810 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
18811 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
18812 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
18813 part of ticket 3457.
18814 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
18815 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
18816 circuit-status' control-port command.
18818 o Minor features (directory authorities):
18819 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
18820 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
18821 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
18822 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
18824 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
18825 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
18826 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
18827 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
18828 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
18829 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
18830 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
18832 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
18833 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
18835 o Minor features (other):
18836 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
18837 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
18838 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
18839 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
18840 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
18841 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
18842 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
18843 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
18845 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
18846 them from the other auths.
18847 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
18848 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
18849 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
18850 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
18851 the 0.2.3.x series.
18852 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18854 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18855 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
18856 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
18857 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
18858 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
18859 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
18860 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
18861 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
18862 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
18863 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
18864 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
18865 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
18866 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
18867 be disabled using the new
18868 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
18869 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
18870 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
18871 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
18872 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
18873 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
18874 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
18875 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
18876 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
18877 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
18878 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
18879 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
18881 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
18882 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
18883 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
18886 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
18887 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
18888 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
18890 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
18891 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
18892 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
18893 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
18894 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18895 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
18896 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18898 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
18899 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
18900 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
18901 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
18902 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
18903 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
18904 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
18905 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
18907 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
18908 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
18909 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
18910 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
18911 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
18912 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
18913 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
18914 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
18915 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
18918 o Minor bugfixes (other):
18919 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
18920 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
18921 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
18922 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
18923 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
18924 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
18925 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
18926 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
18927 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
18928 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
18929 accidentally been reverted.
18930 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
18931 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
18932 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
18933 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
18934 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
18935 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
18936 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
18937 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
18938 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
18939 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18940 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
18941 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
18942 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
18943 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
18944 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18945 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
18946 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18947 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
18948 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18951 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
18952 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
18953 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
18954 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
18955 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
18956 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
18957 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
18959 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
18960 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
18961 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
18962 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
18963 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
18964 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
18965 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
18967 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
18968 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
18969 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
18970 invalid value, rather than just -1.
18971 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
18972 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
18973 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
18974 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
18975 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
18976 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
18977 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
18981 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
18982 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
18983 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
18985 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
18986 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
18987 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
18988 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
18989 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
18990 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
18991 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
18992 (which Tor does not do by default).
18994 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
18995 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
18996 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
18997 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
18998 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
19000 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
19004 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
19005 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
19006 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
19007 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
19010 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
19011 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
19012 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
19013 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
19014 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
19015 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
19016 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
19017 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
19018 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
19019 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
19020 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19023 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19026 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
19027 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
19028 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
19030 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
19031 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
19032 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
19033 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
19034 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
19035 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
19036 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
19037 (which Tor does not do by default).
19039 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
19040 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
19041 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
19042 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
19043 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
19045 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
19046 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
19047 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
19050 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
19051 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
19052 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
19053 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
19054 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
19056 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
19057 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
19060 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
19061 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
19062 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
19063 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
19064 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
19065 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
19066 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
19067 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
19069 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
19070 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
19071 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
19072 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
19073 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
19074 close based on processing a cell on it.
19075 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
19076 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
19077 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
19078 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19079 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
19080 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
19081 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19082 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
19083 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
19084 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
19085 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
19086 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
19087 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
19088 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
19089 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
19092 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
19093 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
19094 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
19095 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
19096 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
19097 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
19098 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
19100 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
19101 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
19102 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
19103 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
19104 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
19105 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
19106 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
19107 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
19108 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19109 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
19110 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
19111 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
19112 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
19113 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19114 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
19115 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
19116 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
19117 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
19118 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
19119 Reported by "troll_un".
19120 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
19121 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19122 Reported by "troll_un".
19123 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
19124 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
19125 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
19126 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
19129 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
19130 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
19131 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
19132 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
19133 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
19134 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
19135 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
19136 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
19137 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
19138 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
19139 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19141 o Packaging changes:
19142 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
19143 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
19146 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
19147 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
19148 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
19149 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
19150 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
19152 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
19153 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
19155 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
19156 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
19157 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
19158 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
19159 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19160 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
19161 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
19162 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
19163 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
19166 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19169 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
19170 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
19171 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
19172 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
19173 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
19174 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
19175 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
19178 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
19179 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
19180 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
19181 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
19182 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
19183 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
19184 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
19185 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
19186 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
19187 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
19188 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
19189 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
19190 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
19191 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
19192 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
19193 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
19194 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
19195 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
19196 Resolves ticket 4526.
19197 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
19198 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
19199 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
19200 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
19201 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
19202 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
19203 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
19204 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
19205 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
19206 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
19207 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
19208 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
19209 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
19210 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
19211 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
19212 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
19215 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
19216 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
19217 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
19218 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
19219 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
19220 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
19221 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
19222 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
19223 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
19224 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
19226 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
19227 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
19228 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
19229 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
19230 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
19231 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
19232 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
19233 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
19234 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
19236 o Minor features (new/different config options):
19237 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
19238 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
19239 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
19240 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
19241 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
19242 Implements issue 933.
19243 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
19244 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
19245 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
19246 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
19247 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
19248 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
19249 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
19250 appending to the list.
19251 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
19252 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
19253 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
19254 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
19256 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
19257 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
19258 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
19259 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
19260 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
19261 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
19262 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
19263 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
19266 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
19267 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
19268 Resolves ticket 2474.
19269 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
19270 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
19271 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
19272 Required by fix for bug 3460.
19273 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
19274 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
19275 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
19276 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
19277 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
19278 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
19279 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
19280 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
19281 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
19283 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
19284 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
19285 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
19287 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
19289 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
19290 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
19292 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
19293 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
19294 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
19295 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
19296 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
19297 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
19298 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
19300 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
19301 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
19302 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
19303 Reported by "troll_un".
19304 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
19305 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19306 Reported by "troll_un".
19307 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
19308 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
19309 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
19310 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
19312 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
19313 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
19315 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
19316 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
19317 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
19318 with help from wanoskarnet.
19319 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
19320 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19323 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
19324 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
19325 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
19326 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19328 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
19329 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
19330 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
19331 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
19332 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
19333 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
19334 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
19335 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
19338 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
19339 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
19340 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
19341 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
19342 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
19343 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
19344 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
19345 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
19346 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
19349 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
19350 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
19351 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
19352 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
19354 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
19355 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
19356 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
19357 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19358 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
19359 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
19360 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
19361 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
19362 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
19363 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
19364 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
19365 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
19366 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
19367 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
19368 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
19369 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
19370 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
19371 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
19372 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
19373 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
19374 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
19375 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
19376 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
19377 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
19380 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
19381 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
19382 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
19383 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
19384 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
19385 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19386 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
19387 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
19390 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
19391 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
19392 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
19393 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
19394 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
19395 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
19396 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
19397 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
19398 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
19399 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
19400 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
19401 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
19402 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
19403 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
19404 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
19406 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
19407 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
19408 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
19409 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
19410 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
19411 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
19412 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
19413 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19414 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
19415 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
19416 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
19417 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
19418 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
19419 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19420 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
19421 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
19422 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19424 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
19425 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
19426 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
19427 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
19428 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
19429 Found by frosty_un.
19430 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
19431 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
19432 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
19434 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
19435 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
19436 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
19438 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
19439 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
19441 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
19442 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
19445 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
19446 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
19447 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
19448 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
19449 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
19450 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
19451 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
19452 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
19453 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
19454 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
19455 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
19456 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
19457 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
19458 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
19460 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
19461 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
19462 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19464 o Packaging changes:
19465 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
19466 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
19468 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19469 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
19470 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
19471 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
19472 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
19473 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
19474 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
19475 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
19476 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
19479 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
19481 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
19482 ./src/test/bench binary.
19483 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
19484 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
19487 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
19488 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
19489 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
19493 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
19494 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
19495 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
19496 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
19497 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
19498 close based on processing a cell on it.
19499 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
19500 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
19501 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
19502 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
19503 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
19504 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
19505 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
19506 cells were introduced.
19509 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
19510 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
19513 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
19514 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
19515 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
19516 users. Everybody should upgrade.
19518 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
19519 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
19522 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
19523 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
19524 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
19525 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
19526 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
19527 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
19529 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
19530 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
19531 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
19532 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
19533 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
19534 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
19535 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
19536 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
19537 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
19538 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
19539 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
19540 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
19541 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
19542 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
19543 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
19544 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
19545 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
19546 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
19549 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
19550 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
19551 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
19552 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
19553 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
19554 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
19555 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
19556 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
19557 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
19558 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
19559 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
19560 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
19561 Partly fixes bug 3825.
19562 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
19563 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
19564 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
19565 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
19566 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
19567 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
19568 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
19570 o Major bugfixes (other):
19571 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
19572 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
19573 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
19574 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19575 Found by "frosty_un".
19576 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
19577 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
19578 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
19579 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
19580 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
19581 immensely in tracking this bug down.
19582 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
19583 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
19586 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
19587 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
19588 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
19589 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
19590 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
19591 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
19592 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
19593 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
19594 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
19595 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
19596 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
19597 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
19598 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
19599 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
19600 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
19601 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
19602 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
19603 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
19604 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
19605 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
19606 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
19608 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
19609 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
19610 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
19611 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19612 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
19613 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
19614 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
19615 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
19616 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
19617 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
19618 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
19621 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
19622 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
19623 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
19624 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
19625 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
19626 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
19627 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
19628 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
19629 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
19630 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
19631 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
19632 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
19633 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
19634 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19636 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19637 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
19638 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
19639 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
19640 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
19641 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
19642 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
19643 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
19646 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
19647 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
19648 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
19650 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
19651 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
19652 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
19653 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
19654 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
19655 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
19656 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
19657 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
19658 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
19659 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
19660 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
19661 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
19662 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
19664 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
19665 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
19666 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
19667 currently connected to them.
19669 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
19670 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
19671 remain; see for example proposal 188.
19673 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
19674 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
19675 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
19676 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
19677 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
19678 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
19679 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
19680 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
19681 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
19682 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
19683 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
19684 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
19685 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
19686 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
19687 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
19688 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
19689 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
19690 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
19693 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
19694 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
19695 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
19696 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
19697 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
19698 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
19699 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
19700 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
19701 when bridges were introduced.
19702 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
19703 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
19704 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
19705 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19706 Found by "frosty_un".
19709 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
19710 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
19712 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
19713 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
19714 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
19715 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
19716 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
19717 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
19718 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
19721 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
19722 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
19723 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
19724 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
19725 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
19726 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
19727 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
19728 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
19729 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
19730 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
19731 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
19732 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
19733 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
19734 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
19735 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
19736 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
19737 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
19738 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
19740 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
19741 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
19742 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
19743 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
19744 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
19745 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
19746 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
19747 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
19748 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
19749 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
19750 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
19751 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
19754 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
19755 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
19756 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
19757 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19760 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
19761 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
19762 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
19763 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
19764 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
19766 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
19767 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
19768 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
19769 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
19770 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
19771 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
19772 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
19773 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
19774 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
19775 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
19777 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
19778 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
19779 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
19780 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
19781 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
19782 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
19783 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
19784 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
19785 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
19786 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
19787 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
19788 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
19789 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
19790 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
19791 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19792 Found by "frosty_un".
19793 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
19794 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
19795 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
19796 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
19797 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
19798 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
19799 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
19800 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
19801 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
19802 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
19803 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
19804 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
19805 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19806 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
19807 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
19808 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
19809 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
19810 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
19811 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
19813 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
19814 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
19815 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
19816 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
19817 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
19818 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
19819 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
19820 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
19822 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
19823 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
19824 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
19825 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
19826 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
19827 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
19828 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
19829 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
19830 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
19831 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
19832 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
19833 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
19835 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
19836 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19837 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
19838 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19839 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
19840 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19841 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
19842 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
19843 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
19845 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
19847 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
19848 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
19849 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
19850 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19851 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
19852 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
19853 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
19854 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
19856 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
19857 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
19858 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
19859 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
19860 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
19862 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
19863 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
19864 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
19865 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
19866 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19869 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
19870 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
19871 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
19872 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
19873 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
19876 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
19877 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
19878 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
19879 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
19880 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
19881 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
19882 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
19883 when bridges were introduced.
19886 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
19887 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
19888 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19890 o Major features (networking):
19891 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
19892 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
19893 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
19894 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
19895 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
19899 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
19900 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
19901 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
19903 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
19904 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
19905 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
19906 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
19907 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
19909 o Minor features (diagnostics):
19910 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
19911 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
19914 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
19915 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
19916 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
19917 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
19918 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
19919 listed in the network consensus and republish.
19921 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
19922 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
19923 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
19924 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19926 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
19927 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
19928 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
19929 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
19930 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
19931 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
19932 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
19933 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
19934 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
19935 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
19936 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
19938 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
19939 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
19940 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
19941 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
19942 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
19943 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
19944 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
19945 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
19946 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
19947 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19949 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
19950 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
19951 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
19952 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
19953 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
19954 fixes part of bug 2442.
19955 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
19956 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
19957 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
19959 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
19960 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
19961 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
19962 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
19963 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19965 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
19966 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
19967 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
19968 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
19969 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
19972 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
19973 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
19974 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
19978 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
19979 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
19980 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
19981 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
19982 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
19983 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
19984 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
19987 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
19988 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
19989 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
19990 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
19991 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
19992 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
19993 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
19996 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
19997 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
19998 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
19999 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
20000 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
20001 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
20002 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
20003 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
20004 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20006 o Code refactoring:
20007 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
20008 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
20011 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
20012 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
20013 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
20014 reachable from Iran again.
20017 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
20018 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
20019 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20021 o Minor features (security):
20022 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
20023 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
20024 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
20025 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
20026 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
20027 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
20028 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
20029 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
20030 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
20031 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
20034 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
20035 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
20036 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
20037 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
20038 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
20039 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
20040 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
20041 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
20042 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20044 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
20045 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
20046 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
20047 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
20048 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
20049 raised by bug 3898.
20050 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
20051 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
20052 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
20053 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
20054 fixes part of bug 2442.
20055 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
20056 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
20057 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
20059 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
20060 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
20061 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
20062 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
20063 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20066 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
20067 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20068 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
20069 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
20070 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
20071 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
20074 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
20075 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
20076 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
20077 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
20078 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
20079 bufferevent-based networking backend.
20081 o Major features (stream isolation):
20082 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
20083 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
20084 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
20085 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
20086 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
20087 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
20088 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
20089 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
20090 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
20091 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
20092 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
20093 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
20094 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
20095 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
20097 o Major features (other):
20098 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
20099 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
20100 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
20101 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
20102 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
20103 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
20104 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
20105 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
20106 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
20107 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
20108 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
20109 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
20110 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
20112 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
20113 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
20115 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
20116 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
20117 Fixes part of bug 3752.
20118 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
20119 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
20120 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
20121 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
20122 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
20123 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
20124 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
20125 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
20126 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
20127 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
20128 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
20129 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
20130 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
20131 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
20132 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
20133 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
20134 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
20136 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
20137 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
20138 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
20139 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
20140 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
20141 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
20144 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
20145 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
20146 user. Implements ticket 1692.
20147 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
20148 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
20149 best copy data out of a buffer.
20150 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
20151 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
20152 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
20154 o Minor features (build compatibility):
20155 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
20156 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
20157 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20159 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
20160 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20162 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
20163 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
20164 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20165 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
20166 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
20167 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
20168 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20170 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
20171 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
20172 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
20173 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
20174 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
20175 raised by bug 3898.
20176 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
20177 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
20178 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
20181 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
20182 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
20183 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
20184 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
20185 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
20186 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
20187 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
20188 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
20189 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
20190 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
20191 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
20192 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20193 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
20194 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
20195 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
20196 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
20197 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
20198 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
20199 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
20202 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20203 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
20204 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
20208 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
20209 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
20210 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
20211 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
20212 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
20213 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
20216 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
20217 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
20218 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
20219 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
20220 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
20221 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
20222 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
20223 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
20224 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
20225 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
20227 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
20228 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
20229 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
20230 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
20231 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
20232 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
20233 many many other features and bugfixes.
20236 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
20237 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
20238 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
20241 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
20242 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
20243 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
20244 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
20245 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
20246 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
20247 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
20248 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
20251 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20254 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
20255 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
20256 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20257 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
20258 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
20259 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
20260 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
20261 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
20262 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
20263 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
20264 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
20265 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
20266 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
20267 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20268 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
20269 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
20270 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
20271 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
20275 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
20276 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
20277 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
20278 up a variety of recently introduced features.
20281 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
20282 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
20283 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
20284 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
20285 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
20286 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
20287 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
20288 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
20289 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
20290 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
20291 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
20292 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
20293 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
20294 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
20295 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
20296 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
20298 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
20299 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
20300 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
20301 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
20302 order. Fixes bug 2798.
20303 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
20304 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
20305 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
20306 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
20307 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
20308 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
20312 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
20313 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
20314 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
20315 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
20317 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
20318 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
20319 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
20320 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
20321 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
20322 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
20323 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
20324 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
20325 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
20326 Implements ticket 3264.
20327 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
20328 implements ticket 3439.
20330 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
20331 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
20332 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
20333 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
20334 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
20335 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
20336 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
20337 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
20338 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
20339 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
20340 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
20341 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
20342 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
20343 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
20344 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
20345 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
20346 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
20347 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
20348 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
20349 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
20350 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
20351 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
20352 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
20353 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
20354 fails. Spotted by coverity.
20355 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
20356 present. Found by coverity.
20357 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
20358 a directory cache that provides them.
20360 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
20361 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
20362 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
20363 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
20364 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
20365 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
20367 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
20368 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
20369 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20370 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
20371 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
20372 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20373 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
20374 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
20376 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20377 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
20378 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
20379 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
20380 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
20381 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
20382 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
20384 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
20388 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
20389 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
20390 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
20393 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
20394 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
20395 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
20396 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
20399 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
20400 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
20401 discovered by katmagic.
20402 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
20403 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
20404 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
20405 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20406 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
20407 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
20408 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
20409 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
20410 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
20411 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
20412 fixes part of bug 3465.
20413 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
20414 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
20418 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20421 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
20422 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
20423 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
20424 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
20425 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
20428 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
20429 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
20430 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
20431 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
20432 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
20435 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
20436 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
20437 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
20438 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
20439 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
20440 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
20443 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
20444 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
20445 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
20446 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
20447 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
20448 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
20449 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
20450 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
20451 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
20452 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
20453 fixes part of bug 3407.
20454 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
20455 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
20456 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
20457 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
20458 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
20459 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
20460 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
20461 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
20462 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
20463 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
20465 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
20466 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
20467 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
20468 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
20471 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20473 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20474 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
20475 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
20477 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
20479 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
20482 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
20483 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
20484 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
20485 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
20486 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
20487 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
20491 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
20492 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
20493 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
20494 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
20495 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
20496 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
20497 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
20499 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
20500 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
20501 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
20502 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
20503 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
20504 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
20505 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
20506 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
20507 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
20508 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
20509 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
20510 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
20511 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
20512 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
20513 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
20514 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
20515 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
20516 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
20517 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
20521 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
20522 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
20523 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
20524 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
20525 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
20526 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
20527 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
20528 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
20529 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
20533 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
20534 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
20535 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
20537 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
20539 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
20540 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
20541 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
20542 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
20543 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20544 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
20545 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
20546 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
20547 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
20549 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
20550 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
20551 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
20552 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
20553 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
20554 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
20556 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
20557 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
20559 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
20560 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
20561 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
20564 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
20565 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
20566 Resolves ticket 3252.
20567 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
20568 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
20569 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
20570 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
20571 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
20572 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
20575 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
20576 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
20579 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
20580 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
20581 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
20584 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
20585 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
20586 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
20587 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
20588 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
20591 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
20592 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
20593 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
20594 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
20595 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
20596 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
20597 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
20598 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
20599 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
20603 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
20604 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
20605 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
20606 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
20607 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
20609 o Security/privacy fixes:
20610 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
20611 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
20612 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
20613 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
20614 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
20615 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
20616 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
20617 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
20618 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
20619 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
20620 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
20621 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
20622 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
20623 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
20624 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20627 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
20628 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
20629 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
20630 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
20631 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
20632 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
20633 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
20634 part of ticket 3076.
20635 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
20636 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
20637 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
20641 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
20642 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
20643 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
20644 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
20645 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
20646 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
20647 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
20648 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
20650 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
20651 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
20652 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
20653 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
20654 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
20655 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
20656 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
20657 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
20658 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
20659 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
20660 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
20661 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
20662 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20665 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
20666 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
20667 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
20668 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
20669 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
20670 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
20671 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
20673 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
20674 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
20675 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
20676 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
20677 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
20678 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
20679 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
20680 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
20681 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
20682 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
20683 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
20684 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
20685 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
20686 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
20687 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
20688 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
20690 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
20691 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
20693 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
20694 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
20696 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
20697 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
20699 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
20700 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
20701 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20703 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
20704 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
20705 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
20706 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
20707 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20708 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
20709 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
20710 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
20711 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
20712 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
20713 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
20715 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
20716 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
20717 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
20718 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
20719 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
20720 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
20721 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
20722 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
20723 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
20724 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
20725 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20726 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
20727 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
20730 o Removed features:
20731 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
20732 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
20733 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
20737 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
20738 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
20739 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
20740 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
20741 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
20742 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
20744 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
20745 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
20746 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
20749 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
20750 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
20751 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
20752 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
20753 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
20754 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
20755 zero-copy transports where available.
20756 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
20757 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
20758 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
20759 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
20760 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
20761 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
20762 debug it as it breaks.
20763 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
20764 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
20765 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
20766 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
20767 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
20768 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
20769 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
20770 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
20771 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
20772 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
20773 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
20774 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
20775 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
20776 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
20777 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
20778 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
20779 PortForwarding option.
20780 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
20781 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
20782 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
20783 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
20784 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
20785 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
20786 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
20789 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
20790 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
20791 Implements enhancement 1668.
20792 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
20794 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
20795 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
20796 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
20797 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
20798 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
20799 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
20800 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
20802 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
20803 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
20804 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
20805 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
20806 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
20807 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
20808 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
20810 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
20811 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
20812 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
20813 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
20814 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
20815 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
20816 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
20818 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
20819 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
20820 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
20821 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
20822 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20823 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
20824 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
20825 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
20826 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
20827 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
20828 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
20829 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
20830 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
20831 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
20832 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
20835 o Minor features (controller):
20836 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
20837 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
20838 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
20839 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
20840 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
20841 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
20842 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
20845 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
20846 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
20847 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
20848 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
20849 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
20850 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
20851 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
20852 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
20854 o Minor packaging issues:
20855 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
20856 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
20858 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20859 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
20860 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
20861 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
20862 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
20863 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
20864 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
20865 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
20866 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
20867 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
20868 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
20869 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
20870 our library structure used to force them to link it.
20872 o Removed features:
20873 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
20874 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
20875 are no longer in use as servers.
20877 o Documentation fixes:
20878 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
20879 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
20880 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
20884 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
20885 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
20886 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
20887 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
20888 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
20889 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
20890 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
20891 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
20892 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
20893 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
20896 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
20897 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
20898 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
20899 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
20900 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
20901 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
20902 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
20903 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
20904 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
20905 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20906 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
20907 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
20908 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
20909 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
20910 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
20911 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
20913 o Security and stability fixes:
20914 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
20915 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
20916 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
20917 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
20918 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
20919 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
20920 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
20921 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
20922 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
20923 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
20924 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
20925 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
20926 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20927 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
20928 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
20929 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
20932 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
20933 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
20934 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
20935 contributions to the network.
20937 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
20938 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
20939 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
20940 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
20941 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
20942 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
20943 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
20944 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
20945 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
20946 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
20947 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
20948 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
20949 connections to directory servers.
20950 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
20951 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
20952 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
20953 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
20954 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
20955 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
20956 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
20957 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
20958 information, or fetch directory information.
20959 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
20960 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
20961 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
20962 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
20963 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
20964 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
20965 unless you really want your Tor to break.
20966 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
20967 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
20968 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
20969 - When StrictNodes is 1:
20970 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
20971 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
20972 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
20973 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
20974 reachability self-tests.
20975 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
20976 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
20977 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
20978 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
20979 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
20980 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
20981 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
20983 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
20984 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20985 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
20986 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
20987 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
20988 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
20989 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
20990 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
20991 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
20992 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
20993 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
20996 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
20997 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
20998 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
20999 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
21000 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
21001 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
21002 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
21003 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
21004 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
21005 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
21006 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
21007 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21008 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
21009 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
21010 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
21011 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
21012 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
21014 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
21015 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
21016 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
21017 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
21018 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21019 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
21020 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21021 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
21022 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
21023 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
21024 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
21025 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
21026 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
21027 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
21028 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
21029 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
21030 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
21031 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
21032 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
21033 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
21036 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
21037 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
21038 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
21039 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
21040 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
21041 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
21042 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
21043 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
21044 Required by fix for bug 3000.
21045 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
21046 by fix for bug 3000.
21047 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
21048 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
21050 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21051 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
21052 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
21053 send a body too). Since only server versions before
21054 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
21055 keep the workaround in place.
21056 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
21057 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
21058 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
21059 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
21060 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
21061 want to do it differently.
21062 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
21063 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
21064 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
21065 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
21066 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
21070 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
21071 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
21072 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
21073 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
21074 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
21077 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
21078 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
21079 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
21080 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
21081 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
21083 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
21084 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
21085 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
21086 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
21087 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
21088 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
21089 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
21090 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
21091 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
21092 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
21093 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
21094 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
21097 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
21098 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
21099 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
21100 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
21101 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
21102 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
21103 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
21105 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
21106 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
21107 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
21108 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
21109 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
21110 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
21111 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
21112 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
21113 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
21114 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
21115 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
21116 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
21117 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
21118 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
21119 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
21120 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
21121 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
21122 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
21123 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
21124 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
21125 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
21126 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
21127 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21130 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
21131 networkstatus vote.
21132 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
21133 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
21134 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
21136 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
21137 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
21138 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
21139 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
21141 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
21142 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
21143 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
21144 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21147 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
21148 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
21150 o Documentation changes:
21151 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
21152 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
21154 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
21157 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
21158 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
21159 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
21160 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
21161 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
21162 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
21165 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
21166 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
21167 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
21168 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
21169 the rest of bug 1074.
21170 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
21171 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
21172 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21173 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
21174 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
21175 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
21176 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21177 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
21178 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
21179 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
21180 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
21181 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
21182 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
21183 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21186 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
21187 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
21188 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
21189 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
21190 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
21191 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
21192 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
21193 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
21194 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
21195 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
21196 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
21197 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
21198 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
21199 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
21201 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
21202 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
21203 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
21204 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
21205 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
21206 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
21208 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
21209 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
21210 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
21211 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
21212 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
21213 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
21214 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
21215 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
21216 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
21217 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21218 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
21219 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
21220 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
21221 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
21222 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
21223 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
21224 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
21225 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
21226 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
21227 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
21228 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
21229 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
21230 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
21231 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21232 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
21233 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
21235 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
21236 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
21237 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
21238 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
21239 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
21240 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
21242 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
21243 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
21244 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
21246 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
21247 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
21248 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
21249 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
21250 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
21251 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
21252 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
21253 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
21254 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
21255 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
21256 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
21257 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
21258 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
21262 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
21263 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
21264 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
21265 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
21266 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
21267 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
21268 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
21269 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
21270 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
21271 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
21272 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
21273 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
21275 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21277 o Minor features (log subsystem):
21278 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
21279 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
21280 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
21282 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
21283 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
21285 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
21286 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
21287 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
21290 o Packaging changes:
21291 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
21292 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
21293 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
21296 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
21297 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
21298 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
21299 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
21300 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
21301 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
21304 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
21305 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
21306 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
21307 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
21308 the rest of bug 1074.
21309 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
21310 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21311 Found by "piebeer".
21312 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
21313 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
21314 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
21315 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
21316 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
21317 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
21318 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21321 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
21323 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21326 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
21327 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
21328 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
21329 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
21330 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
21331 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
21332 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
21333 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
21334 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
21335 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
21336 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21338 o Packaging changes:
21339 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
21340 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
21341 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
21342 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
21343 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
21344 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
21347 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
21348 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
21349 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
21350 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
21351 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
21352 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
21355 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
21356 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21357 Found by "piebeer".
21358 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
21359 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
21360 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
21361 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
21364 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
21366 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
21367 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
21368 Implements ticket 2432.
21371 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
21372 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
21373 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
21376 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
21377 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
21378 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
21379 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
21380 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
21381 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
21383 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
21384 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
21385 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
21386 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
21388 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
21389 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
21390 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
21391 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
21392 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
21393 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
21394 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
21395 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
21397 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
21398 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
21399 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
21400 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
21401 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
21402 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
21403 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
21404 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
21405 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
21406 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
21407 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
21408 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
21409 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
21410 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
21413 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
21414 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
21415 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
21416 bug reported by doorss.
21417 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
21418 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
21419 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21420 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
21421 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
21423 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
21424 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
21425 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
21426 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
21427 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
21429 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
21430 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21431 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
21433 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
21434 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
21435 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
21436 Automake 1.7 or later.
21437 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
21438 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
21439 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
21440 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
21442 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
21443 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
21444 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
21447 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
21448 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
21449 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
21450 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
21452 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
21453 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
21454 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
21455 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
21456 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
21457 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
21458 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
21459 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
21460 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
21462 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
21463 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
21464 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
21467 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
21468 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
21469 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
21470 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
21471 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
21472 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
21473 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
21474 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
21475 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
21476 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
21477 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
21478 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
21479 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
21481 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
21482 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
21486 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
21487 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
21488 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
21489 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
21490 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
21492 o Major bugfixes (security):
21493 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
21494 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
21495 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
21497 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
21498 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
21499 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
21500 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
21501 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
21502 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
21503 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
21504 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
21506 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
21507 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
21508 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
21509 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
21510 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
21511 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
21512 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
21513 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
21514 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
21515 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
21516 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
21517 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
21518 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
21519 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
21522 o Minor bugfixes (other):
21523 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
21524 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
21525 bug reported by doorss.
21526 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
21527 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
21528 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21529 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
21530 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
21532 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
21533 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
21534 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
21535 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
21536 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
21537 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
21538 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
21539 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
21540 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
21543 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21544 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
21547 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
21548 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
21549 Automake 1.7 or later.
21552 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
21553 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
21554 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
21555 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
21556 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
21559 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
21560 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
21561 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
21562 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
21563 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
21564 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
21565 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
21566 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
21567 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
21568 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
21569 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
21571 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
21572 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
21573 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
21574 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
21576 o Directory authority changes:
21577 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
21580 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
21581 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
21582 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
21583 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
21584 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
21585 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
21586 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
21587 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
21588 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
21591 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21592 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
21593 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
21594 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
21595 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
21596 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
21597 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
21598 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
21599 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
21600 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
21604 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
21605 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
21606 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
21607 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
21611 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
21612 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
21613 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
21614 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
21616 o Directory authority changes:
21617 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
21620 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21623 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
21624 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
21625 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
21626 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
21627 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
21630 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
21631 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
21632 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
21633 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
21634 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
21635 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
21636 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
21637 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
21638 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
21639 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
21640 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
21641 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
21642 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
21643 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
21644 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
21645 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
21646 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
21647 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
21648 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
21649 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
21650 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
21651 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
21652 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
21655 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
21656 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
21657 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
21658 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
21660 o New directory authorities:
21661 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
21665 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
21666 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
21667 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
21669 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
21670 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
21671 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
21672 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
21673 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
21674 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
21676 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
21677 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
21678 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
21681 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
21682 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
21683 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
21684 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
21685 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
21686 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
21687 Patch from mingw-san.
21690 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
21691 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
21692 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
21693 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
21694 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
21695 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
21698 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
21699 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
21700 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
21703 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
21704 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
21705 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
21706 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
21707 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
21710 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
21711 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
21712 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
21713 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
21714 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
21715 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
21716 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
21717 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
21718 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
21721 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
21722 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
21723 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
21724 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
21725 to a stable release.
21728 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
21729 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
21730 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
21731 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
21732 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
21733 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
21734 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
21735 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
21736 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
21737 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
21738 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
21739 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
21740 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
21741 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
21742 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
21743 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
21744 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
21745 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
21746 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
21747 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
21748 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
21749 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
21750 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
21751 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
21752 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
21753 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
21754 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
21755 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
21756 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
21757 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
21758 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
21761 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
21762 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
21763 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
21764 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
21765 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
21766 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
21767 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
21768 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
21769 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
21770 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
21771 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
21772 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
21773 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
21774 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21775 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
21776 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
21777 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
21779 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
21780 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
21781 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
21782 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
21783 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
21785 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
21786 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
21787 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
21788 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
21791 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
21792 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
21793 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
21794 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
21795 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
21796 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
21797 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
21798 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21800 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21801 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
21802 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
21803 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
21804 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
21805 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
21806 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
21807 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
21808 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
21809 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
21810 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
21811 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
21812 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
21813 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
21814 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
21817 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
21818 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
21819 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
21820 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
21821 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
21822 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
21823 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
21824 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
21825 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
21828 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
21829 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
21830 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
21831 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
21832 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
21834 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
21835 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
21836 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
21837 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
21838 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
21839 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
21840 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
21841 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
21842 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
21843 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
21844 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
21845 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
21846 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
21847 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
21849 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
21850 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
21852 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
21853 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
21854 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
21855 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
21856 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
21857 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
21858 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
21859 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
21860 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
21861 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
21862 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
21863 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
21864 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
21865 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
21866 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
21867 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
21868 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
21869 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
21871 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
21872 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
21873 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
21874 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
21875 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
21876 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
21877 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
21878 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
21879 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
21880 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
21881 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
21882 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
21883 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
21885 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
21886 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
21887 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
21888 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21891 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
21892 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
21893 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
21894 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
21895 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
21896 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
21897 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
21898 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
21899 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
21900 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
21901 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
21902 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
21903 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
21904 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
21905 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
21906 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
21907 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
21908 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
21909 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
21912 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
21913 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
21914 based on the time during which we were active and not in
21915 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
21916 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
21917 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
21918 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
21919 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
21921 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
21922 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
21923 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
21924 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
21925 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
21926 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
21927 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
21928 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
21929 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
21930 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
21933 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
21934 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
21935 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
21936 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
21938 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
21939 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
21940 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
21941 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
21942 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
21943 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
21944 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
21945 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
21946 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
21947 the longest-lived bug prize.
21948 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
21949 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
21950 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
21951 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
21952 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
21953 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
21955 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
21956 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
21957 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
21958 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
21959 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
21960 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
21964 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21965 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
21966 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
21967 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
21968 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
21969 got suppressed since the last warning.
21970 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
21971 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
21972 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
21973 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
21974 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
21975 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
21976 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
21977 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
21978 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
21979 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
21980 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
21981 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
21982 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
21983 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
21984 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
21985 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
21986 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
21987 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
21988 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
21990 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
21991 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
21992 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
21994 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
21995 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
21996 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
21997 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
21998 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
21999 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
22000 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
22001 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
22002 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
22003 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
22004 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
22005 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
22006 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
22007 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
22008 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
22010 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
22011 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
22012 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
22013 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
22014 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
22015 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22016 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
22018 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
22019 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
22020 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
22021 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
22022 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
22025 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
22026 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
22027 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
22028 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
22029 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
22030 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
22031 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
22032 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
22033 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
22034 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
22035 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
22036 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
22037 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
22038 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
22039 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
22040 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
22041 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
22042 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
22045 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
22048 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
22049 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
22050 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
22051 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
22052 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
22056 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
22057 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
22058 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
22059 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
22060 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
22061 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
22062 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
22063 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
22064 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
22065 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
22066 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
22067 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
22068 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
22069 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
22070 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
22071 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
22072 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
22075 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
22076 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
22077 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
22078 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
22079 they first get the Guard flag.
22080 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
22084 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22085 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
22086 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
22087 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
22088 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
22089 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
22090 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
22091 Patch from mingw-san.
22092 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
22093 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
22095 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
22096 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
22097 Implements enhancement 1790.
22099 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
22100 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
22101 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
22102 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
22103 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
22104 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
22105 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
22106 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
22107 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
22108 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
22109 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
22110 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
22111 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
22112 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
22113 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
22114 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
22115 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
22116 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
22117 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
22118 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
22120 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
22121 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
22122 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
22123 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
22124 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
22125 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
22126 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
22127 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
22128 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
22129 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
22130 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
22131 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
22132 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
22134 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
22135 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
22136 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
22137 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
22138 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
22139 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
22141 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
22142 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
22143 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
22144 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
22145 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
22146 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
22147 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
22148 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
22149 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
22150 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
22151 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
22152 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
22154 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
22155 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
22156 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
22157 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
22158 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
22159 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
22160 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
22162 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
22164 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
22165 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
22166 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
22167 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
22168 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
22169 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
22171 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22172 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
22173 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
22174 structures and defines in or.h for now.
22175 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
22176 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
22177 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
22178 statistics code to be more easily tested.
22179 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
22180 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
22181 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
22184 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
22185 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
22186 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
22187 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
22188 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
22189 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
22193 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
22194 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
22195 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
22196 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
22197 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
22198 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
22199 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
22200 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
22201 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
22202 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
22203 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
22204 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
22205 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
22207 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
22208 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
22209 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
22210 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
22211 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
22212 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
22213 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
22214 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
22215 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
22216 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
22217 can be controlled by the consensus.
22220 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
22221 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
22222 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
22223 more accurate data for many African countries.
22224 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
22225 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
22226 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
22227 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
22228 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
22229 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
22230 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
22231 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
22232 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
22233 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
22234 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
22235 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
22237 o New directory authorities:
22238 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
22242 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
22243 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
22244 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
22245 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
22246 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
22247 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
22248 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
22249 what should go in a patch.
22250 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
22251 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
22252 over our stored history.
22253 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
22254 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
22255 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
22256 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
22257 file. Fixes bug 1296.
22258 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
22259 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
22260 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
22264 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
22266 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
22267 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
22268 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
22269 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
22270 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
22271 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
22272 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
22273 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
22274 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
22275 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
22276 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
22277 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22278 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
22279 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
22280 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
22281 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
22282 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
22283 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
22284 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
22285 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
22286 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
22287 two-hop circuits are actually created.
22288 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
22289 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22290 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
22291 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22294 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
22295 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
22296 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
22297 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
22298 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
22300 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
22301 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
22304 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
22305 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
22306 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
22307 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
22308 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
22309 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
22310 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
22311 their directory fetches over TLS).
22312 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
22313 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
22314 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
22315 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
22316 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
22317 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
22318 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
22319 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
22322 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
22323 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
22327 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
22328 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22329 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
22330 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
22331 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
22332 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
22333 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22336 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
22337 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
22338 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
22339 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
22340 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
22343 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
22344 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
22345 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
22346 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
22347 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
22348 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
22349 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
22350 their directory fetches over TLS).
22353 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
22354 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
22356 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
22357 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
22358 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
22359 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
22360 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
22361 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
22362 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
22363 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
22364 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
22365 hour of their uptime.
22368 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
22369 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
22370 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
22374 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
22375 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
22376 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
22377 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
22378 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
22379 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
22381 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
22382 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
22383 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
22385 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
22386 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
22390 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
22391 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
22392 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
22396 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
22397 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
22398 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
22401 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
22402 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
22403 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
22404 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
22405 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
22406 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
22407 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
22408 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
22409 about the option without breaking older ones.
22410 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
22411 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
22412 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
22413 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
22416 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
22417 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
22418 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
22419 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
22421 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
22422 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
22423 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
22426 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
22427 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
22429 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
22430 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
22431 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
22432 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
22433 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
22434 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
22435 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22436 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
22437 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
22438 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
22439 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
22442 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
22443 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22444 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
22445 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
22446 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
22447 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
22448 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22451 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
22452 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
22453 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
22454 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
22455 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
22456 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
22459 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
22460 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
22461 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
22462 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
22464 o Major features (performance):
22465 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
22466 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
22467 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
22468 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
22469 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
22470 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
22471 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
22473 o Minor features (performance):
22474 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
22475 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
22476 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
22477 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
22478 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
22482 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
22483 speeds up the build considerably.
22485 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
22486 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
22487 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22488 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
22489 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
22490 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
22491 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
22492 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22494 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
22495 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
22496 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
22498 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
22499 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
22500 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
22501 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
22503 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22504 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
22505 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
22506 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
22507 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
22508 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
22511 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
22512 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
22513 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
22515 o Directory authority changes:
22516 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
22517 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
22518 service directory authority) from the list.
22521 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
22522 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
22523 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
22524 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
22525 libraries in a security patch.
22526 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
22527 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
22528 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
22529 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
22531 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
22532 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
22533 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
22534 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
22535 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
22536 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
22537 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
22540 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
22541 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
22542 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
22543 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
22544 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
22545 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
22546 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
22547 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
22548 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
22549 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
22550 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
22551 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
22552 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
22554 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
22555 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
22556 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
22557 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
22558 control-spec.txt said they were.
22559 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
22560 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
22561 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
22562 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
22563 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22565 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22566 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
22567 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
22568 produce nicer HTML.
22569 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
22570 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
22571 iPhone SDK versions.
22572 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
22573 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
22574 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
22575 projects directory in svn.
22576 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
22577 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
22578 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
22579 high latency links.
22582 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
22583 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
22584 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
22586 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
22587 to the circuit build timeout.
22588 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
22589 arguments we do not recognize.
22590 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
22591 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
22592 open() without checking it.
22595 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
22596 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
22597 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
22598 several minor potential security bugs.
22601 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
22602 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
22603 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
22604 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
22605 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
22606 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
22607 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
22610 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
22611 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
22613 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
22614 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
22615 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
22616 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
22620 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
22621 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
22625 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
22626 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
22627 customized patches to run/build.
22630 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
22631 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
22632 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
22635 o Major bugfixes (performance):
22636 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
22637 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
22638 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
22639 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
22640 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
22641 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
22642 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
22645 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
22646 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
22647 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
22648 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
22649 libraries in a security patch.
22650 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
22651 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
22652 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
22653 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
22656 o Directory authority changes:
22657 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
22658 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
22659 service directory authority) from the list.
22662 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
22663 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
22666 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
22667 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
22668 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
22669 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
22670 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
22673 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
22674 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
22675 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
22679 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
22680 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
22681 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
22682 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
22683 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
22686 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
22687 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
22688 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
22692 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
22693 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
22694 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
22695 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
22696 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
22698 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
22699 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
22701 o Directory authority changes:
22702 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
22705 o Major features (performance):
22706 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
22707 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
22708 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
22709 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
22710 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
22711 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
22712 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
22713 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
22714 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
22715 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
22716 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
22717 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
22718 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
22720 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
22721 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
22722 but never per-conn write limits.
22723 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
22724 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
22725 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
22726 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
22728 o Major features (relay selection options):
22729 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
22730 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
22731 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
22732 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
22733 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
22734 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
22735 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
22737 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
22738 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
22740 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
22741 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
22742 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
22743 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
22744 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
22745 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
22746 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
22747 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
22748 the network changes.
22751 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
22752 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
22753 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22756 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
22757 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
22758 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
22759 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
22760 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
22761 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
22762 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
22763 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
22764 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
22765 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
22766 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
22767 generated while acting as a relay.
22768 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
22769 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
22770 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
22771 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
22772 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
22773 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
22775 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
22776 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
22777 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22778 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
22779 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
22780 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
22783 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
22784 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
22785 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
22787 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
22788 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
22789 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
22791 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
22792 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
22794 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
22795 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
22796 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
22798 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
22799 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
22802 o Minor bugfixes (other):
22803 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
22804 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
22805 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
22806 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
22807 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
22808 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
22809 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
22810 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
22812 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
22815 o Removed features:
22816 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
22817 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
22818 hidden service usage.
22821 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
22822 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
22823 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
22824 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
22825 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
22827 o Directory authority changes:
22828 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
22832 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
22833 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
22834 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22837 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
22838 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
22839 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
22840 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
22841 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
22844 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
22845 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
22846 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
22847 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
22848 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
22849 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
22850 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
22853 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
22854 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
22855 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22856 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
22857 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
22858 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
22860 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
22861 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
22864 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
22865 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
22866 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
22867 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
22868 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
22869 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
22872 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
22873 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
22874 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
22876 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
22877 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
22878 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
22879 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
22880 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
22881 download consensus + microdescriptors".
22882 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
22883 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
22884 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
22885 hash algorithm in the future.
22886 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
22887 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
22888 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
22889 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
22890 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
22891 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
22892 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
22893 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
22894 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
22897 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
22898 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
22899 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
22900 won't work unless we say we are.
22903 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
22904 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
22905 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
22906 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
22907 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
22908 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
22909 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
22910 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
22911 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22912 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
22913 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
22914 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
22915 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
22916 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
22917 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
22918 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
22919 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
22920 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
22921 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
22922 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
22923 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
22924 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
22927 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
22928 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
22929 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
22930 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
22932 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
22933 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
22935 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
22936 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
22937 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
22938 in the Vidalia Settings window.
22941 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
22942 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
22943 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
22944 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
22945 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
22947 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
22948 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
22950 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
22951 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
22952 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
22955 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
22956 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
22957 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
22959 o New directory authorities:
22960 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
22962 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
22965 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
22966 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
22968 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
22969 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
22970 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22971 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
22972 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
22973 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
22974 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22975 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
22976 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
22977 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
22978 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
22979 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
22980 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
22981 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
22982 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
22983 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
22984 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
22986 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
22987 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
22988 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
22990 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
22991 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
22995 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
22996 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
22997 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
22998 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
22999 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
23002 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
23003 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
23006 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
23008 o Directory authorities:
23009 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
23013 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
23014 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
23015 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
23016 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
23017 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
23020 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
23021 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
23022 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
23023 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
23025 o New directory authorities:
23026 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
23029 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
23030 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
23031 SSL handshake issues.
23032 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
23033 during the TLS handshake.
23034 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
23035 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
23036 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
23037 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
23038 none of which are very big.
23041 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
23043 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
23044 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
23045 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
23046 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
23047 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
23048 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
23049 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
23050 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
23053 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23054 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
23055 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
23056 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
23057 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
23060 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
23061 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
23064 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
23065 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
23068 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
23069 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
23070 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
23073 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
23074 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
23075 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
23076 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
23077 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
23078 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
23081 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
23082 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
23083 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
23084 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
23085 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
23086 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
23087 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
23088 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
23089 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
23090 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
23091 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
23092 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
23093 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
23094 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
23095 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
23096 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
23097 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
23098 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
23101 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
23102 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
23106 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
23107 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
23108 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
23109 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
23110 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
23111 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
23112 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23113 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
23114 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
23115 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
23116 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23117 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
23118 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
23119 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
23120 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
23121 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
23122 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
23123 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
23124 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
23125 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
23126 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
23128 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
23129 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
23130 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
23131 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23132 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
23133 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
23135 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
23136 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
23137 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
23140 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
23141 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
23142 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
23143 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
23144 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
23145 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
23148 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
23149 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
23150 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
23151 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
23152 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
23155 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
23156 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
23157 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
23160 o New directory authorities:
23161 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
23165 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
23166 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
23167 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
23168 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
23169 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
23172 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
23173 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
23174 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
23175 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
23176 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
23179 o New options for gathering stats safely:
23180 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
23181 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
23182 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
23183 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
23184 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
23185 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
23186 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
23187 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
23188 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
23190 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
23191 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
23192 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
23193 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
23195 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
23196 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
23197 their extra-info documents.
23200 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
23201 source files Tor was built with.
23202 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
23203 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
23204 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
23205 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
23206 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
23207 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
23209 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
23210 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
23211 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
23212 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
23213 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
23215 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
23216 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
23219 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
23220 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
23221 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
23222 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
23223 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
23225 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
23226 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
23228 o Deprecated and removed features:
23229 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
23230 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
23231 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
23232 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
23233 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
23234 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
23235 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
23236 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
23238 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
23239 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
23240 via application-level web tricks.
23242 o Packaging changes:
23243 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
23244 installer bundles. See
23245 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
23246 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
23247 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
23248 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
23249 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
23250 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
23251 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
23252 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
23253 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
23254 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
23255 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
23256 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
23259 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
23260 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
23261 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
23264 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
23265 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
23266 part of patch provided by "optimist".
23269 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
23270 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
23271 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
23272 and confuse fewer users.
23275 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
23276 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
23277 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
23278 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
23279 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
23280 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
23281 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
23284 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
23285 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
23286 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
23287 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
23288 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
23289 other features and bug fixes.
23292 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
23295 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
23296 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
23297 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
23298 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
23299 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
23302 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
23303 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
23304 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
23305 failure message (oops).
23308 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
23309 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
23310 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
23311 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
23315 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
23316 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
23317 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
23318 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
23319 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
23320 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
23321 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23322 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
23323 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
23324 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
23325 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
23326 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
23327 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
23328 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
23329 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
23332 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
23333 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
23334 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
23335 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
23336 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
23337 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
23338 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
23339 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
23340 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
23341 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
23342 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
23343 Workaround for bug 1024.
23344 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
23348 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
23349 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
23350 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
23353 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
23355 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
23356 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
23357 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
23358 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
23359 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
23362 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
23363 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
23364 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
23365 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
23366 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
23367 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
23368 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
23369 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
23370 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
23371 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
23374 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
23375 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
23376 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
23377 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
23378 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
23379 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
23380 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
23381 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
23384 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
23385 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
23386 a bunch of minor bugs.
23389 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
23390 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
23391 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
23393 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
23394 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
23395 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
23396 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
23398 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
23402 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
23403 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
23404 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
23406 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
23407 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
23409 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
23410 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
23412 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
23413 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
23414 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
23415 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
23416 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
23417 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
23418 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
23419 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
23421 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
23422 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
23423 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
23425 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
23426 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
23427 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
23428 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
23429 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
23433 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
23434 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
23435 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
23436 of more minor bugs.
23438 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
23439 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
23440 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
23441 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
23443 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
23444 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
23445 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
23446 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
23447 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
23448 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
23449 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
23450 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
23451 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
23452 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
23453 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
23454 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23455 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
23456 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
23457 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
23458 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
23459 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
23461 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
23462 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
23463 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
23464 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23466 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
23467 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
23468 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
23471 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
23472 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
23473 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
23474 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
23475 addresses to fall out of the directory.
23478 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
23479 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
23480 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
23481 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
23483 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
23484 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
23485 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
23486 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
23487 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
23488 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
23489 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
23490 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
23491 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
23492 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
23493 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
23494 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
23495 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
23496 patch by Sebastian.
23497 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
23498 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
23501 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
23502 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
23503 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
23504 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
23505 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
23506 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
23508 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
23509 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
23510 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
23511 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
23512 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
23514 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
23517 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
23518 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
23520 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
23521 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
23522 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23523 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23524 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
23525 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
23527 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
23528 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23529 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
23530 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
23531 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
23532 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23533 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
23534 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
23535 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
23536 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
23537 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
23538 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
23542 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
23543 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
23544 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
23547 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
23548 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
23549 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23551 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
23552 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
23553 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
23554 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
23555 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
23556 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
23557 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
23558 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
23559 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
23560 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
23561 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
23562 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
23563 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
23564 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
23565 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
23566 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
23567 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
23568 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
23569 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
23570 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
23571 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
23572 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
23573 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
23574 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
23575 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
23576 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
23578 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
23579 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
23580 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
23581 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
23582 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
23583 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
23584 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
23585 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
23586 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
23587 of 0. Suggested by lark.
23589 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
23590 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
23591 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
23592 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
23593 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
23596 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
23598 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
23599 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
23600 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
23601 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
23604 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
23605 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
23606 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
23607 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
23608 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
23610 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
23611 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
23612 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
23613 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
23616 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
23617 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
23618 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
23619 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
23620 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
23621 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
23622 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
23623 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
23626 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
23627 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
23628 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
23629 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
23632 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
23633 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
23634 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
23635 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
23636 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
23637 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
23640 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
23641 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
23642 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
23643 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
23644 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
23645 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
23648 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
23649 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
23650 reported by Matt Edman.
23651 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
23653 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
23654 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
23655 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
23656 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
23658 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
23659 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23660 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
23661 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23662 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
23663 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
23664 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
23665 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
23666 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
23667 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
23668 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
23669 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
23670 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
23671 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
23672 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
23673 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
23674 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
23675 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
23676 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23679 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
23680 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
23681 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
23682 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
23685 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
23686 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
23687 the letter of C99's alias rules.
23690 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
23691 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
23692 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
23693 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
23695 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
23696 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
23697 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
23700 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
23701 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
23704 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
23705 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
23706 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
23707 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
23708 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
23709 reported by "wood".
23710 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
23711 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
23712 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
23713 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
23714 identify a connection.
23715 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
23716 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
23717 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
23718 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
23719 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
23720 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
23721 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
23722 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
23723 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
23724 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
23726 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
23727 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
23728 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
23729 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
23730 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
23731 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
23732 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
23735 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
23736 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
23738 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
23739 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
23740 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
23741 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
23742 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
23743 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
23744 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23745 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
23747 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
23748 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
23749 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
23750 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
23751 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
23752 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
23753 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
23754 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
23755 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
23756 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
23757 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
23758 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
23759 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
23760 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
23761 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
23762 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
23763 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
23764 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
23765 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
23766 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
23767 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
23768 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
23769 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
23770 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
23771 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
23772 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
23773 840. Patch from rovv.
23774 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
23775 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
23776 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
23778 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
23779 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
23780 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
23781 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
23782 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
23783 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
23784 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
23786 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
23787 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
23788 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
23791 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
23792 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
23794 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
23795 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
23796 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
23797 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
23798 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
23799 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
23800 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
23801 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
23802 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
23804 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
23806 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
23807 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
23811 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
23812 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
23813 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
23814 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
23815 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
23816 have had some time to upgrade.)
23819 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
23820 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
23823 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
23824 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
23825 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
23826 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
23827 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
23830 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
23831 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
23833 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
23834 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
23835 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
23836 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
23837 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
23838 entirely. Patch from coderman.
23841 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
23842 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
23843 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
23844 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
23845 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
23846 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23847 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
23851 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
23852 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
23853 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
23854 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
23855 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
23856 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
23857 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
23860 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
23861 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
23862 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
23863 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
23864 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
23866 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
23867 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
23868 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
23869 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
23870 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
23871 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
23872 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
23873 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
23874 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
23875 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
23879 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
23880 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
23881 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
23883 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
23884 without support for deprecated functions.
23885 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
23887 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
23888 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
23889 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
23890 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
23891 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
23892 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
23893 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
23894 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
23895 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
23896 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
23897 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
23898 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
23899 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
23900 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
23901 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
23902 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
23903 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
23904 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
23905 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
23906 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
23907 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
23908 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
23909 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
23911 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
23912 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
23913 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
23914 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
23915 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
23916 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
23918 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
23919 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
23920 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
23921 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
23922 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
23924 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
23925 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
23926 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
23928 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
23929 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
23932 o Deprecated and removed features:
23933 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
23934 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
23935 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
23938 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23939 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
23940 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
23941 with log.h on Android.
23942 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
23943 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
23946 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
23947 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
23949 o New directory authorities:
23950 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
23954 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
23955 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
23956 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
23957 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
23958 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
23959 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23962 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
23963 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
23964 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
23965 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
23966 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
23967 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
23968 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
23969 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
23970 reported by "wood".
23971 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
23972 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
23973 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
23974 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
23977 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
23978 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
23980 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
23981 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
23982 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
23983 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
23984 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
23985 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
23986 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
23987 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
23988 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
23989 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
23990 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
23991 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
23992 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
23993 Implements proposal 148.
23994 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
23995 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
23996 system to do it for us.
23997 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
23998 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
23999 this fix will be slightly helpful.
24000 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
24001 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
24002 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
24003 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
24004 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
24005 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
24006 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
24007 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
24008 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
24011 o Minor features (controller):
24012 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
24013 been fetched and validated.
24014 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
24015 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
24016 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
24017 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
24018 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
24019 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
24022 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
24023 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
24024 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
24025 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
24026 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
24028 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
24029 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
24030 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
24031 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
24032 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
24033 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
24034 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
24035 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
24036 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
24038 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
24039 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
24040 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
24041 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
24042 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
24043 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
24044 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
24045 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
24047 o Deprecated and removed features:
24048 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
24050 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
24051 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
24052 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
24054 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24055 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
24056 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
24058 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
24059 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
24060 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
24061 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
24062 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
24063 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
24066 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
24067 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
24068 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
24069 fixes a variety of other issues.
24072 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
24073 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
24074 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
24075 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
24078 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
24079 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
24080 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
24081 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24084 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
24085 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24086 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
24090 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
24092 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
24093 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
24094 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
24095 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
24096 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
24097 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
24098 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
24100 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
24101 rest, and don't automatically fail.
24102 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
24103 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24104 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
24105 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
24107 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
24108 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
24109 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
24110 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
24111 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
24112 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
24113 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
24114 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
24115 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
24116 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
24118 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
24122 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
24123 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
24124 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
24126 o Minor features (controller):
24127 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
24131 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
24132 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
24133 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
24134 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
24135 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
24136 variety of other issues.
24139 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
24140 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
24141 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
24142 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
24143 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
24144 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
24145 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
24146 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
24147 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
24148 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
24149 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
24150 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
24153 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
24154 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24156 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
24157 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
24158 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
24159 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
24160 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
24161 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
24162 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24163 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
24164 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
24165 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
24166 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
24167 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
24168 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
24169 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
24170 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
24174 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
24175 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
24176 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
24177 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
24178 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
24179 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
24180 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
24181 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
24182 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
24183 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
24184 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
24185 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
24186 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
24187 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
24188 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
24189 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
24190 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
24191 list. It has been gone for many months.
24192 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
24193 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
24194 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
24197 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
24198 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
24199 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
24202 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
24203 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
24204 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
24205 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
24206 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
24207 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
24208 variety of other issues.
24211 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
24212 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
24213 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
24214 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
24215 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
24216 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
24217 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
24218 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
24219 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
24220 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
24221 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
24222 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
24223 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
24224 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
24227 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
24228 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
24229 Suggested by Lucky Green.
24230 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
24231 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
24232 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
24233 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
24234 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
24235 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
24237 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
24238 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
24240 o Hidden service performance improvements:
24241 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
24242 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
24243 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
24244 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
24245 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
24246 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
24247 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
24248 faster after restart.
24251 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
24252 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
24253 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
24254 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
24255 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
24256 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
24257 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
24258 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
24259 840. Patch from rovv.
24260 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
24261 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
24262 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
24263 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
24264 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
24265 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
24266 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
24267 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
24268 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
24270 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
24271 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
24272 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
24273 have already been marked for close.
24274 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
24275 introduction points.
24276 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
24277 memory performance during directory parsing.
24278 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
24279 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
24280 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
24281 because of a pending download.
24284 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
24285 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
24286 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
24287 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
24290 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
24291 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
24292 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
24293 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
24294 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
24295 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
24296 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
24297 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
24298 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
24299 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
24300 lookups more reliable.
24301 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
24302 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
24303 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
24304 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
24305 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
24306 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
24307 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
24310 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
24311 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
24312 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24313 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
24314 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
24315 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
24316 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
24317 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
24318 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
24319 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
24320 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
24322 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
24323 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
24324 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
24325 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
24326 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
24327 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24328 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
24329 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
24330 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24333 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
24334 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
24335 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
24336 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
24337 locked down these days.
24338 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
24339 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
24340 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
24341 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
24342 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
24344 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
24345 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
24346 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
24347 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
24348 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
24349 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
24350 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
24351 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
24352 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
24353 people find host:port too confusing.
24354 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
24355 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
24356 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
24359 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24361 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
24362 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
24363 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
24364 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
24365 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
24367 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
24368 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
24369 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
24370 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
24371 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
24372 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
24373 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
24374 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
24375 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
24376 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
24377 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
24378 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
24380 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
24381 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
24382 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
24383 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
24384 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
24385 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
24386 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
24387 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
24388 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
24390 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
24391 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
24392 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
24393 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
24394 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
24395 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
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.
24401 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
24402 list. It has been gone for many months.
24404 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24405 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
24406 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
24407 actual mistakes we're making here.
24408 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
24409 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
24410 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
24411 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
24414 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
24415 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
24416 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
24417 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
24420 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
24421 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
24422 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
24423 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
24424 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
24425 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
24427 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
24428 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
24429 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
24430 pointed out by rovv.
24433 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
24434 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24435 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
24436 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24437 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
24438 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
24439 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
24440 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
24441 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
24442 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24443 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
24444 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
24445 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
24446 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24447 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
24448 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
24449 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
24450 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
24451 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
24452 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
24453 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
24456 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
24457 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
24458 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
24459 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
24460 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
24461 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
24462 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
24465 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
24467 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
24468 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
24469 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
24470 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
24471 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
24472 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
24473 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
24475 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
24476 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
24477 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
24478 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
24479 known descriptor before building circuits.
24481 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
24482 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
24483 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
24484 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
24485 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
24486 identify a connection.
24487 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
24488 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
24489 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
24491 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
24492 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
24493 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
24494 pointed out by rovv.
24497 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
24498 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24499 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
24500 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
24501 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
24502 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24503 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
24504 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24505 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
24506 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
24507 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
24508 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
24509 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
24510 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
24511 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24514 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
24515 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
24516 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
24517 answer sections match.
24518 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
24519 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
24522 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
24523 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
24526 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
24527 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
24528 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
24530 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
24531 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
24532 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
24535 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
24536 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
24537 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
24538 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
24541 o Removed features:
24542 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
24543 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
24546 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
24547 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
24548 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
24549 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
24550 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
24551 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
24553 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
24554 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
24555 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
24558 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
24559 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
24560 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
24561 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
24562 be sent using an "early" cell.
24565 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
24566 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
24567 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
24568 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
24569 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
24570 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
24571 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
24574 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
24575 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
24576 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
24577 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
24578 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
24579 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
24580 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
24581 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
24582 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
24583 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
24584 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
24585 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
24586 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
24587 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
24588 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
24589 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
24592 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
24593 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
24594 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
24595 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
24596 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
24597 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
24598 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
24599 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
24600 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
24602 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
24603 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
24604 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
24605 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
24606 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
24609 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
24610 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
24611 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
24612 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
24614 o Removed features:
24615 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
24616 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
24620 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
24622 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
24623 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
24624 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
24627 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
24628 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
24629 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
24632 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
24633 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
24634 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
24635 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
24636 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24637 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
24638 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
24639 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
24640 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24641 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
24642 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
24643 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
24644 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
24645 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
24646 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
24647 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
24648 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
24649 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
24650 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
24651 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
24652 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
24653 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
24654 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
24657 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
24658 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
24660 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
24661 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
24662 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
24663 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
24664 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
24665 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
24666 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
24668 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
24669 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
24670 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
24671 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
24672 found by Geoff Goodell.
24675 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
24676 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
24677 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
24678 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
24679 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
24680 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
24683 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
24684 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
24685 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
24688 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
24689 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
24690 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
24691 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
24692 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24693 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
24694 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
24695 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
24696 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24697 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
24698 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
24699 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
24700 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
24701 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
24704 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
24705 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
24706 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
24708 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
24709 fingerprints with or without space.
24710 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
24711 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
24712 partway through and wants to catch up.
24713 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
24714 state to start out in.
24717 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
24718 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
24719 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
24720 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
24721 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
24724 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
24725 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
24726 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
24727 some of the connection attempts fail.
24728 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
24729 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
24730 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
24731 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
24732 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
24733 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
24735 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
24736 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
24737 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
24740 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
24741 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
24742 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
24743 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
24744 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
24745 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
24746 and adds a variety of smaller features.
24749 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
24750 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
24751 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
24752 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
24754 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
24755 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
24756 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
24757 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
24759 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
24760 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
24761 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
24762 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
24763 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
24764 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
24765 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
24768 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
24769 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
24770 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
24771 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
24772 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
24774 o Memory fixes and improvements:
24775 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
24776 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
24777 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
24778 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
24779 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
24780 on a typical directory cache.
24781 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
24782 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
24783 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
24784 and may reduce fragmentation.
24785 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
24786 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
24787 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
24789 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
24790 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
24791 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
24793 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
24794 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
24798 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
24799 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
24800 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
24801 done that for a long time.
24802 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
24803 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
24804 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
24805 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
24808 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
24809 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
24810 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
24811 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
24812 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
24813 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
24815 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
24816 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
24817 output to messages of warning and error severity.
24818 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
24819 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
24820 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
24821 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
24822 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
24823 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
24824 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
24825 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
24826 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
24827 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
24828 directory requests we should expect to see.
24829 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
24831 - Lots of new unit tests.
24832 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
24833 two parallel lists in lockstep.
24836 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
24837 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
24838 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
24841 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
24842 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
24843 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
24844 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
24845 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
24846 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
24847 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
24850 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
24851 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
24852 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
24856 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
24857 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
24858 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
24861 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
24862 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
24863 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
24865 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
24866 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
24868 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
24869 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
24870 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
24871 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
24872 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24873 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
24874 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
24876 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
24877 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
24878 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
24879 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
24880 - Fix compile on Windows.
24883 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
24884 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
24885 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
24886 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
24887 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
24888 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
24889 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
24892 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
24893 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
24896 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
24897 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
24898 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
24899 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
24901 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
24902 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
24903 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
24906 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
24907 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
24908 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
24909 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
24913 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
24914 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
24915 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
24916 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
24918 o Major security fixes:
24919 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
24920 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
24921 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
24922 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
24923 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
24926 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
24927 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24930 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
24931 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
24934 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
24935 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
24938 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
24939 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
24940 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
24943 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
24944 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24947 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
24948 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
24949 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
24950 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
24951 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
24953 o New directory authorities:
24954 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
24955 it has been down for months.
24956 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
24960 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
24961 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
24963 o Minor features (security):
24964 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
24965 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
24966 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
24969 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
24970 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
24971 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
24972 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
24973 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
24974 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
24975 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
24976 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
24977 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24979 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
24980 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
24981 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24982 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
24983 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
24984 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
24985 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24986 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
24987 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
24989 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
24990 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
24991 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
24992 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
24993 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
24994 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
24995 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
24996 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
24997 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
24998 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
24999 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25000 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
25001 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
25002 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
25003 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
25004 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
25005 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
25006 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
25007 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
25010 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
25011 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
25012 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
25013 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
25016 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
25017 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
25018 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
25019 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
25022 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
25023 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
25024 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
25025 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
25026 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
25029 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
25030 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
25031 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
25032 certain censored countries by default again.
25035 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
25036 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25037 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
25038 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
25039 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25040 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
25041 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
25042 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
25044 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
25045 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
25046 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
25047 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
25048 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
25049 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
25050 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
25051 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
25052 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
25053 a directory. Fix from lodger.
25055 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
25056 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
25057 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
25058 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
25059 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
25060 RelayBandwidth* values.
25061 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
25062 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
25063 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
25064 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
25065 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
25066 get_interface_address6().
25067 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
25068 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
25069 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
25071 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
25072 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
25073 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
25074 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25075 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
25076 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
25077 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
25078 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
25079 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
25080 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25083 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
25084 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
25085 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
25088 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
25089 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
25090 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
25091 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
25092 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
25095 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
25096 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
25097 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
25098 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
25099 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
25100 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
25101 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
25102 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
25103 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
25106 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
25107 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
25108 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
25109 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25112 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
25113 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
25114 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
25115 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
25116 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
25117 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
25118 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
25121 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
25122 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
25123 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
25124 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
25125 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
25126 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
25127 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
25129 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
25130 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
25131 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
25132 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
25133 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
25136 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
25137 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
25138 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
25139 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
25140 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
25141 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
25142 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25143 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
25144 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
25145 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
25146 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
25147 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
25148 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
25149 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
25150 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
25151 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25152 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
25153 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25154 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25155 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
25156 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
25157 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
25158 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
25159 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
25160 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
25161 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
25163 o Minor features (performance):
25164 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
25166 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
25167 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
25168 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
25169 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
25170 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
25171 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
25172 non-system include paths.
25173 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
25174 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
25177 o Minor features (other):
25178 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
25180 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
25181 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
25182 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
25185 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
25186 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
25187 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
25188 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
25190 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
25191 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
25192 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
25193 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
25194 Should fix bug 537.
25195 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
25196 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
25197 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25198 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
25199 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25201 o Minor bugfixes (other):
25202 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
25203 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
25204 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
25205 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
25206 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
25207 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
25208 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
25209 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
25210 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
25211 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
25212 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
25213 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
25214 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
25215 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
25216 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25217 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
25218 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
25219 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
25220 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
25221 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
25222 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
25223 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
25224 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
25225 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
25228 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25229 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
25230 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
25234 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
25235 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
25236 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
25237 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
25238 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
25241 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
25242 Tor's x509 certificates.
25245 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
25246 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
25247 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25248 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
25249 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
25250 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25252 o Minor features (security):
25253 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
25254 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
25256 o Minor features (directory authority):
25257 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
25258 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
25259 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
25260 bandwidthburst values.
25262 o Minor features (controller):
25263 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
25264 processes from running us out of memory.
25266 o Minor features (misc):
25267 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
25268 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
25269 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
25270 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
25272 o Deprecated features (controller):
25273 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
25274 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
25275 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
25278 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
25279 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
25281 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
25282 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
25283 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25284 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
25285 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
25286 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25287 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
25288 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
25290 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
25291 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25292 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
25293 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25294 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
25295 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
25296 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
25297 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
25299 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
25300 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
25301 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
25302 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
25303 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25304 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
25305 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25306 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
25307 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25308 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
25309 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
25310 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25312 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25313 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
25315 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
25316 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
25317 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
25318 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
25319 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
25320 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
25323 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
25324 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
25325 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
25326 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
25327 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
25329 o New directory authorities:
25330 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
25334 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
25335 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
25336 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
25337 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
25338 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
25339 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
25340 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
25341 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
25345 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
25346 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
25347 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
25348 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
25349 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
25350 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
25351 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
25352 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
25353 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
25354 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
25357 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
25358 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
25359 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
25360 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
25364 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
25365 the request isn't encrypted.
25366 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
25367 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
25368 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
25369 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
25370 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
25373 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
25374 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
25377 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
25380 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
25381 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
25382 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
25384 o New directory authorities:
25385 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
25388 o Major performance improvements:
25389 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
25390 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
25391 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
25392 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
25393 memory fragmentation.
25396 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
25397 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
25398 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
25399 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
25400 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
25401 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
25402 bodies when they receive them.
25403 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
25404 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
25405 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
25407 o Minor performance improvements:
25408 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
25409 of them were actually distinct.
25410 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
25411 interested in a given message.
25414 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
25415 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
25416 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
25417 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
25418 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
25419 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
25420 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
25421 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
25422 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
25423 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
25424 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
25426 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
25427 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
25428 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
25429 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
25430 this country" and "1 person from this country".
25431 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
25432 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
25433 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
25434 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
25435 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
25437 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
25438 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
25439 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
25441 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
25442 but client versions are not.
25443 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
25444 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
25446 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
25447 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
25448 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
25449 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
25450 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
25452 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
25453 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
25454 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
25457 o Minor features (controller):
25458 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
25459 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
25460 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
25461 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
25463 o Minor features (directory authorities):
25464 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
25465 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
25466 running a test network on a single host.
25467 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
25468 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
25470 o Minor features (bridges):
25471 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
25472 unencrypted connections.
25474 o Minor features (other):
25475 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
25476 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
25477 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
25478 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
25481 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
25482 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
25483 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
25484 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
25487 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
25488 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
25489 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
25490 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
25491 on network address.
25494 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
25495 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
25496 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
25497 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
25498 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
25499 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
25500 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
25501 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
25502 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
25503 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
25504 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
25505 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
25508 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
25509 rebuild our server descriptor.
25510 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
25511 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
25512 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
25513 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
25514 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
25515 nonstandard integer types.
25516 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
25517 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
25518 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
25519 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
25520 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
25522 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
25523 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
25524 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
25525 when they receive them.
25526 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
25527 This includes some 64-bit systems.
25528 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
25529 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
25530 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
25531 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
25532 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
25533 router_get_by_hexdigest().
25534 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
25535 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
25539 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
25540 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
25541 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
25544 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
25545 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
25546 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
25547 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
25548 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
25549 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
25550 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
25551 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25554 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
25555 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
25556 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
25557 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
25559 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
25560 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
25563 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
25564 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
25567 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
25569 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
25570 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
25572 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
25573 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
25574 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
25575 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25576 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
25577 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
25578 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
25579 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
25580 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
25581 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
25585 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
25586 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
25587 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
25590 - Make the unit tests build again.
25591 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
25592 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
25593 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
25594 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
25595 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
25596 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25597 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
25598 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
25599 the next one as a duplicate.
25602 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
25603 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
25604 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
25605 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
25608 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
25609 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
25610 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
25613 o New directory authorities:
25614 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
25618 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
25619 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
25620 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
25621 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
25622 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
25623 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
25624 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
25626 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
25627 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
25629 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
25630 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
25631 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
25632 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
25633 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
25634 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
25636 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
25637 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
25638 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
25639 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
25640 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
25641 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25644 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
25645 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
25646 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
25647 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
25648 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
25649 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
25650 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
25651 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
25652 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
25653 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
25654 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
25655 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
25656 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
25657 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
25658 where Tor is blocked.
25659 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
25660 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
25661 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
25662 to a file periodically.
25663 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
25664 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
25665 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
25669 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
25670 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
25671 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
25672 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
25673 in the relevant networkstatus document.
25674 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
25675 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
25676 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
25677 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
25678 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
25679 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
25680 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
25681 by Karsten Loesing.
25682 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
25683 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
25684 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
25685 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
25686 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
25687 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25688 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
25689 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
25690 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
25691 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25692 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
25693 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
25694 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
25695 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25696 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
25697 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
25698 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
25699 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
25700 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
25701 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25702 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25703 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
25704 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25705 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
25706 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
25707 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
25708 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
25709 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25712 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
25713 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
25714 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
25715 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
25716 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
25717 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
25718 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
25719 even if your DirPort isn't on.
25720 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
25721 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
25722 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
25724 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
25725 multiple controller passwords.
25726 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
25727 router based on the router's purpose.
25728 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
25729 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
25730 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
25731 the approved-routers file.
25734 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
25735 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
25736 well as a few minor bugs.
25739 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
25740 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
25741 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
25743 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
25744 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
25745 rebuild our server descriptor.
25747 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
25748 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
25749 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
25750 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
25751 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
25752 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
25753 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
25754 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
25755 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
25756 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
25758 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
25759 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
25760 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
25761 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
25762 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
25763 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
25764 then be flexible about families.
25767 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
25768 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
25769 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
25773 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
25774 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
25775 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
25776 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
25777 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
25780 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
25781 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
25782 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
25783 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
25784 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25787 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
25788 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
25790 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
25791 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
25792 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
25793 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
25794 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
25795 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
25796 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
25798 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
25799 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
25800 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
25801 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
25804 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
25805 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
25808 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
25809 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
25810 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25813 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
25814 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
25815 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
25816 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
25817 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
25818 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
25819 addresses many more minor issues.
25821 o New directory authorities:
25822 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
25825 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
25826 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
25827 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
25828 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
25830 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
25831 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
25832 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
25833 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
25834 and are reaching it.
25835 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
25836 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
25837 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
25838 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
25839 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
25840 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
25843 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
25844 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
25846 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
25847 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
25848 no longer work for clients.
25849 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
25850 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
25852 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
25853 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
25854 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
25855 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
25856 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
25857 enough directory information to build a circuit.
25858 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
25859 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
25860 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
25861 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
25862 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
25863 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
25865 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
25866 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
25867 requests for all of them.
25868 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
25870 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
25871 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
25872 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
25874 o New requirements:
25875 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
25876 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
25880 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
25881 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
25882 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
25883 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
25884 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
25885 networkstatuses that we already have.
25886 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
25887 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
25888 we start knowing some directory caches.
25889 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
25890 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
25891 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
25892 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
25893 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
25894 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
25895 Good in combination with --hash-password.
25896 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
25897 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
25899 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
25900 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
25901 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
25903 o Minor features (bridges):
25904 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
25905 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
25906 back to trying the bridge directly.
25907 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
25908 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
25910 o Minor features (controller):
25911 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
25912 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
25913 report the value as a "minimum skew."
25916 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
25917 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
25921 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
25922 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
25923 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
25924 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
25925 reported by tup and ioerror.
25926 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
25927 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
25929 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
25930 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
25932 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
25933 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
25934 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
25936 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
25937 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25938 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
25939 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25940 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
25941 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25942 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
25944 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
25945 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
25946 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25948 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
25949 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
25950 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
25951 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
25952 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
25955 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
25956 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
25957 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
25958 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
25959 lists for a few hours each day.
25961 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25962 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
25963 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
25964 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
25965 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
25966 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
25967 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
25968 rend_process_relay_cell().
25970 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25971 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
25972 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
25973 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
25974 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
25975 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
25976 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
25977 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
25979 o Major bugfixes (other):
25980 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
25981 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
25982 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
25983 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
25984 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
25985 circuit cannibalization).
25986 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
25987 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
25988 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
25989 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
25990 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
25991 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
25994 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
25995 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
25997 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
25998 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
25999 absent. Resolves bug 467.
26000 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
26001 a way to trigger this remotely.)
26002 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
26003 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
26004 were reporting the dir port.)
26005 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
26006 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
26007 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
26008 the future. Fixes bug 434.
26009 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
26011 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
26012 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
26013 the onion key from getting rotated.
26014 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
26015 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
26016 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
26017 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
26018 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
26019 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
26020 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
26021 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
26022 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
26025 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
26026 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
26027 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
26028 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
26029 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
26030 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
26032 o Major features (directory system):
26033 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
26034 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
26035 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
26036 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
26037 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
26038 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
26039 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
26040 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
26041 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
26042 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
26043 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
26044 Partially implements proposal 122.
26045 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
26046 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
26049 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
26050 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
26051 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
26052 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
26054 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
26055 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
26056 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
26057 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
26058 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
26059 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26060 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
26061 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
26062 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26064 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
26065 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
26067 - Allow certificates to include an address.
26068 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
26069 and download operations.
26070 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
26071 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
26072 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
26073 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
26074 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
26075 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
26077 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
26078 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
26081 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
26082 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
26083 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
26084 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
26086 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
26087 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
26088 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
26090 o Minor features (performance):
26091 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
26092 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
26093 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
26094 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
26095 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
26096 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
26097 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
26100 o Minor features (compilation):
26101 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
26102 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
26104 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
26105 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
26106 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
26107 stick around indefinitely.
26108 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
26110 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
26111 v3 directory authority.
26112 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
26113 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
26115 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
26116 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
26117 "moria on moria:9031."
26118 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
26119 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
26120 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
26121 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
26122 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
26123 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
26124 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
26125 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
26127 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
26128 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
26129 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
26130 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
26131 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
26132 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
26133 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
26134 downloads than for other types.
26136 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
26137 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
26139 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
26140 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
26141 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26143 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
26144 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
26145 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26146 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
26147 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
26148 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
26149 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
26150 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
26152 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26153 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
26154 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
26155 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
26156 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
26157 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
26158 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
26159 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26160 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
26161 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
26162 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
26164 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
26165 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
26168 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26169 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
26170 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
26171 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
26172 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
26173 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
26174 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
26175 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
26176 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
26177 so that they all take the same named flags.
26180 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
26181 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
26182 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
26185 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
26186 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
26187 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
26188 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
26189 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
26190 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
26192 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
26193 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
26194 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
26195 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
26196 annotations along with descriptors.
26197 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
26198 source, and its purpose.
26199 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
26201 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
26202 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
26203 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
26204 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
26207 o Major features (directory authorities):
26208 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
26210 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
26211 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
26212 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
26213 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
26214 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
26215 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
26217 o Major features (v3 directory system):
26218 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
26219 and download the descriptors listed in them.
26220 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
26221 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
26222 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
26224 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26225 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
26226 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
26227 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
26230 o Major bugfixes (performance):
26231 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
26232 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
26233 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
26234 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
26236 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
26237 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
26238 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
26239 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
26240 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
26241 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
26243 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
26244 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
26246 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
26247 certificate is requested.
26248 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
26249 certificate requests.
26251 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
26252 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
26253 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
26254 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
26257 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
26258 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
26259 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
26260 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26262 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
26263 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
26265 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
26266 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
26267 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
26268 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
26269 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
26270 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
26271 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
26272 downloads more sensible.
26273 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
26274 another when serving certificates.
26276 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
26277 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
26278 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
26279 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
26281 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
26282 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
26283 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
26285 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
26286 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
26288 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
26289 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
26290 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
26291 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
26292 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
26294 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
26295 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
26296 WARN-severity events.
26297 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
26298 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
26299 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
26301 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
26302 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
26303 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
26305 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
26306 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
26307 circuit cannibalization).
26309 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26310 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
26311 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
26312 new module, networkstatus.c.
26313 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
26314 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
26315 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
26316 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
26317 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
26318 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
26319 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
26320 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
26321 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
26323 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
26325 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
26326 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
26329 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
26330 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
26331 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
26332 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
26334 o New directory authorities:
26335 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
26336 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
26338 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26339 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
26340 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26342 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
26343 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
26344 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
26345 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
26346 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
26347 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
26348 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
26349 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
26350 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
26351 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
26352 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26354 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
26355 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
26356 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
26357 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
26358 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
26359 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
26360 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
26361 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
26362 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
26364 o Minor features (security):
26365 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
26366 address maps to an internal address space.
26367 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
26368 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
26370 o Minor features (guard nodes):
26371 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
26372 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
26373 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
26374 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
26376 o Minor features (speed):
26377 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
26378 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
26379 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
26380 on big-endian hosts.)
26382 o Minor features (controller):
26383 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
26384 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
26385 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
26386 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
26389 o Removed features:
26390 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
26391 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
26392 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
26393 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
26394 implementation of proposal 104.
26395 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
26396 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
26397 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
26398 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
26399 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
26400 patch from Karsten Loesing.
26401 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
26402 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
26405 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
26406 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
26407 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26408 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
26409 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26410 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
26411 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26412 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
26413 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
26414 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26415 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
26416 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
26417 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
26418 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26419 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
26420 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
26421 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
26422 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26423 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
26424 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
26426 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26427 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
26428 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
26430 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
26431 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
26432 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
26433 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
26436 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
26437 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
26438 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
26439 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
26440 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
26443 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
26444 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
26447 o Major bugfixes (security):
26448 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
26449 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
26450 become more of a headache than it's worth.
26452 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
26453 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
26454 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
26456 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
26457 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
26458 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
26459 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
26460 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
26461 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
26463 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
26464 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
26465 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
26466 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
26467 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
26469 o Minor features (controller):
26470 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
26471 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
26472 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
26473 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
26475 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
26476 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
26477 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
26478 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
26479 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
26480 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
26481 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
26482 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
26484 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26485 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
26486 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
26487 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
26488 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
26489 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
26490 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
26491 if we ran off the end of the list.
26492 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
26493 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
26494 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
26495 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
26496 every time we change any piece of our config.
26497 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
26498 encourage people using them to stop.
26499 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
26501 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
26502 servers to choose a circuit.
26503 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
26504 unparseable piece of it.
26507 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
26508 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
26509 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
26510 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
26513 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
26514 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
26515 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
26516 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
26517 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
26519 o New directory authorities:
26520 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
26523 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
26524 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
26525 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
26526 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
26528 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
26529 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
26530 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
26532 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
26533 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
26534 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
26535 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
26536 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
26537 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
26539 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
26540 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
26541 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26544 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
26545 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
26546 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
26547 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
26551 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
26552 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
26553 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
26554 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
26556 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
26557 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
26559 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
26560 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
26561 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
26562 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
26563 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
26564 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
26565 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26566 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
26567 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26568 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
26571 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
26572 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
26573 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
26574 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
26575 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
26576 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
26578 o Removed features:
26579 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
26580 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
26581 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
26582 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
26585 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
26586 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
26587 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
26588 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
26589 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
26592 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
26593 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
26594 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
26595 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
26596 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
26597 reported by lodger.
26599 o Minor features (directory servers):
26600 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
26601 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
26603 o Minor features (directory voting):
26604 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
26607 o Minor features (security):
26608 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
26609 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
26610 encourage people using them to stop.
26612 o Minor features (controller):
26613 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
26614 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
26615 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
26616 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
26617 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
26618 cookie authentication file, and config option
26619 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
26621 o Minor features (unit testing):
26622 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
26623 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
26624 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
26625 logging for the unit tests.
26627 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
26628 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
26629 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
26630 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
26631 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
26632 every time we change any piece of our config.
26633 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
26634 the future. Fixes bug 434.
26635 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
26637 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
26638 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
26639 the onion key from getting rotated.
26640 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
26641 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
26642 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
26645 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
26646 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
26647 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
26649 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
26650 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
26651 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
26652 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
26655 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
26656 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
26657 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
26658 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
26659 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
26660 TorK, etc. Or worse.
26662 o Major security fixes:
26663 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
26664 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
26667 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
26668 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
26669 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
26670 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
26672 o Major security fixes:
26673 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
26674 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
26676 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
26677 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
26680 o Minor features (performance):
26681 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
26682 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
26683 performance-intensive.
26684 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
26685 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
26686 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
26687 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
26688 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
26689 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
26693 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
26694 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
26695 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
26696 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
26700 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
26701 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
26702 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
26703 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
26704 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
26706 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
26707 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
26708 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
26709 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
26711 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
26712 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
26713 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
26714 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
26715 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
26717 o Major features (experimental):
26718 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
26719 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
26720 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
26721 handling before it's ready for use.
26724 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
26725 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
26726 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
26727 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
26728 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
26729 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
26731 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
26732 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
26733 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
26734 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
26735 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
26737 o Major bugfixes (directory):
26738 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
26739 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
26741 o Minor features (controller):
26742 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
26743 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
26744 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
26745 from Robert Hogan.)
26746 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
26747 from Robert Hogan.)
26748 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
26749 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
26751 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
26752 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
26753 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
26754 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
26755 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
26756 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
26757 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
26760 o Minor features (misc):
26761 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
26763 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
26764 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
26765 the authority identity key.
26766 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
26768 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
26769 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
26770 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
26773 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
26774 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
26775 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
26776 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
26777 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
26778 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
26779 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
26780 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
26782 o Performance improvements:
26783 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
26785 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
26786 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
26789 o Deprecated and removed features:
26790 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
26791 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
26792 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
26793 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
26795 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
26796 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
26797 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
26798 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
26799 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
26800 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
26801 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
26802 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
26803 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
26806 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
26807 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
26808 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
26809 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
26810 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
26812 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
26813 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
26816 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
26817 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
26818 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
26819 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
26820 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
26821 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
26822 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
26823 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
26824 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
26827 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
26828 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
26829 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
26830 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
26832 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
26833 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
26835 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26836 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
26837 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
26838 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
26839 routerlist while inserting a new router.
26840 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
26841 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
26843 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
26844 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
26845 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
26847 o Major bugfixes (security):
26848 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
26850 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
26851 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
26852 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
26853 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
26854 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
26855 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
26856 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
26857 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
26858 guard list unless we need to.
26860 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
26861 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
26862 don't get overused as guards.
26864 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
26865 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
26866 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
26867 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
26868 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
26870 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
26871 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
26872 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
26875 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26876 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
26877 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
26878 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
26879 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
26880 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
26881 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
26882 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
26885 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
26886 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
26887 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
26888 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
26890 o Minor features (directory):
26891 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
26892 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
26893 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
26894 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
26896 o Minor build issues:
26897 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
26898 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
26899 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
26900 in the tarball, not as "x".
26903 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
26904 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
26905 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
26906 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
26907 forward on a lot of fronts.
26909 o Major features, server usability:
26910 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
26911 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
26912 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
26913 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
26915 o Major features, client usability:
26916 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
26917 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
26918 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
26919 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
26920 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
26921 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
26922 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
26923 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
26925 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
26926 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
26927 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
26928 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
26929 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
26930 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
26932 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
26933 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
26934 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
26936 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
26937 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
26938 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
26939 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
26940 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
26942 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
26943 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
26944 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
26945 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
26947 o Major features, other:
26948 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
26949 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
26950 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
26951 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
26952 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
26955 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
26956 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
26957 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
26960 o Minor fixes (resource management):
26961 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
26962 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
26963 our allocated connection limit.
26964 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
26965 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
26966 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
26967 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
26968 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
26970 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
26971 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
26972 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
26974 o Minor features (build):
26975 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
26976 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
26977 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
26978 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
26980 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
26981 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
26982 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
26983 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
26984 Use this version consistently in log messages.
26986 o Minor features (logging):
26987 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
26988 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
26989 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
26990 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
26991 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
26994 o Minor features (directory system):
26995 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
26996 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
26997 not to serve V2 directory information.
26998 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
26999 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
27000 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
27002 o Minor features (controller):
27003 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
27004 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
27006 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
27007 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
27008 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
27009 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
27010 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
27011 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
27013 o Minor features (hidden services):
27014 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
27015 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
27016 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
27017 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
27019 o Minor features (other):
27021 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
27022 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
27023 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
27024 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
27025 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
27026 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
27027 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
27028 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
27029 longer a completely silly thing to do.
27030 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
27031 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
27032 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
27033 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
27035 o Removed features:
27036 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
27037 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
27038 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
27039 back an error and close the connection.
27040 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
27041 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
27044 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
27045 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
27046 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
27047 makes the log messages nicer.
27048 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
27049 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
27050 partial results on small file reads.
27052 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
27053 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
27054 more often than they are allowed to appear.
27055 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
27056 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
27058 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
27059 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
27060 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
27061 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
27063 o Minor bugfixes (other):
27064 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
27065 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
27066 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
27067 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
27068 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
27069 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
27070 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
27071 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
27072 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
27073 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
27075 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
27076 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
27077 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
27079 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
27080 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
27081 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
27082 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
27084 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
27085 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
27086 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
27088 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
27089 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
27092 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27093 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
27094 implicit in other procedure arguments.
27095 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
27096 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
27097 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
27098 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
27099 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
27100 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
27101 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
27102 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
27103 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
27106 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
27107 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
27108 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
27109 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
27111 o Directory authority changes:
27112 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
27113 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
27114 or use hidden services.
27116 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
27117 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
27118 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
27119 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
27120 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
27121 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
27122 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
27123 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
27124 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
27127 o Major bugfixes (security):
27128 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
27129 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
27130 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
27132 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
27133 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
27134 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
27135 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
27136 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
27137 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
27138 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
27139 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
27140 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
27141 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
27144 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
27145 purpose=controller.
27146 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
27147 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
27149 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
27150 having a hard time downloading.
27151 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
27152 partial results on small file reads.
27153 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
27154 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
27155 the gaps in the store get very large.
27158 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
27159 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
27161 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
27162 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
27165 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
27166 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
27167 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
27168 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
27169 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
27170 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
27172 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
27173 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
27174 free speech on the Internet.
27177 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
27178 get one we don't recognize.
27179 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
27180 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
27183 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
27185 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
27186 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
27187 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
27188 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
27191 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
27192 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
27195 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
27196 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
27197 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
27198 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
27199 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
27200 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
27201 ask for GUARDS too.
27204 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
27205 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
27206 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
27207 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
27208 on Win98 and friends again.
27210 o Minor bugfixes (other):
27211 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
27212 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
27215 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
27216 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
27217 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
27218 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
27219 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
27220 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
27221 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
27222 and maybe also bug 397.)
27224 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
27225 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
27226 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
27228 o Minor bugfixes (server):
27229 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
27232 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
27233 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
27234 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
27235 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
27236 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
27238 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
27239 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
27240 load on authorities.
27242 o Minor bugfixes (other):
27243 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
27244 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
27245 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
27247 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
27249 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
27250 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
27251 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
27252 the last of bug 326.)
27253 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
27254 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
27258 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
27259 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
27260 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
27261 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
27262 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
27263 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
27264 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
27266 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
27267 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
27269 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
27270 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
27271 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
27273 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
27274 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
27275 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
27277 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
27278 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
27279 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
27280 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
27282 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
27283 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
27285 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
27286 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
27287 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
27290 o Minor bugfixes (other):
27291 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
27292 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
27293 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
27294 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
27295 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
27296 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
27297 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
27298 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
27299 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
27300 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
27301 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
27302 other than file-not-found.
27303 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
27304 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
27305 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
27306 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
27307 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
27308 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
27309 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
27310 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
27311 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
27312 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
27313 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
27314 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
27315 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
27316 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
27317 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
27319 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
27321 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
27322 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
27324 o Minor features (controller):
27325 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
27326 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
27327 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
27329 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
27330 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
27331 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
27332 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
27333 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
27334 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
27335 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
27336 connected or resolved cell.
27338 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
27339 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
27340 some profiles, but not others.)
27341 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
27342 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
27343 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
27346 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
27348 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
27349 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
27350 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
27351 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
27352 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
27353 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
27354 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
27355 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
27356 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
27357 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
27358 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
27359 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
27360 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
27361 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
27362 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
27364 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
27367 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
27368 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
27369 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
27370 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
27371 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
27372 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
27373 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
27375 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
27376 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
27377 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
27378 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
27379 buckets go absurdly negative.
27380 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
27381 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
27384 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
27385 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
27386 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
27387 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
27388 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
27389 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
27390 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
27391 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
27394 o Major bugfixes (other):
27395 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
27396 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
27397 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
27398 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
27400 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
27402 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
27403 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
27405 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
27406 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
27407 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
27408 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
27409 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
27410 to wait for 0.2.0.)
27412 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
27413 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
27414 possible memory-stomping bugs.
27415 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
27416 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
27418 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
27419 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
27420 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
27421 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
27422 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
27423 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
27425 o Minor bugfixes (other):
27426 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
27427 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
27428 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
27430 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
27431 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
27432 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
27433 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
27434 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
27435 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
27436 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
27437 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
27438 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
27439 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
27440 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
27441 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
27442 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
27444 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
27445 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
27446 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
27447 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
27448 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
27449 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
27450 to the resulting address.
27453 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
27454 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
27455 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
27456 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
27459 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
27460 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
27462 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
27463 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
27464 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
27465 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
27466 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
27467 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
27468 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
27469 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
27470 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
27471 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
27472 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
27473 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
27474 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
27475 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
27476 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
27477 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
27478 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
27481 o Minor features (controller):
27482 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
27483 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
27484 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
27485 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
27486 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
27487 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
27488 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
27492 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
27494 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
27495 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
27496 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
27497 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
27498 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
27499 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
27502 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
27503 weren't planning to resolve.
27504 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
27505 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
27506 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
27507 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
27508 the controller from learning about current events.
27510 o Minor features (more controller status events):
27511 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
27512 learn when our address changes.
27513 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
27514 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
27515 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
27516 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
27518 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
27519 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
27520 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
27521 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
27522 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
27523 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
27524 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
27525 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
27526 are accepted by a directory.
27527 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
27528 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
27529 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
27530 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
27531 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
27533 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
27534 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
27535 about changes to DNS server status.
27537 o Minor features (directory):
27538 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
27539 too much load to the exit nodes.
27542 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
27544 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
27545 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
27546 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
27547 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
27548 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
27550 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
27551 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
27552 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
27554 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
27555 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
27556 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
27557 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
27558 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
27559 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
27560 config options if you like.
27562 o Minor features (config and docs):
27563 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
27564 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
27565 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
27566 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
27567 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
27569 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
27570 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
27571 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
27572 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
27573 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
27575 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
27576 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
27577 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
27578 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
27579 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
27580 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
27581 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
27582 documentation: "make check-docs".
27583 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
27584 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
27586 o Minor features (DNS):
27587 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
27588 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
27589 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
27590 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
27591 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
27592 our tests for DNS hijacking.
27594 o Minor features (directory):
27595 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
27596 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
27597 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
27598 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
27599 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
27600 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
27601 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
27602 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
27603 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
27604 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
27605 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
27606 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
27607 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
27608 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
27609 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
27610 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
27611 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
27612 for the thing we're trying to download.
27613 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
27614 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
27615 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
27617 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
27618 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
27619 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
27622 o Minor features (controller):
27623 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
27624 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
27626 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
27627 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
27628 entry guard status as it changes.
27630 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
27631 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
27632 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
27633 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
27634 to set log options.
27635 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
27636 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
27637 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
27638 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
27641 o Major bugfixes (security):
27642 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
27643 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
27644 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
27645 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
27647 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
27648 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
27649 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
27650 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
27651 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
27653 o Major bugfixes (other):
27654 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
27655 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
27656 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
27657 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
27659 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
27660 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
27661 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
27662 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
27663 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
27664 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
27668 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
27669 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
27670 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
27671 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
27672 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
27674 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
27675 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
27677 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
27678 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
27679 family lists conveniently.
27680 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
27681 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
27682 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
27684 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
27685 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
27687 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
27688 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
27689 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
27690 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
27691 if their identity keys are as expected.
27692 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
27693 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
27694 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
27696 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
27697 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
27698 reported by Mike Perry.
27699 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
27700 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
27701 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
27702 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
27705 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
27706 o Security bugfixes:
27707 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
27708 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
27709 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
27710 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
27714 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
27715 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
27716 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
27719 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
27721 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
27722 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
27723 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
27726 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
27727 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
27728 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
27729 watching for STREAM events.
27730 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
27731 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
27732 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
27733 operations, for profiling.
27736 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
27737 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
27738 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
27739 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
27740 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
27741 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
27743 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
27747 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
27748 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
27749 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
27750 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
27751 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
27753 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
27754 correctly in the Windows installer.
27755 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
27756 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
27757 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
27758 MIPSpro C compiler.
27759 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
27760 when we're running as a client.
27763 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
27765 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
27766 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
27767 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
27768 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
27769 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
27770 its circuits on demand.
27771 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
27772 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
27773 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
27774 connections more stable on average.
27775 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
27776 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
27777 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
27779 o Security bugfixes:
27780 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
27781 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
27784 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
27786 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
27787 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
27788 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
27789 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
27790 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
27791 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
27792 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
27793 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
27796 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
27798 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
27799 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
27800 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
27801 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
27802 routers for even longer.
27803 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
27804 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
27805 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
27806 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
27807 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
27808 caching HTTP proxies.
27809 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
27812 o Minor features, controller:
27813 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
27814 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
27815 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
27816 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
27818 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
27819 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
27820 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
27821 working much like those for circuit events.
27822 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
27823 about the current status of a router.
27824 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
27825 a router's status has changed.
27826 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
27827 can tell which events and features are supported.
27828 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
27829 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
27831 o Security bugfixes:
27832 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
27833 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
27836 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
27837 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
27838 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
27839 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
27840 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
27841 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
27842 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
27843 long nicknames where appropriate.
27844 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
27845 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
27846 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
27847 chews through many circuits before giving up.
27848 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
27849 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
27850 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
27851 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
27852 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
27853 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
27855 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
27856 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
27857 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
27859 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
27860 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
27861 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
27862 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
27863 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
27864 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
27865 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
27866 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
27867 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
27868 (reported by fookoowa).
27869 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
27870 and reported by some Centos users.
27871 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
27872 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
27873 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
27874 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
27875 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
27876 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
27877 before we check for libevent.
27880 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
27882 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
27883 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
27884 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
27885 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
27886 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
27887 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
27888 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
27889 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
27890 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
27891 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
27892 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
27893 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
27894 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
27895 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
27896 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
27897 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
27898 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
27899 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
27900 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
27901 lets you turn it off.
27902 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
27903 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
27904 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
27905 us into the directory more quickly.
27907 o New/improved config options:
27908 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
27909 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
27910 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
27911 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
27912 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
27913 all the machines on the same subnet.
27914 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
27915 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
27916 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
27917 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
27918 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
27919 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
27920 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
27921 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
27922 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
27923 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
27925 o Minor features, controller:
27926 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
27927 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
27928 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
27929 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
27930 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
27931 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
27932 for more information.
27933 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
27934 best guess to the user.
27935 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
27936 descriptor has changed.
27937 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
27939 o Minor features, other:
27940 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
27941 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
27942 useful to the network.
27943 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
27944 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
27945 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
27946 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
27947 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
27948 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
27949 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
27950 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
27951 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
27952 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
27953 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
27954 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
27955 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
27956 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
27957 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
27959 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
27960 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
27961 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
27962 could return an unnamed server instead.
27963 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
27964 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
27965 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
27966 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
27967 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
27968 a more attractive target for compromise.)
27969 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
27970 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
27971 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
27973 o Major bugfixes, other:
27974 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
27975 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
27976 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
27977 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
27978 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
27979 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
27980 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
27981 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
27982 its circuits on demand.
27983 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
27984 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
27985 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
27986 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
27988 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
27989 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
27990 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
27991 we don't recognize.
27992 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
27994 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
27995 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
27996 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
27997 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
27998 "extendcircuit" request.
27999 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
28000 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
28001 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
28003 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
28004 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
28005 instead of "X resolved to X".
28006 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
28007 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
28008 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
28009 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
28010 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
28011 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
28012 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
28013 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
28014 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
28016 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
28017 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
28018 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
28019 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
28020 result more than once.
28021 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
28022 non-versioning dirservers.
28023 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
28024 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
28026 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
28027 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
28028 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
28029 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
28030 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
28031 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
28032 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
28033 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
28034 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
28036 o Packaging, features:
28037 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
28038 now universal binaries.
28039 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
28040 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
28041 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
28043 o Packaging, bugfixes:
28044 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
28045 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
28046 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
28047 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
28049 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
28050 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
28051 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
28054 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
28055 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
28056 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
28060 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
28062 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
28063 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
28064 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
28065 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
28066 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
28067 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
28068 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
28069 it can't resolve its hostname.
28072 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
28073 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
28074 "extendcircuit" request.
28075 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
28076 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
28077 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
28078 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
28080 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
28081 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
28082 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
28084 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
28085 methods: these are known to be buggy.
28086 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
28087 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
28088 we don't recognize.
28091 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
28093 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
28094 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
28095 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
28096 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
28097 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
28098 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
28099 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
28100 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
28101 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
28102 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
28103 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
28104 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
28105 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
28106 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
28107 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
28108 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
28109 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
28110 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
28111 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
28112 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
28113 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
28114 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
28115 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
28116 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
28119 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
28120 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
28121 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
28122 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
28123 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
28124 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
28125 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
28126 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
28127 recommendation system saner.)
28128 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
28130 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
28131 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
28132 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
28133 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
28134 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
28135 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
28136 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
28137 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
28138 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
28139 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
28140 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
28141 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
28142 your ORPort is set.
28143 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
28144 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
28145 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
28146 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
28147 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
28148 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
28149 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
28150 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
28151 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
28152 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
28153 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
28154 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
28156 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
28157 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
28158 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
28159 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
28160 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
28161 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
28164 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
28165 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
28166 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
28167 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
28168 our DirPort now, etc.
28169 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
28170 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
28171 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
28172 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
28173 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
28174 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
28175 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
28177 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
28178 whether the config options are bad or good.
28179 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
28180 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
28181 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
28182 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
28183 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
28184 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
28185 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
28186 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
28189 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
28190 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
28191 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
28192 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
28193 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
28194 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
28195 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
28196 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
28197 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
28198 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
28199 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
28200 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
28201 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
28202 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
28203 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
28204 of it), is not therefore "up".
28205 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
28206 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
28207 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
28208 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
28209 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
28210 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
28213 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
28215 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
28216 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
28217 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
28218 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
28219 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
28220 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
28221 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
28222 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
28223 test reachability, so you won't publish.
28226 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
28227 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
28228 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
28229 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
28230 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
28232 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
28233 own server descriptor yet.
28236 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
28238 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
28239 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
28240 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
28241 make sure to test via one of these.
28242 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
28243 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
28244 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
28245 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
28246 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
28248 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
28249 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
28250 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
28253 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
28254 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
28255 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
28256 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
28257 directory authority.
28258 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
28259 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
28260 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
28261 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
28264 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
28265 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
28266 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
28268 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
28269 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
28270 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
28271 current guards when picking a new guard.
28272 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
28273 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
28274 when we had more than one pending.
28275 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
28276 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
28277 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
28278 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
28279 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
28280 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
28281 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
28282 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
28283 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
28284 debug the reachability problems better.
28286 o Log / documentation fixes:
28287 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
28288 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
28289 about protocol violations by others.
28290 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
28291 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
28292 about what happened to our old torrc.
28295 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
28297 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
28299 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
28300 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
28301 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
28302 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
28305 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
28307 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
28308 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
28309 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
28310 old ORPort and receive connections.
28311 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
28313 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
28314 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
28315 and network-statuses.
28316 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
28317 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
28318 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
28319 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
28321 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
28324 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
28325 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
28326 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
28329 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
28331 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
28332 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
28333 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
28334 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
28335 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
28338 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
28339 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
28341 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
28342 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
28343 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
28344 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
28345 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
28346 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
28347 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
28348 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
28349 rather than not sending anything back at all.
28350 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
28351 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
28352 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
28353 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
28354 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
28355 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
28356 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
28357 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
28358 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
28359 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
28360 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
28361 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
28362 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
28363 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
28364 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
28365 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
28366 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
28367 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
28368 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
28369 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
28370 default ulimit -n is 1024.
28373 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
28374 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
28375 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
28376 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
28379 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
28381 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
28382 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
28383 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
28384 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
28385 entry guards running these flawed versions.
28386 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
28387 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
28388 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
28389 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
28390 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
28393 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
28394 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
28396 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
28397 and it is confusing some users.
28398 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
28399 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
28400 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
28401 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
28402 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
28405 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
28407 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
28408 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
28409 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
28410 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
28411 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
28412 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
28413 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
28414 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
28415 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
28416 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
28417 dirport is set for now.
28419 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
28420 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
28421 unattached before we fail it?
28422 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
28423 at least this many seconds ago.
28424 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
28425 at least this many seconds ago.
28428 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
28429 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
28430 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
28431 or resolve-wait stream.
28432 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
28433 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
28434 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
28435 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
28436 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
28437 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
28438 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
28439 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
28441 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
28442 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
28443 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
28444 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
28445 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
28446 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
28447 given as hex digests.
28448 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
28449 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
28450 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
28451 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
28452 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
28453 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
28454 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
28455 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
28458 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28459 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
28460 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
28461 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
28462 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
28463 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
28464 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
28465 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
28466 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
28467 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
28468 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
28471 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
28472 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
28473 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
28474 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
28475 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
28476 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
28477 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
28480 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
28481 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
28482 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
28483 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
28484 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
28485 misreading their logs.
28486 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
28487 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
28488 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
28489 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
28490 valid router descriptors.
28491 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
28492 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
28493 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
28494 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
28495 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
28496 silently resetting it to its default.
28497 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
28499 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
28502 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
28503 use clean circuits.
28504 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
28505 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
28506 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
28507 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
28508 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
28510 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
28511 because older Tors do not understand it.
28512 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
28516 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
28517 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
28518 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
28519 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
28520 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
28521 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
28522 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
28523 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
28524 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
28525 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
28526 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
28528 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
28529 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
28530 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
28531 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
28533 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
28534 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
28537 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
28538 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
28539 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
28540 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
28541 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
28542 without getting overloaded.
28543 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
28545 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
28546 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
28547 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
28548 be forward-compatible.
28549 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
28550 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
28551 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
28552 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
28554 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
28555 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
28556 and OR conns to port 443.
28557 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
28558 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
28560 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
28561 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
28562 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
28563 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
28564 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
28565 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
28566 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
28569 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
28570 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28571 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
28572 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
28574 o Other important bugfixes:
28575 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
28576 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
28577 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
28578 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
28580 o Backported features:
28581 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
28582 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
28583 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
28584 without getting overloaded.
28585 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
28586 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
28587 503's whenever they feel busy.
28588 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
28589 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
28590 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
28591 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
28592 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
28595 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
28596 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
28597 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
28598 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
28599 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
28600 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
28601 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
28602 know if the crashes continue.
28603 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
28604 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
28605 seg faults in at least some cases.)
28606 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
28607 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
28608 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
28611 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
28612 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
28613 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
28614 try to be a bit more fair.
28615 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
28616 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
28617 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
28618 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
28619 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
28620 bug that let it go negative.
28621 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
28622 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
28623 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
28624 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
28625 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
28626 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
28627 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
28628 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
28629 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
28630 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
28631 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
28634 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
28636 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
28637 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
28638 service descriptors.
28641 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
28642 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
28643 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
28644 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
28646 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
28647 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
28648 versions *are* still recommended.
28649 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
28650 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
28651 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
28652 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
28653 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
28654 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
28655 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
28656 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
28658 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
28659 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
28660 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
28661 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
28662 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
28663 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
28664 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
28665 on it. Not used by clients yet.
28666 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
28667 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
28668 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
28669 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
28670 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
28671 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
28672 established a circuit.
28673 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
28674 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
28675 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
28676 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
28679 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
28680 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
28681 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
28682 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
28683 quickly enough. Oops.
28684 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
28686 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28687 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
28690 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
28691 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
28692 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
28693 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
28694 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
28695 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
28696 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
28697 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
28698 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
28699 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
28700 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
28701 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
28702 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
28703 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
28704 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
28705 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
28706 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
28709 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
28710 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
28711 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
28712 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
28713 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
28714 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
28715 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
28716 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
28717 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
28718 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
28719 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
28720 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
28721 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
28722 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
28723 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
28724 connections more reliable.
28727 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
28728 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
28729 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
28730 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
28731 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
28732 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
28733 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
28734 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
28735 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
28736 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
28737 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
28738 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
28739 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
28740 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
28744 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
28745 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
28746 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
28747 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
28748 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
28749 need to be uint64_t's.
28750 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
28751 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
28752 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
28754 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
28756 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
28757 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
28758 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
28759 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
28760 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
28761 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
28762 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
28764 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
28765 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
28766 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
28767 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
28768 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
28769 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
28770 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
28771 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
28772 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
28773 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
28774 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
28775 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
28776 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
28779 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
28780 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
28781 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
28782 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
28783 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
28784 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
28785 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
28787 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
28788 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
28789 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
28790 can answer v2 directory requests too.
28791 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
28792 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
28793 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
28794 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
28796 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
28797 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
28798 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
28799 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
28800 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
28801 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
28802 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
28803 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
28804 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
28805 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
28806 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
28807 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
28808 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
28809 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
28810 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
28812 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
28813 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
28816 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
28817 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28818 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
28819 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
28820 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
28821 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
28822 too -- so detect and avoid this.
28823 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
28825 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
28826 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
28827 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
28828 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
28829 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
28830 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
28831 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
28832 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
28833 rendezvous circuits.
28834 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
28836 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28837 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
28838 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
28839 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
28840 advertising it because of hibernation.
28841 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
28842 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
28843 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
28844 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
28845 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
28846 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
28847 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
28848 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
28849 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
28850 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
28851 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
28852 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
28853 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
28854 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
28857 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
28858 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28859 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
28860 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
28861 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
28862 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
28863 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
28864 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
28865 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
28866 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
28867 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
28868 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
28869 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
28870 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
28871 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
28872 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
28873 connections once a week.
28874 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
28875 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
28876 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
28877 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
28878 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
28879 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
28881 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
28882 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
28883 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
28885 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28886 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
28887 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
28888 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
28889 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
28890 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
28891 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
28892 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
28893 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
28894 firewall options forbid.
28895 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
28896 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
28897 can only proxy to certain destinations.
28898 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
28899 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
28900 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
28901 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
28902 aids some statistical attacks.
28903 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
28904 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
28905 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
28906 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
28908 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
28909 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
28910 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
28911 server descriptor sometimes.
28912 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
28913 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
28914 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
28915 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
28916 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
28917 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
28918 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
28919 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
28921 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
28922 case the controller wants to change that too.
28923 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
28924 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
28925 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
28926 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
28928 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
28929 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
28930 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
28932 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
28933 descriptors that they know they will reject.
28935 o Features and updates:
28936 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
28937 significantly faster.
28938 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
28939 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
28940 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
28941 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
28942 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
28943 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
28944 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
28945 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
28946 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
28947 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
28948 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
28949 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
28950 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
28951 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
28952 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
28953 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
28954 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
28955 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
28956 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
28957 as authoritative dirserver.
28958 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
28959 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
28960 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
28963 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
28964 o Usability improvements:
28965 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
28966 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
28968 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
28969 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
28970 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
28972 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
28973 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
28974 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
28975 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
28976 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
28977 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
28978 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
28979 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
28980 memory leaks better.
28981 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
28982 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
28983 their operators to pay close attention.
28984 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
28985 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
28987 o Performance improvements:
28988 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
28989 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
28990 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
28991 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
28992 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
28993 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
28994 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
28995 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
28996 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
28997 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
28998 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
28999 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
29000 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
29001 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
29002 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
29003 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
29004 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
29006 o Security improvements:
29007 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
29008 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
29009 fingerprint of server.
29010 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
29011 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
29012 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
29014 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29015 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
29016 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
29017 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
29018 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
29019 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
29020 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
29021 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
29022 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
29023 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
29024 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
29025 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
29026 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
29027 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
29028 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
29029 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
29030 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
29031 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
29032 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
29033 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
29034 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
29036 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
29037 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
29038 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
29040 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
29041 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
29043 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
29044 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
29045 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
29046 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
29047 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
29048 of the controller protocol.
29049 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
29050 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
29051 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
29054 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
29055 o New features (major):
29056 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
29057 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
29058 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
29059 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
29060 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
29061 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
29062 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
29063 we're using a default DirPort.
29064 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
29066 o New features (minor):
29067 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
29068 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
29069 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
29070 mirrors still cache and serve it).
29071 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
29072 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
29073 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
29074 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
29075 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
29076 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
29077 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
29078 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
29079 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
29080 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
29081 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
29082 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
29083 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
29084 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
29085 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
29087 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
29088 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
29089 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
29090 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
29091 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
29092 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
29093 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
29094 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
29096 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
29097 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
29098 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
29099 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
29100 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
29101 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
29102 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
29103 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
29104 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
29105 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
29107 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
29108 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
29109 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
29110 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
29111 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
29113 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
29114 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
29115 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
29117 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
29118 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
29120 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
29121 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
29122 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
29123 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
29124 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
29125 don't warn twice about the same name.
29126 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
29127 if we've not heard of the server.
29128 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
29129 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
29132 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
29133 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29134 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
29135 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
29136 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
29137 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
29138 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
29139 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
29140 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
29141 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
29142 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
29143 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
29144 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
29145 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
29146 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
29149 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
29150 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
29151 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
29152 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
29153 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
29155 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
29156 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
29157 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
29158 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
29159 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
29160 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
29164 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
29165 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
29166 nickname) is reachable by you.
29167 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
29170 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
29171 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
29172 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
29173 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
29174 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
29175 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
29176 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
29177 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
29178 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
29179 we fail to connect).
29180 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
29181 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
29182 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
29183 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
29185 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
29186 it was self-testing that told us so.
29189 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
29190 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
29191 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
29192 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
29193 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
29194 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
29195 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
29196 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
29197 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
29198 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
29199 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
29200 exit policy using him for any exits.
29201 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
29204 o New controller features/fixes:
29205 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
29206 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
29207 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
29208 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
29209 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
29210 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
29211 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
29212 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
29213 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
29215 o Start on the new directory design:
29216 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
29217 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
29219 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
29220 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
29221 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
29222 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
29224 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
29225 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
29226 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
29227 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
29228 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
29229 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
29230 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
29231 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
29234 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
29235 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
29236 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
29237 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
29238 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
29239 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
29240 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
29241 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
29242 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
29243 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
29245 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
29246 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
29247 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
29248 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
29249 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
29250 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
29251 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
29252 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
29253 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
29255 o Config option changes:
29256 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
29257 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
29258 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
29259 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
29260 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
29261 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
29263 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
29264 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
29265 people have started using them for spam too.
29266 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
29267 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
29268 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
29269 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
29270 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
29271 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
29272 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
29273 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
29274 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
29275 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
29276 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
29277 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
29278 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
29279 services faster on the service end.
29280 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
29281 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
29282 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
29283 it a fair shake next time we try.
29284 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
29285 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
29286 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
29287 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
29288 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
29289 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
29290 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
29291 able to discover them.
29292 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
29293 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
29294 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
29295 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
29296 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
29297 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
29298 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
29299 testing for reachability.
29300 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
29301 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
29303 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
29305 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
29306 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
29309 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
29310 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
29312 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29313 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
29314 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
29315 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
29318 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
29319 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29320 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
29322 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
29323 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
29326 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
29327 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
29330 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
29331 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
29332 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
29333 options, getinfo keys.
29336 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
29337 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29338 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
29339 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
29340 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
29341 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
29342 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
29344 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
29345 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
29349 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
29350 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
29351 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
29353 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
29355 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
29356 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
29357 circuit events and we go offline.
29358 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
29359 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
29360 you don't have enough intro points already.
29362 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
29363 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
29364 many bytes we've used in this time period.
29365 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
29366 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
29367 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
29368 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
29369 enabled by default yet.
29371 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
29372 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
29373 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
29374 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
29375 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
29378 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
29379 o New directory servers:
29380 - tor26 has changed IP address.
29382 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29383 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
29384 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
29385 pthreads libraries.
29386 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
29387 claims its dirport is 0.
29388 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
29389 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
29393 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
29394 o New directory servers:
29395 - tor26 has changed IP address.
29397 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
29398 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
29400 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
29401 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
29402 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
29403 ports that have changed.
29404 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
29406 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
29407 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
29408 Windows-style errno back.
29409 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
29411 want to make it an NT service.
29412 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
29413 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
29414 name, give the full name in our response.
29415 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
29416 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
29417 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
29418 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
29419 pthreads libraries.
29421 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
29422 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
29426 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
29427 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
29428 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
29429 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
29430 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
29433 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
29434 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29435 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
29436 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
29437 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
29438 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
29439 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
29440 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
29443 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
29445 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
29446 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
29447 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
29448 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
29449 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
29450 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
29452 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
29453 temporarily unreachable.
29454 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
29458 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
29459 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
29460 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
29461 our protocol works.
29462 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
29466 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
29467 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
29468 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
29469 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
29470 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
29474 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
29475 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
29476 libevent before 1.1a.
29479 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
29481 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
29482 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
29483 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
29484 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
29485 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
29487 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
29488 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
29489 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
29490 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
29491 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
29492 of CPU time plus memory.
29493 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
29494 normal web requests.
29495 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
29496 tor_lookup_hostname().
29497 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
29498 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
29499 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
29500 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
29501 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
29502 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
29504 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
29505 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
29506 HttpProxyAuthenticator
29507 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
29508 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
29509 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
29511 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
29512 the user asks you to.
29513 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
29514 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
29515 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
29516 their descriptors are being rejected.
29517 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
29521 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
29523 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
29524 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
29525 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
29527 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
29529 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
29531 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
29532 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
29533 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
29534 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
29535 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
29536 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
29537 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
29538 keys) from the exit server's process.
29539 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
29540 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
29541 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
29542 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
29543 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
29544 point at your Tor server.
29545 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
29546 you're not sending a socks reply back.
29549 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
29550 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
29551 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
29552 to make it easier to write controllers.
29555 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
29557 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
29558 installing on Tiger.
29559 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
29560 complain during installation.
29561 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
29562 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
29563 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
29564 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
29565 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
29566 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
29568 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
29569 something more reasonable when first installing.
29570 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
29573 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
29575 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
29576 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
29578 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
29579 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
29580 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
29581 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
29582 when using the default exit policy.
29583 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
29584 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
29585 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
29586 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
29587 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
29588 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
29589 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
29590 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
29591 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
29592 we fetched a new directory.
29593 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
29594 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
29597 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
29598 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
29599 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
29600 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
29601 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
29602 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
29603 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
29604 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
29606 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
29607 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
29608 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
29609 save memory on systems that need to fork.
29610 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
29611 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
29612 is valid without actually launching Tor.
29613 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
29614 rather than just rejecting it.
29617 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
29619 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
29620 we didn't like its cert.
29622 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
29623 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
29624 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
29625 on patch from Adam Langley.
29626 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
29627 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
29628 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
29629 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
29631 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
29632 directory every time you regenerate it.
29633 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
29634 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
29637 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
29638 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
29639 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
29640 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
29641 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
29644 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
29646 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
29647 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
29648 TLS errors better in other situations too.
29649 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
29650 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
29651 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
29652 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
29653 and don't log when you are.
29654 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
29655 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
29657 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
29658 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
29659 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
29660 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
29661 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
29664 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
29665 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
29666 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
29667 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
29668 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
29669 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
29670 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
29671 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
29672 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
29673 nickname+key are allowed.
29674 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
29675 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
29676 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
29677 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
29678 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
29679 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
29680 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
29681 have quite wrong clocks).
29682 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
29683 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
29684 - Efficiency improvements:
29685 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
29686 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
29687 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
29688 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
29689 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
29690 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
29691 lowercase and be done with it.
29692 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
29693 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
29694 to abandon partially built circuits.
29695 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
29696 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
29698 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
29700 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
29701 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
29702 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
29703 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
29705 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
29706 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
29708 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
29709 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
29710 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
29711 obeying the exit policy internally.
29712 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
29713 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
29715 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
29716 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
29717 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
29718 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
29720 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
29721 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
29722 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
29723 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
29724 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
29726 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
29727 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
29728 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
29729 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
29730 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
29731 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
29732 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
29733 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
29734 descriptors we just dropped.
29735 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
29736 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
29737 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
29738 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
29739 artificially capped at 500kB.
29742 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
29743 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
29744 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
29745 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
29746 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
29747 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
29748 busy for more than 100 seconds.
29751 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
29752 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
29753 - Fixes on reachability detection:
29754 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
29755 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
29756 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
29757 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
29758 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
29759 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
29760 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
29761 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
29762 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
29763 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
29764 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
29765 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
29766 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
29767 server not already connected to them.
29768 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
29769 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
29770 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
29772 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
29774 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
29775 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
29776 are in a different state than they actually are.
29777 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
29778 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
29779 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
29781 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
29782 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
29783 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
29785 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
29786 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
29787 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
29788 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
29789 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
29790 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
29791 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
29793 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
29794 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
29795 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
29796 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
29799 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
29800 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
29801 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
29802 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
29803 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
29804 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
29805 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
29806 creating actual system users.
29807 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
29808 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
29812 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
29814 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
29815 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
29816 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
29817 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
29818 hidden services better.
29819 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
29821 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
29822 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
29823 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
29824 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
29825 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
29826 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
29827 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
29828 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
29829 patch by Matt Edman).
29830 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
29831 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
29832 required exit node for certain sites.
29833 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
29834 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
29835 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
29836 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
29837 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
29838 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
29839 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
29840 rather than just "success" or "failure".
29841 - A more sane version numbering system. See
29842 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
29843 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
29844 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
29846 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
29847 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
29848 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
29849 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
29850 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
29851 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
29852 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
29854 o Robustness/stability fixes:
29855 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
29856 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
29857 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
29859 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
29860 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
29861 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
29863 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
29864 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
29865 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
29867 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
29868 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
29869 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
29870 that will want high uptime circuits.
29871 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
29872 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
29873 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
29874 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
29875 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
29876 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
29877 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
29878 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
29879 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
29880 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
29881 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
29882 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
29883 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
29884 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
29885 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
29886 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
29887 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
29888 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
29889 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
29890 when we try to launch one.
29891 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
29892 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
29893 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
29894 "ShutdownWaitLength".
29895 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
29896 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
29897 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
29898 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
29899 and to take errno into account where possible.
29902 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
29903 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
29904 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
29905 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
29906 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
29907 file more reasonable.
29908 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
29909 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
29910 addresses -- it won't.
29911 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
29912 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
29913 for google.com" problem.
29914 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
29915 so it's not just "unknown platform".
29916 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
29917 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
29918 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
29919 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
29921 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
29922 they could use instead.
29923 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
29924 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
29925 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
29926 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
29927 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
29928 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
29929 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
29930 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
29931 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
29933 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
29937 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
29938 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
29940 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
29941 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
29942 private-IP addresses.
29943 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
29944 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
29946 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
29947 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
29948 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
29949 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
29950 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
29951 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
29952 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
29954 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
29955 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
29956 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
29957 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
29958 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
29959 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
29960 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
29961 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
29963 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
29965 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
29966 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
29967 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
29968 whether the server is hibernating.
29971 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
29972 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
29973 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
29974 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
29975 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
29976 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
29977 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
29978 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
29979 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
29980 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
29981 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
29982 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
29983 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
29984 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
29985 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
29987 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
29988 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
29989 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
29990 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
29991 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
29992 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
29993 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
29994 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
29995 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
29996 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
29997 existing torrc files.
29998 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
30001 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
30002 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
30003 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
30004 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
30005 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
30006 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
30007 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
30008 the win32 SYSTEM account.
30009 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
30010 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
30011 file descriptors available.
30012 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
30013 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
30014 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
30017 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
30018 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
30019 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
30020 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
30022 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
30023 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
30024 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
30025 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
30026 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
30028 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
30029 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
30030 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
30031 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
30032 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
30033 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
30034 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
30035 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
30036 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
30037 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
30038 800kB/s of capacity.
30039 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
30042 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
30043 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
30044 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
30045 need as much processor time.
30046 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
30047 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
30048 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
30049 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
30050 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
30051 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
30052 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
30053 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
30054 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
30055 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
30056 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
30057 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
30059 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
30060 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
30061 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
30062 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
30063 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
30064 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
30065 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
30068 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
30069 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
30070 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
30072 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
30073 style address, then we'd crash.
30074 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
30075 a dirserver is broken.
30076 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
30078 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
30079 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
30080 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
30082 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
30083 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
30084 name out of the warning/assert messages.
30085 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
30086 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
30087 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
30089 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
30090 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
30091 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
30093 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
30095 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
30096 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
30097 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
30098 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
30099 values at once couldn't work.
30100 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
30101 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
30102 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
30103 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
30104 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
30105 they can handle any number of routers.
30106 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
30107 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
30108 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
30109 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
30110 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
30111 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
30112 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
30113 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
30114 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
30117 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
30118 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
30119 - Make hibernation actually work.
30120 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
30121 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
30122 don't use the stream status code.
30125 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
30127 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
30128 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
30130 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
30133 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
30134 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
30135 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
30136 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
30137 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
30138 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
30139 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
30140 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
30141 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
30142 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
30144 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
30145 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
30146 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
30147 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
30148 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
30149 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
30150 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
30151 - Make unit tests work on win32.
30154 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
30155 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
30156 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
30158 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
30159 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
30160 than just chopping them off.
30161 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
30163 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
30164 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
30165 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
30166 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
30167 right after sending the begin cell.
30168 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
30169 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
30170 exit nodes too. Oops.
30173 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
30174 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
30175 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
30176 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
30177 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
30178 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
30179 the user knows which one it's talking about.
30180 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
30181 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
30182 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
30185 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
30186 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
30187 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
30188 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
30190 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
30192 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
30193 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
30194 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
30196 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
30197 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
30198 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
30199 Clip rather than rejecting.
30200 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
30201 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
30204 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
30205 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
30206 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
30207 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
30209 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
30212 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
30213 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
30214 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
30215 win32 socket errors better.
30217 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
30218 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
30221 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
30222 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
30223 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
30224 so we don't see those messages days later.
30226 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
30227 - Make tor-resolve work again.
30228 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
30229 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
30232 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
30233 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
30234 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
30235 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
30237 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
30238 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
30239 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
30242 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
30243 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
30244 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
30245 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
30246 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
30247 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
30248 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
30249 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
30250 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
30252 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
30253 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
30254 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
30255 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
30257 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
30258 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
30261 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
30262 hibernation properties by
30263 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
30264 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
30265 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
30266 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
30267 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
30268 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
30269 get back to normal.)
30270 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
30272 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
30273 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
30274 to fill the last cell completely.
30275 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
30278 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
30279 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
30280 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
30281 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
30282 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
30283 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
30284 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
30285 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
30286 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
30287 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
30288 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
30290 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
30291 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
30292 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
30293 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
30294 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
30295 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
30296 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
30297 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
30299 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
30300 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
30301 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
30302 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
30303 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
30304 have it on start-up.
30307 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
30308 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
30309 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
30310 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
30311 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
30312 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
30313 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
30314 configuration to torrc.
30315 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
30316 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
30317 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
30318 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
30319 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
30321 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
30322 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
30323 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
30324 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
30325 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
30326 log more informatively.
30327 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
30328 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
30329 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
30330 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
30331 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
30332 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
30333 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
30334 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
30335 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
30336 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
30337 from each other, to hinder linkability.
30340 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
30341 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
30342 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
30343 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
30344 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
30345 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
30346 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
30348 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
30349 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
30350 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
30351 they ran out of file descriptors.
30352 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
30353 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
30354 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
30355 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
30356 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
30357 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
30358 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
30360 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
30363 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
30364 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
30365 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
30366 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
30367 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
30368 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
30369 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
30370 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
30371 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
30372 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
30373 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
30374 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
30375 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
30376 with the control port.
30377 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
30378 use in authenticating to the control interface.
30379 - New log format in config:
30380 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
30381 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
30384 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
30385 from their dirserver.
30386 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
30388 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
30389 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
30390 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
30391 them act more like real nodes.
30392 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
30393 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
30395 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
30396 nickname to its identity key.
30397 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
30398 not on the command line.
30399 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
30400 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
30401 1024) file descriptors.
30403 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
30404 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
30406 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
30407 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
30408 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
30411 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
30412 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
30413 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
30414 exit policy, not reject *:*.
30415 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
30416 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
30417 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
30418 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
30419 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
30420 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
30421 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
30424 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
30425 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
30426 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
30427 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
30428 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
30429 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
30430 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
30433 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
30434 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
30435 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
30436 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
30437 the ones we find in directories.)
30438 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
30440 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
30441 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
30443 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
30444 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
30445 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
30447 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
30448 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
30449 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
30450 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
30452 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
30453 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
30454 any more exit policy lines.
30457 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
30458 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
30459 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
30460 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
30461 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
30462 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
30463 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
30464 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
30465 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
30466 will be able to get a directory.
30467 - Http proxy support
30468 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
30469 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
30470 be routed through this host.
30471 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
30472 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
30473 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
30474 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
30477 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
30479 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
30480 clients/servers with an open dirport.
30481 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
30482 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
30483 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
30484 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
30485 intermittent connections.
30486 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
30487 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
30489 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
30490 in reporting stats locally.
30491 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
30492 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
30493 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
30496 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
30498 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
30499 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
30502 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
30504 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
30505 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
30506 if you don't want it open.
30507 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
30508 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
30509 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
30510 intermittent connections.
30511 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
30513 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
30514 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
30515 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
30516 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
30517 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
30518 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
30519 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
30520 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
30521 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
30522 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
30523 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
30524 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
30525 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
30526 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
30527 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
30528 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
30531 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
30532 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
30533 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
30534 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
30535 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
30537 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
30539 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
30540 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
30541 specified in HTTP 1.0.
30542 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
30543 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
30544 than once per minute.
30545 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
30546 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
30549 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
30550 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
30553 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
30554 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
30555 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
30556 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
30559 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
30560 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
30562 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
30563 don't put it into the client dns cache.
30564 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
30565 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
30566 until we get our next directory.
30568 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
30569 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
30570 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
30571 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
30572 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
30573 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
30574 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
30575 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
30576 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
30577 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
30578 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
30580 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
30582 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
30583 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
30585 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
30586 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
30587 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
30589 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
30591 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
30592 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
30593 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
30594 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
30595 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
30596 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
30597 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
30598 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
30601 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
30602 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
30603 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
30604 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
30607 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
30608 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
30609 ask them to resolve the host "".
30612 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
30613 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
30614 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
30615 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
30616 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
30617 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
30618 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
30619 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
30620 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
30621 clients don't use this yet.)
30622 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
30623 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
30624 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
30625 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
30626 for pointing out this bug.)
30627 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
30628 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
30629 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
30630 kazaa, gnutella ports.
30631 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
30633 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
30634 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
30635 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
30636 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
30637 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
30638 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
30639 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
30640 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
30641 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
30642 wolf unpredictably.
30643 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
30644 that's still handshaking.
30645 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
30646 you'll choose it for your path.
30647 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
30648 end relay cell, etc.
30649 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
30650 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
30651 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
30654 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
30655 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
30657 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
30658 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
30659 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
30660 list to decide who's running or verified.
30661 - Bugfixes and features:
30662 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
30663 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
30664 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
30665 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
30666 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
30667 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
30669 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
30670 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
30671 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
30672 know you might want to get it verified.
30673 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
30676 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
30678 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
30679 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
30680 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
30681 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
30683 o Protocol changes:
30684 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
30685 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
30686 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
30687 hadn't heard of before.
30690 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
30691 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
30692 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
30693 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
30694 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
30695 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
30696 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
30697 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
30698 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
30699 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
30700 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
30701 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
30702 - Directory caching.
30703 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
30704 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
30705 directory they've pulled down.
30706 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
30707 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
30708 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
30709 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
30710 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
30711 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
30712 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
30714 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
30715 This isn't used yet.
30716 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
30717 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
30718 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
30719 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
30720 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
30721 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
30722 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
30723 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
30724 - File and name management:
30725 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
30726 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
30728 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
30729 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
30730 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
30731 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
30732 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
30733 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
30734 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
30736 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
30737 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
30738 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
30739 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
30740 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
30742 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
30743 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
30744 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
30745 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
30746 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
30747 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
30748 - New docs in the tarball:
30750 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
30753 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
30754 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
30755 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
30758 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
30759 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
30760 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
30763 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
30764 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
30767 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
30768 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
30769 - Make it build on Win32 again.
30770 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
30771 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
30775 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
30777 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
30778 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
30779 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
30780 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
30781 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
30782 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
30783 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
30784 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
30785 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
30786 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
30789 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
30792 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
30793 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
30794 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
30795 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
30797 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
30798 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
30799 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
30801 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
30802 hidden service per 15-minute period.
30803 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
30804 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
30805 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
30806 o Fixes for security bugs:
30807 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
30808 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
30809 a trusted dirserver.
30811 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
30812 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
30813 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
30814 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
30815 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
30816 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
30817 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
30818 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
30819 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
30820 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
30822 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
30823 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
30824 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
30825 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
30827 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
30828 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
30829 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
30830 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
30831 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
30832 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
30833 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
30834 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
30835 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
30836 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
30837 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
30838 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
30839 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
30842 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
30843 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
30844 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
30845 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
30848 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
30849 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
30850 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
30851 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
30852 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
30853 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
30854 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
30858 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
30859 [version bump only]
30862 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
30863 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
30864 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
30865 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
30866 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
30868 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
30871 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
30872 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
30873 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
30874 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
30875 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
30876 o Better debugging for tls errors
30877 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
30878 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
30879 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
30880 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
30881 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
30882 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
30883 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
30884 o win32's close can't close a socket.
30887 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
30888 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
30889 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
30890 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
30891 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
30892 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
30893 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
30894 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
30895 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
30896 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
30897 just close the circ.
30898 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
30899 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
30900 (this was quite rare).
30903 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
30904 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
30905 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
30906 if you decrypted them correctly.
30907 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
30908 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
30909 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
30912 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
30913 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
30914 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
30915 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
30916 a second one and it works.
30917 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
30918 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
30919 alice would just have to wait to time out.
30920 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
30921 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
30922 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
30923 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
30924 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
30925 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
30926 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
30927 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
30928 i'd still like to find the bug though.
30929 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
30931 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
30935 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
30936 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
30937 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
30938 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
30939 he retries a couple of times
30940 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
30941 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
30942 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
30943 too long (they were sticking around forever).
30944 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
30948 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
30949 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
30950 - make hup work again
30951 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
30952 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
30953 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
30954 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
30955 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
30956 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
30958 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
30959 o changes from 0.0.5:
30960 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
30961 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
30962 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
30963 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
30964 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
30966 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
30967 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
30968 in-memory directories too
30971 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
30972 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
30975 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
30977 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
30978 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
30979 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
30980 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
30983 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
30984 [version bump only]
30987 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
30988 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
30990 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
30991 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
30992 but that aren't warnings
30995 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
30996 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
30997 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
30998 the dns farm to do it.
30999 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
31000 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
31002 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
31003 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
31004 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
31007 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
31008 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
31009 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
31010 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
31011 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
31012 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
31013 expect it to have a nickname.
31014 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
31015 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
31018 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
31019 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
31023 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
31024 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
31025 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
31026 - include missing header fcntl.h
31027 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
31028 - deal with hardware word alignment
31029 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
31030 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
31031 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
31032 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
31033 by kill -USR1 currently.
31034 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
31035 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
31036 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
31039 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
31040 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
31041 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
31044 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
31046 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
31047 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
31048 - And fix a few endian issues.
31051 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
31053 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
31054 try that circuit again: try a new one.
31055 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
31056 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
31057 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
31058 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
31059 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
31060 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
31062 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
31063 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
31064 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
31066 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
31068 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
31069 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
31070 side isn't reading right then.
31071 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
31072 RecommendedVersions
31073 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
31074 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
31075 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
31078 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
31080 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
31081 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
31084 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
31088 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
31090 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
31091 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
31092 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
31093 connection is finished.
31094 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
31095 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
31096 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
31097 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
31098 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
31099 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
31100 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
31101 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
31102 rather than warn and continue.
31103 - Make --version work
31104 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
31107 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
31109 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
31110 knows it's working.
31111 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
31112 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
31114 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
31115 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
31116 so you can collect coredumps there.
31118 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
31119 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
31120 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
31121 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
31122 dns cache actually gets populated.
31123 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
31124 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
31125 end cell down it first.
31126 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
31127 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
31130 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
31132 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
31133 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
31135 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
31136 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
31137 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
31138 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
31139 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
31140 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
31142 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
31144 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
31145 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
31146 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
31147 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
31148 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
31149 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
31151 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
31152 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
31155 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
31157 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
31158 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
31159 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
31160 tor. It even has a man page.
31161 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
31162 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
31163 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
31164 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
31166 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
31168 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
31171 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
31173 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
31174 it, apt-getters. :)
31175 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
31176 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
31177 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
31178 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
31179 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
31180 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
31181 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
31182 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
31183 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
31184 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
31185 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
31187 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
31188 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
31191 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
31193 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
31194 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
31197 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
31199 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
31200 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
31201 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
31202 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
31203 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
31204 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
31205 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
31206 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
31207 logfile so you know it's working.
31208 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
31209 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
31212 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
31214 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
31215 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
31216 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
31219 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
31221 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
31222 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
31223 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
31226 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
31227 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
31228 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
31230 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
31231 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
31233 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
31234 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
31235 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
31237 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
31238 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
31242 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
31244 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
31245 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
31246 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
31249 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
31250 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
31251 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
31252 - Add port ranges to exit policies
31253 - Add a conservative default exit policy
31254 - Warn if you're running tor as root
31255 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
31256 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
31257 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
31258 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
31260 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
31263 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
31264 o Robustness and bugfixes:
31265 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
31266 really screw things up.
31267 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
31269 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
31270 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
31272 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
31273 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
31274 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
31275 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
31276 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
31277 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
31280 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
31283 - Change default loglevel to warn.
31284 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
31285 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
31287 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
31290 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
31291 o Robustness and bugfixes:
31292 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
31293 - to get ownership/permissions right
31294 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
31295 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
31296 pull down a directory again
31297 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
31298 causing server crashes
31299 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
31300 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
31301 - exit if bind() fails
31302 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
31303 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
31304 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
31305 - fix minor bias in PRNG
31306 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
31309 - Wrote the design document (woo)
31311 o Circuit building and exit policies:
31312 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
31314 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
31315 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
31316 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
31317 exists, rather than failing
31318 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
31319 which AP connections are standing by
31320 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
31321 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
31322 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
31324 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
31325 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
31328 - APPort is now called SocksPort
31329 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
31331 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
31332 hardcoded (for dirservers)
31333 - Reloads config on HUP
31334 - Usage info on -h or --help
31335 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
31338 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
31339 o General stability:
31340 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
31341 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
31342 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
31343 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
31344 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
31345 to take down the network when I approve a new router
31346 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
31349 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
31350 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
31352 o Autoconf improvements:
31353 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
31354 - Make install now works
31355 - create var/lib/tor on make install
31356 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
31357 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
31359 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
31360 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
31361 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
31362 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup